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submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/65824884

Hey everyone

We’re really sorry to say this, but lemm.ee will be shutting down on June 30, 2025.

What you need to know

As of now:

  • New user registrations are disabled
  • Creating new communities is disabled

What you should do:

  • You can export your settings at https://lemm.ee/settings to take them with you to another instance.
  • If you're moving to another instance, consider adding a note to your lemm.ee profile with your new username. Your old profile will still be visible from other instances even after we go offline.
  • Alternatively, if you want to delete your lemm.ee profile, now is the best time to do it, so the deletion can federate out before we go offline.
  • If you're one of the folks supporting us with a recurring donation, please remember to cancel it (Ko-Fi donations should have been cancelled automatically already). Our leftover funds are already enough to cover our bills for next month, so we can keep things running without any more support.

Because of how Lemmy is built, everything posted on lemm.ee will still be accessible from other instances, even after we go offline.

Why this is happening

The key reason is that we just don’t have enough people on the admin team to keep the place running. Most of the admin team has stepped down, mostly due to burnout, and finding replacements hasn’t worked out.

The sad reality is that while there are a lot of great people on Lemmy, there are also some who use the platform to attack others, stir up conflict, or actively try to undermine the project. Admins are volunteers who deal with the latter group on a constant basis, this takes a mental toll. Please understand why our admins chose to step down, and be kind to the admins on whatever instance you decide to join.


We know this sucks. We're genuinely sorry it’s ending like this. Thank you to everyone who spent time here and helped make it better.

– lemm.ee team

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 17 hours ago

Thank you and the admin team, past and present, for their time and care.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 19 hours ago

Damn, even if it was to be excepted with how the admin issue was evolving, it's still sad.

But i guess the strengh of the fediverse come from the fact that such an issue can happen without impacting the entire lemmy community as a whole.

I'm just worried that the lack of moderation becomes a recurrent issue in the future of lemmy with the userbase growth and the lack of revenue.

I wish best luck for communities moderators and EE users!

[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

What's really disappointing is that I just made my Lemm.ee account because Lemmy.One had announced they were closing down. Kinda disheartening to make a new account only for the new instance to also shutdown.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

That's just life on the Internet/fediverse in general, there's a constant churn of the small websites/instances as people inevitably burn out. You gotta be mentally prepared for it. I'm really sad since .ee was one of the few good instances that federated with the unpopular ones too

The only solution is improvements to the protocol so migrating instances is less painful. A different form of identity (key-based rather than domain based) would be cool to let us keep handles across instances

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Oh so it's your fault then. Please stop ruining instances

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago
[-] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

NGL, I'm pretty sad to lose this handle.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

I also had just joined Lemm.ee, barely over a month ago. I was really starting to enjoy it when they posted the news. Am disheartened, for sure.

[-] [email protected] 44 points 1 day ago

It was the first foray into the fediverse and helped wean me off reddit. Sad to see it go.

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[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The settings import / export feature is extremely cool.

Reminds me of the many times I was banned from reddit for no good reason and then had to reset every one of my subs. So much easier, and just goes to back up the decentralized philosophy of lemmy.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago

Please say it ain't so. I know it's hard work, but hang in there. The trolling is on hyperdrive now so that people don't act at this critical moment. Reddit sold out because of Elon Musk, and there is a new need for Lemmy because of it. I would forgive you if you did ads or used AI to moderate. The point is, either we fight the trolls online from the safety of our homes or we will have to deal with them in real life. Trust me, you don't want that. These are real people with a sick agenda, they are 1000 times worse in the flesh. If you need help, PM me. I'm sure others will step up to the plate. Anyone here willing to help Lemmy, please say you will in the comments.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago
[-] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

As someone new to Lemmy, thanks for asking this. I just joined lemm.ee from a Reddit link, and I don't know all the different flavors of the different domains.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

I just moved to lemmy.zip.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

I'd recommend going to lemmy.zip or lemmy.ca. They work almost exactly the same as lemm.ee, and you can interact with the same content.

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[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago

I’ve only been on Lemmy for a year, but this feels pretty significant. How do we prevent this from happening to other instances? Or do we not see it as a huge problem if we assume most active users will migrate to other Lemmy instances?

Also side note, I think Voyager defaults to lemm.ee.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 3 hours ago

How do we prevent this from happening to other instances?

We don't, and we can't. What we need is to stop acting like Actors/People/Groups are single points homed on a single instance. They should be a ring of mirrored instance entities, so the "source" Actor and content are still there when one instance drops out of the ring. Everything is already getting copied around, we're just missing out on the biggest value of that: RAID for identities.

Ie, if I make my accounts on three sites, those should all be me, and it doesn't matter to the fediverse which one I use at any given moment. Same for communities.

That's real federation, not this ramshackle heap of points of failure where we just hope we don't individually get bit too often by shutdowns, even though shutdowns are completely inevitable.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

Normalising helping the instances out I guess, Lemmy acts more like a group/commune and it thrives when people step up to do more than their peers at their own expense to benefit everyone

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

I suppose we should normalize lemmy instances closing new registrations, to keep the user count at a manageable level for the admins.

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Please be aware that being an admin is unfortunately quite a thankless job - if you’re doing your job well, then most people won’t even realize you’re doing anything. OTOH, if you make mistakes, there will likely be many users calling you out in public. The main motivation for joining the admin team would need to be a desire to help build and maintain this instance as a great home for yourself and others.

lemm.ee admins 4 months ago

Being an admin is a job and deserves pay. We don't have an infinite supply of good people to deal with an infinite supply of AI-generated trolling. That means we need donations in the short term, and to consider paid memberships in the long term.

Ads won't work at all because we're all using open source clients and browsers with Ublock. And even if they did, we know where that leads.

Evil suggestion: lock minor features behind pay walls, like profile pictures or bolding their name in comments. There are more people who will pay to look cool than there are people who will inconspicuously donate.

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[-] [email protected] 57 points 1 day ago

I literally just woke up and opened Lemmy to see this. As a lemm.ee user this is sad news but I respect the decision of all those involved as they navigate this

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[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago

aww man, this is actually depressing. Hope Lemmy as a whole grows back better after this blows over. o7

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

This is sad, but also not unexpected. I'd noticed a lack of engagement from their admin team for a while, and very often they wouldn't respond to reports. Still sad to see them go, and also slightly worrying since there are a lot of active communities on there and many many users.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

they were asking for admins right around the time i joined lemmy, after a reddit purge.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

So long, and thanks for all the fish! o7

[-] [email protected] 299 points 2 days ago

The OP has comments disabled and it didn't seem right to not say thank you and goodbye.

To the entire team past and present at lemm.ee- Thank you for the time and resources you poured into this platform. You will undoubtedly be missed.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

I'll need some time to find where to migrate, if at all. Lemm.ee was very well managed and I would've gladly volunteered to help out. My bad for not paying closer attention sooner.

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