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
Libs don’t have a strong motive to keep places like .ee running because if their home vanishes they can just retreat to the lib sanctuary known as “the entire rest of the internet”
Lotta smug, ‘high ground’ liberals who left reddit due to moralizing over their API kerfuffle (and nothing else) about to just move back to reddit
Whatever will we do without people to tell us how the latest rendition of political theater by some liberal douchebag is actually a very clever and orchestrated policy effort that will transcend history
Remember the whole domain snafu and how many people at that instance were dancing on our premature grave?
How the turntables.
We need a new one, maybe :xi-who-will-collapse:
the lion of moscow won’t take your mockery lightly
He is the best eye doctor around!
was very funny
We should ask to run lemme as a bit
The Belden Road initiative
The funny thing is, lemmee is a genuine “Defederation as a last resort” instance, which I honestly think is pretty cool and I wish that the other lib instances were like that too. Lemmy.ml will probably be the last general purpose instance that actually believes in the Lemmy project of not defederating other instances over simple ideological disagreements. Funny how Hexbear has been a much better steward of those values, only defederating instances that we believe represent a real danger to our own users, as a leftist instance than the liberal instances.
The Belden Road initiative
:kelly:
We’d be asking honest hardworking folks
to deal with dumbfucks like their old admin team did which sucksor we’d be asking sickos
to make a mess which they probably wouldn’t enjoy.Buy the domain in a bidding war for $12
That was the very first thing I looked up when I heard the news. Unfortunately the registration appears to be paid up through the next decade.
How dare they be responsible
Honestly not great. One of the few large instances, open registration, stable that didn’t “preemptively as a last resort” defederate from HB, grad, etc and didn’t have aggressive State Dept admins. Sure they had lots of lib users and mods but unlike
(world) they weren’t totally terrible and astro-turfed.This weakens the fediverse and solidifies the power of .world which with only a bit more further concentration will have way too much power.
I had an account on there for viewing places that defederate from the usual instances like HB/grad I’m wondering where my next account should even be. .ml is not as stable as .ee was and I’d rather not tax the resources of a comrade if there’s a free speech tech bro I can tax instead.
Sh.it’s just nazis is obviously full of not great people. .world is out. The genocide loving German instance is out. I just want an account on a lemmy site that doesn’t defederate (except for illegal content type stuff or porn instances) and isn’t widely defederated from and doesn’t have state dept admins who will reach in and ban my account for Marxism and lemm.ee was perfect for that.
Zip seems fine but they block all brits, i think all medium size instance also have a few blocks too
I think the best lurker instances that have wide federation to make an account are going to be the small ones like mander
they block all brits
that’s so goddamn funny lmao, do they have like a reason or is it just for the love of the game (entirely valid)?
The UK passed some internet data law and the zip admins decided to region block all brits and if you go there with a brit id they ask you to call your goverment representitive ask them cancel the law and let you post in zip
Which is very funny
We cant never claim to be the most anti brit instance while zip exists
You’re probably looking for lemmy.sdf.org
Tbh, I second your point. Actually, I wanted to join them, just to check the rest of the fediverse.
.ml is not as stable as .ee
Are you talking about uptime?
Probably. It’s not down a lot, but it’s noticeable.
Do nothing
Win
But in all honesty, this does suck as it’s gonna result in people going back to
or 
.worldWhat do you mean, do nothing? I’m in the trenches!
Just watched an episode where the kids shrink down to watch a cucumber turn into a pickle. Funniest shit I’ve ever seen.
The last bastion of libs that stumble into Hexbear with their dumbass takes. I’ll miss them dearly
Goes to show it helps to have friends in high places
It’s always 5:00PM Moscow time somewhere
Wouldn’t be surprised if many of the more lib instances would be facing financial pressure now that USAID or some other psy-op money has dried up.
Only if admins and mods are getting paid for their time. Hosting these instances really doesn’t take a huge amount of money (especially if you’re selfhosting), and given how tech-nerd selective the entire Lemmy project is, most of the people who are interested in hosting an instance probably work in the tech industry and aren’t completely broke.
That’s what I meant, yeah.
- .world next please
PLS DONT STOP THE MUSIC
Lemm.ee users, you could use a style change too
I am in love
Lol. Lmao
They’re shutting down lemme.ee and YouR LafFiNg??
Avin a laff. bit of a giggle . some funsies
“Why has our policy of refusing to moderate our instance and letting fascists and general shitheads fester resulted in an unpleasant instance that is awful to moderate?”
What a shame, okay instance,
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.
what a rotten way to oof.
Lemme.ee users were great.
spoiler
FOR ME TO DUNK ON
Wow. I didn’t know that. I just — you’re telling me now for the first time.
It led an amazing life. What else can you say? It was an amazing server. Whether you agree or not, it was an amazing server who led an amazing life. I’m actually saddened to hear that. I am saddened to hear that.
