It's time for me to bid a fond farewell to lemm.ee, and our most excellent host sunaurus.

Thank you for your hard work keeping the server on, and welcoming, to so many of us, and thank you too for all the work you've done to improve the fediverse as a whole. We could not have asked for a better admin and owner, and the fediverse will be the poorer for the loss of this place.

Lemm.ee will be long remembered as a stand out server, a bright star in the fediverse.

Yes, all these not yet - but I don't have much time to edit...

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crosspost from https://piefed.social/post/838399

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Thanks for everything, it was a pleasure while it lasted, this will be the last time I post here, as I’ve just migrated instances (not saying where on purpose).

If you are still looking for an alternative, https://lemmy.zip/ is a solid choice. Similar moderation policy than lemm.ee.

Monthly reports: https://lemmy.zip/post/39959863

Lots of lemm.ee users moving there: https://lemmy.zip/post/40323214

If you are in the UK (where lemmy.zip is geoblocked due to UK laws), https://feddit.uk/ is a good option.

You can export your subscriptions, blocks and saves from "Settings - Import/Export settings" and then import them on your new account.

When the server closes, the communities will stay visible on other servers, but any new content posted to them won't federate to other servers. However, users on remote instances do not receive any indication of this.

As a result, lemm.ee communities will live on in a sort of "undead" state. (Example: https://sh.itjust.works/c/bertstrips@feddit.de (feddit.de shut down about a year ago))

To address this, I would recommend the following actions:

• Set each community to "only moderators can post"
• Include a link to wherever community decides to move to in a pinned thread and the sidebar of each community.
• Prepend the string "[Retired]" or "[Closed]" to the start of the display name of each community. This way, for interfaces where the name may be truncated due to length, it will still be obvious that the community is closed. Additionally, community names starting with “[” will appear in a separate section of an alphabetized list, setting them apart from the rest of the communities.

These steps will inform anyone who comes across the communities after the server closes on what the situation is and prevent them from inadvertently posting to a "dead community".

see title

Just a heads up for anyone moving to new instances, though you can migrate your community subscriptions, any subscriptions to communities hosted on Lemmy.ee will break as well because they’ll no longer exist. Keep an eye out for where they end up so you can update accordingly.

https://lemmy.zip/post/40323214

The issue: https://lemmy.world/post/30770310

I'm one of the moderators but my account is on .world and don't have any lemm.ee one to use, I need someone inside to be made Mod and then help me move the community.

the guide specifically say:

[ You can export your settings at https://lemm.ee/settings to take them with you to another instance. ]

This is my current understanding of the situation:

• The admins are no longer interested in running the instance, due to increasing demand, missing moderation features and waves of abuse from external actors.
• Transferring the instance to someone else is a complicated issue. Even though there is not a large amount of private information in Lemmy's database, you can not simply transfer the trust the users placed in the original admin to the new owner.
• Lemmy still does not provide an easy way to migrate accounts

Given all the above, shutting down the instance seems to be the natural course of action. I'd like to propose an alternative: freeze the instance activity and keep it in some form of "read-only" mode until Lemmy matures.

What would that require?

0. Take the instance down (no more incoming activities)
1. Run a script that generates static json files for every actor (user, community), federated object (post, comment, report) and activity (like/dislike votes, announce activities, etc)
2. Set up a static site to serve all that JSON.
3. Take the media on pict-rs and move to some long-term back up system.
4. (Optional, but could be helpful in the future) allow users to checkout the private keys of their own user and community actors.

This won't help solve the current problems and it wouldn't help with the users who now will have to move away to a new instance, but it could eventually help for users who want to restore the activity on a new server.

I've been experimenting with an implementation for Decentralized Identifiers for ActivityPub that can make it possible for people to move servers but maintain their identity (similar to bluesky's PLC directory), so perhaps we could have a future where users can fully migrate their accounts from server to server without requiring intervention from admins.

Consider editing a few of your top posts to an archived version.

This was one of the best lemmy instances.
Thank you for all that you have done.

I like how lemm.ee didn't defederated very many people and maintained a chill vibe in terms of moderation.

What instances have similar vibe?

Edit: I been looking into it and seems that an instance with a similar outlook on federation and not full of power tripping admins censoring is hilariouschaos.com

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/45876492

Context: I tried to use the Piefed migration feature to migrate !barcelona@lemm.ee to !barcelona@piefed.social

https://piefed.social/c/barcelona now exists, with all the existing posts there, as well as the icon and description.

It even moved some subscribers (there are around 100 now), from what I understand those were Piefed subscribers that got automatically moved.

The one caveat is that from Lemmy instances, the community doesn't have show old posts (see https://lemm.ee/c/barcelona@piefed.social), but if you were restarting a community from scratch you wouldn't have access to your old posts anyway.

This ensure that at least the posts are transferred to a community on an active instance, which is probably the main concern for lemm.ee communities at the moment.

Despite its challenges lemm.ee will forever hold a special place inside my heart. When I signed up to lemm.ee I was younger, more aggressive. Less mature. I did many things to hurt people, I didn't realize that it was because I myself was hurting inside, it took me far longer to realize that. And even though it was communities on lemmy.blahaj.zone who helped me find myself. I still feel that I owe some of it to this instance who gave me a home here when no one else would've. Thank you to everyone here who tolerated the rude and aggressive young man I used to be, so I could finally come out as the woman I always was, so I could realize the pain I always had but never knew I had. And for that I want to say thanks to lemm.ee. lemm.ee wasn't just a server, it was a community. I hope I can have new and joyful experiences on lemmy.blahaj.zone, but no place will feel more like home to me than this place. Farewell lemm.ee. You will be missed.

Even though it ultimately didn't work out, thanks to those who worked hard to keep the instance running despite technical and administrative issues. I did notice that the instance was very good about being up and running consistently.

It's too bad that they couldn't ultimately support the platform in terms of moderation issues, but people are people. I can't imagine what trying to keep this all under control is like. Must be like herding lolcats. Thanks for giving it a try and ultimately making sure the platform would not be misused despite the modeation difficulties.

del

since lemm.ee is slated to be gone soon, does anyone know of any other instances with similar policies regarding defederation? i've always loved how i can follow communities basically wherever from here. it's why i chose here over elsewhere. i just wanna be able to curate my own feed, but most big instances seem to have all these complicated beefs that mean i'd lose access to some communities if i moved there.

In the Post its said that the Admins got burned out because of some People and their Views. Can we see their views in their deleted post please? Is it overcensoring or legitimate?

is this real

https://lemm.ee/post/56789435
Updating the timestamp doesn't seem to have propagated properly.