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submitted 1 week 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] 19 points 1 week ago

as someone who barely understands this whole fediverse stuff and had a difficult enough time just choosing and getting into an instance after leaving reddit, what does this mean for me?

is my account and all its posts, comments, activity and bookmarks just gonna be gone?

can that stuff be imported into a different instance?

this sounds like a huge pain in the ass, and my plan in picking a bigger instance in the hope it wouldnt just go off the rails or shut down apparently backfired.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

People seem to want to overcomplicate the fediverse. Think of instances like independent old-school internet forums each with their own mods and subforums. You pick the one you want to participate in and sign up. Yeah, you can pick more than one, and of course you have to sign up for each one independently of the other. They do not share accounts. Each forum is independent.

The big difference is that each forum can “ally” itself with another forum and your comments and posts are shared and saved among the allies, members of the other forums can interact with you because their comments are shared back to yours.

So in this case one forum (lemm.ee) shuts down, but all the shared info will still exist on the other forums, it doesn't get deleted from the allied forums. It’s just not accessible to the OP on lemm.ee anymore because the original account and forum are gone.

I think saved bookmarks that are saved on an account will no longer work unless your app saves them externally.

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Such a shame. 💔

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago
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[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

Well that's sudden and unexpected. Was there any calls for admins? I'm sort of surprised that lemm.ee couldn't find enough volunteers with their sizable user base.

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

That is unfortunate :( they were one of the instances I could easily recommend to new users. Sad to see them go, but I get it. Moderation is hard job

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Very sad to hear but totally understandable. Unfortunately, this will make the centralization of lemmy world even worse.

How much effort is it actually to host a small instance? I am thinking about hosting one mostly for my self. Mainly because I am interested in the technology. Also my country doesn't have one so that could be a topic too if there is some interest. But hearing this I am not so sure anymore. I can't put many hours into it each week just to keep it running.

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Forgive me, I’m still not sure what this means. Is this site just dead at the end of the month?

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Dear lemm.ee and the wonderful admin,

I'm sad to see you go, but thank you, sincerely, for being the springboard that allowed me to dive into the refreshing waters of Lemmy.

Stay golden, pony boy

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Big thanks to lemm.ee, great job to the whole team

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Kinda scary that the threadi (??) instance with the (probably) second-highest active users struggled enough to warrant a shutdown :(

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Gonna miss it here. The admins were chill as hell and so were the communities hosted here. Especially the car one.

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

On the topic of admjn burnout, I find it ridiculous that we choose to put so much burden on instance and community admins. Why don't people just utilize their block functions instead of expecting admins to clean up bad posts and users as fast as possible?

Not saying admins should do nothing, but it should be sufficient for an admin to only do what's absolutely necessary to keep the instance alive (including removal of illegal content). Anything else should be considered extra credit and no one should be entertained complaining about it.

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Very unfortunate, lemm.ee had a real promise of being a flagship lemmy instance.

Bit of an off topic question though, as someone who really has no knowledge on software development, what are the chances lemmy as a whole could fork?

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