Sad, my first account was on this instance... although I hardly ever used it.

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.

I have mostly just lurked here and wanted to come out of my shell to say thank you, admins, for all your hard work on this instance. You did a great job running this instance and I'll miss being the goblin hiding in the corner here.

Best of luck with your next endeavors.

Oof owie, my instance

Managing a federated network comes with a lot of responsibility.

Shiiiit. What's the easiest way to migrate all my communities quickly???

That’s depressing news, but I get it.

Any suggestions on alternative instances?

That is sad to hear. Thanks for the all the work admins.

Thanks for all your work, you ran a great instance and I appreciate all the effort you put into it

This suuuucks. We need another big, general instance that doesn't defed everyone. But I get it, being an admin sounds like a lot of work or I would do it lol. Plus I don't have place for a server around here. Or do most admins just buy space from the cloud?

Thanks for your time. Take care of yourselves.

Sad to hear this. I liked the people I’ve met from lemm.ee and the hands-off approach to defederation that the instance had.

Damn, it was like the 2/3rd most active instance

https://lemmyverse.net/ to search for a new instance

The double edged sword of not defederating from other instances is that the worst instaces that most block will use your space to keep shoveling their bullshit to more people.

It creats a lot of extra work for the admins/mods

Now is a good time to check out PieFed.

It also has much better mod tools, so it will make life easier for mods

Thanks, admins, your efforts and patience have been greatly appreciated.

Farewell Lemm.ee, it was a good two years.

I was here for just a few days but thanks for providing the service

Sad day. Lemm.ee was by far my favorite instance and my home. Thanks admins for the hard work.

Thank you for your hard work! Sorry I was being an ass time to time.

Lemm.ee has been an amazing instance.

Loved the transparency, mods, community, and lemm.ee is easy to type out and remember

What happens to the communities there? Is there a way for them to automatically migrate to another instance?

In this situation, a user on lemm.ee would have to export their settings and create a new account elsewhere, right? Do their comments and post histories get exported too? I joined Lemmy only a month ago; this is the first time seeing an instance go down, so I'd appreciate it if someone here could clarify that.