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

  • darkcalling [comrade/them, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    49·
    14 days ago

    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 reddit-logo (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.