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Hello to all of our new users.

I wish we could all meet in better circumstances. The closing of lemm.ee is a real blow to the fediverse, and I have nothing but the greatest respect for the lemm.ee admin team. Lemm.ee was a cornerstone of the lemmy community, and set a high bar for moderation and technical performance.

Finding a home on the fediverse can be tough. Whether you're here to lurk, post, moderate, or contribute in your own way, we’re glad you’ve joined us. Lemmy.zip might not replace what was lost, but we hope it can become a lemmy instance where you can feel at home.


Everyone should receive a welcome PM when they sign up to Lemmy.zip from the ~~ever-present dark lord overseer~~ friendly bot, ZippyBot. However, in case poor Zippy has been overworked and forgotten to send the PM to you, here's some helpful information regarding Lemmy.zip!

  • All of our policies can be found at legal.lemmy.zip. This includes our Code of Conduct. Please (please!) have a read of this. Our number 1 rule is Remember the human! (no harassment, threats, etc.). We absolutely adhere to this. Treat people with respect.

  • When you created your account, we set up some "Default Blocks". If you want a more unfiltered Lemmy experience, you can head to your account settings and remove the blocks. You can read more about this in our Welcome Post - they are currently hexbear and lemmgrad.

  • We have monthly updates! You can read the latest one here!. We're always open to suggestions if there's anything else you'd like to see in these.

  • We have some metrics around federation for the curious among you. The link is in the sidebar or you can click here!

  • We have our status page at status.lemmy.zip. In the unlikely event the server becomes sentient and starts a robot uprising, full details will be available here.

Finally, your admin team is myself (Demigodrick), Sami, Druid, and Gazby. Please reach out to any of us if you feel you need help or support with anything. We also have a support email - [email protected].


If you have any questions, please let us know and we'll do our best to answer them.

Thanks,

The Lemmy.zip Admin Team

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

My immortality begins now I’ve been told. Queue Highlander theme music!

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

Thank you for the warm welcome and the very quick approval!

[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

sagan these balls gotem

welcome :)

[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

sagan these balls gotem

Not sure I got that, but thank you!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

it's a derivative of the ligma joke if you're familiar with that. don't worry about it :D

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

I'm definitely not :D

[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Hi, I'm thinking of maybe creating an account on lemmy.zip.

What I read in the legal docs looks promising. I have one question however: I do not see a proper imprint at lemmy.zip . Is the site and the domain privately owned? Not in a foundation or anything? If yes, are there plans in place in the case of the site owner stepping down from the project? Like transfer to another admin? Or could something like on lemm.ee with a closure happen as well at some point hypothetically?

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago
[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Thank you so much for let me in

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Thank You Guys You Have Just Saved Most Users Form Losing Their Posts On Lemmy

[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Thank you! Happy to be here😉

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Thanks for the heads up about the default blocks, I didn't notice that and not too happy about it. But I'm having a great experience overall so far.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I think it is a great compromise between defederation and being more palatable to less extremely minded people. Anyone who wants to can still unblock the instances, and this way their users at least get to show up in outside communities and posts for everyone.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Based admin.

[-] [email protected] -2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Unfortunate that the chosen url is a .zip url.

.zip is ripe for malicious actors. I block access to all .zip URLs on my home network.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

I'm not sure why you are putting this here

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

So, .zip is so bad that you block the entire domain on your home network yet you're here commenting?

.. just wow ...

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[-] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Hello! The warm welcome is appreciated! I’m a lemm.ee member who’s sad to see that instance being closed. Thankfully I’ve found this fine place.

ZippyBot got the job done by sending both a DM and email.

Thanks and I’ll see you out there.

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[-] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago

For all the newcomers, Demigodrick & co do a fantastic job of looking after us all in our little corner.

For UK users, you may be better off at feddit.uk though. This instance has opted to geoblock UK (on browsers at least - apps and instance federation currently unaffected) due to the requirements of the OSA. Worth a mention.

I keep an alt on feddit.uk but still use this as my main. Where allowed, it is good practice to keep an alt elsewhere and occasionally copy your community subscriptions over to it. Saves a lot of time and panic if a lemm.ee situation arises again.

Oh, and welcome!

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Thanks for welcoming us lemm.ee refugees! I picked lemmy.zip because of how similar both instances are managed. Sad to see .ee go, but happy to be here!

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

Thank you for the prompt application approval and warm welcome.

Any chance you could share how many new sign-ups you've seen since the lemm.ee announcement? Just curious, no worries if you can't.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago

I think in the region of 150 to 200. For us, thats quite a few :)

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

It was crazy how fast my application was approved in just two minutes, kudos for staying on top of it all!

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

A day off will do that to you sometimes :D Welcome :)

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

Glad to be here. Thanks for welcoming us lemm.ee refugees.

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

Yet another lemm.ee refugee checking in. Thank you for the warm welcome!

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

Another lemm.eefuge here. Thanks for the warm welcome.

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

Lemm.ee shutting down was so unexpected for me, thank you everyone involved in taking us in.

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

Great message !

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

Another lemm.ee refugee here (even if I'm a lurker), thanks for welcoming us! <3

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