Welcome!
Due the recent high amount of users coming over from Reddit, many of the existing large Lemmy instances have been struggling to keep up. This instance was created to help spread out the load on the Lemmy network. Lemmy newbies are welcome here.
The goal for lemm.ee is to provide a home Lemmy instance for anybody that needs one. That means that you are more than welcome here even if you mostly intend to just interact with other instances rather than this one!
Note: if you want to start up a new community here, but the name is already taken by an inactive community, then don’t worry! Inactive communities can be transferred to new moderators. Please follow the steps outlined in our FAQ under the “How can I take over an inactive community” section.
What is Lemmy?
Lemmy is a federated link aggregator. This image explains it pretty well! In general, the fact that it’s “federated” just means that it works much like e-mail - in the same way as a Gmail user can send e-mails to iCloud Mail users or Outlook users, a lemm.ee user is able to participate in communities on many different Lemmy instances. Regardless of which Lemmy instance your account lives on, you are a part of the federated network and can interact with other users from other instances, so this instance is as good of a place as any other to get started with Lemmy.
If you have any further questions about Lemmy, please check out our guide/FAQ!
About lemm.ee (this instance)
lemm.ee is intended to be a serious long-term instance, not just some random experiment.
You can always find the most up to date rules and general info about lemm.ee in the sidebar on our front page. If you want to know more about how this instance is run, you can check our administration and federation policy.
For some technical background, this instance is operated following industry best practices:
- Our infrastructure is robust and has been built up with redundancy and recoverability in mind
- The servers are running in the cloud (this is not some bedroom server situation!)
- All of the infrastructure is described declaratively as code, which allows relatively quick and safe changes to any part of our infrastructure whenever necessary
- Our entire database is backed up constantly, so in the worst case, we can always restore our data
A significant chunk of funding for this infrastructure comes directly from our amazing community. This support is essential to help secure our future. These supporters deserve the gratitude of all lemm.ee users!
You can read more details about how our instance is funded on this GitHub sponsorships page. There is also a Ko-Fi donations page as a back-up.
If it sounds like lemm.ee might be the right instance for you, then you are welcome to join us!
It sounds like you actually care about all of this. Thanks for making a refugee camp for us. Keep being professional about it and I’m sure you will nurture a great community.
Sure
Whatever you are doing, you’re doing an incredible job at optimizing the instance. You are faster than my closest instances despite being half the world away. Thanks!
Wee! Thanks for lemmeeing me in! :)
Another Reddit refugee here - thanks for setting up this instance.
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This is the future, the tone we set here can define our it as an online community. Post as much content as you are comfortable. Engagement creates more engagement but it won’t work if we all sit and wait for posts to happen in the smaller communities.
How do I make this post hidden? It’s always at the top of my feed.
Depends on what frontend/app you are using. You might have an option in their settings to hide posts you have already interacted with.
I don’t know why I didn’t bother to check those settings. I think I assumed they were app specific and not tied to the instance I was logged into. I got it. Thanks.
Did you figure it out?
For me, leaving the community was enough (but I don’t really want to have to do that, just to keep it from appearing at the top of my New feed!)
Wondering the same thing…
Thanks for hosting the instance man!
Yeah thank you, it’s nice to be able to spread out but so many instances are private or never respond to requests to join
I’ve been on .world since a few weeks before the reddit 3rd party app ordeal. But I abandoned .world due to their Threads federation. I’ve been off lemmy for most of a few weeks but have been missing it.
Just wanted to say thank you for creating this instance! I was hoping to find one with community creation, downvotes, and no Threads federation.
Seems like a great fit. Do you have a donation page? If I like it here after a little while, I’d be happy to pitch in a little bit. I had been donating to .world until they confirmed Threads federation…
Edit: Couldn’t take the federation with tankies here, and since blocking an instance only blocks posts (not user interaction), I’ve moved on to feddit.de.
Hello folks. I finally left Reddit after 12 yrs and I just want to say Thanks to the creator of this instance. I will take a look around for a while and will be participating soon. Cheers!
By the way, if anybody has any questions about how to use Lemmy, or maybe suggestions for this particular instance, just drop a comment or post here!
I believe that the first time somebody subscribes to a community from another instance, there might be a delay in syncing things up for that community. But later on, everything should be quite fast (I’ve already have some near real time comment discussions with people from other instances).
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Thank you for hosting this instance, kind person!
So I’m new to this whole decentralization thing. I’m using the Memmy app on my phone thru apples test flight. An example they used was lemm.ee is like our local post office, we send letters to our neighbor down the street but can also receive a funny letter from far away places like lemmy.world and lemmy.ml. Is that a good example?
Like lemm.ee is totally self sufficient from lemmy.world but I can still see their content
And one quick question. What makes a good server, because I just chose this one because it was at the top of a list when I made my account and I have no clue what I’m doing
That analogy is not bad!
If I was picking a home server, I would consider:
- Do the rules match with my values?
- Are there indications that the server is being run well?
- Has the server defederated from any other servers which I want to interact with?
Looks like the rush is over, the total users number has flattened out according the-federation.info/platform/73. Probably a good thing since it was getting a bit hectic with the sudden demand. Anyway this instance is performing very nicely on desktop browser for me, very little lag or delay anywhere. It’s a pleasant experience. Thanks to the admin for an excellent server, also nice you’re on the latest updates.
Another Reddit refugee. I always feel facinated when discovering open source alternatives to things I use. Thank you!!
Hello! I’m moving over from Lemmy.World due to federation issues and heard this place was better. Currently using the Connect app!
Same!
Also because their recent stance on piracy!
From what I can tell, Lemm.ee and Lemmy.world are still federated but I can’t see posts from my lemmy.world community for the past week or so…any idea what’s happening?
Community: !classicrock@lemmy.world
Posted same more recent and was downvoted. Really is a problem. Cheers.
What do you mean? lemm.ee is blocking threads https://lemm.ee/instances
You can also check federation status of other fediverse instances with Threads
