• originaltnavn@lemm.ee
    34·
    7 days ago

    Now don’t get me wrong, I am not hype about moving from a great instance, but I feel this has been a great demonstration of why the federation is a good idea. All in all, migrating has been a fairly smooth experience, and most communities are either on other places or are moving fairly structured. Previously, closure of services or enshitification has caused me to spend weeks to months hunting for new places to read. This has been a great experience in most ways, and I think I can live happily jumping from instance to instance like this for a few years until I give up and set up my own.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      5·
      7 days ago

      Also, old content won’t be gone. It’ll still be around. Hell, people can still even reply to stuff. Inactive lemm.ee communities won’t have new comments propagate to instances past where the original commenter is from, but still!

    • MeThisGuy@feddit.nl
      2·
      6 days ago

      lemm.ee be real. your instance is fucked.

      onto the next one.

      but that’s the beauty of the fediverse… you can’t stop us all.

      one for all, all for one

      • originaltnavn@lemm.ee
        3·
        6 days ago

        Partially, at least not what I use regularly. The account settings has a system for exporting settings, communities and block lists. You cant really retroactively move comments and posts to have been made by another user, but making a post on both the old and new users claiming eachother should propagate to other instances and be archived correctly.

  • flango@lemmy.eco.br
    11·
    6 days ago
    Life's a piece of shit 
When you look at it 
Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true 
You'll see it's all a show 
Keep 'em laughin' as you go 
Just remember that the last laugh is on you 
And

Always look on the bright side of life
Always look on the right side of life
  • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
    231·
    7 days ago

    Sticking around to the last day. Love you mods. Still haven’t picked an instance. Not sure if there’s another instance run like lemm.ee

    Thinking dbzero, lemmy.zip, or shitjustworks for now

      • Aksamit@slrpnk.net
        1·
        5 days ago

        The user interface with SLRPNK is good, if you’re still looking. I joined it just before kbin died and it’s done a pretty good job filling the hole reddit left, better than kbin anyway.

        I tried to get the hang of blahaj.zone while SLRPNK was down recently and just couldn’t with how follow people/profile centric it is, or how awkward it was finding posts I’m interested in. I liked the cat widget though, reminded me of that ancient Felix browser add on.

    • LePoisson@lemmy.world
      3·
      6 days ago

      Idk I’m on lemmy.world and it seems fine? I think it’s just the default for most people since it was one of the earliest if not the first instance, would have to look it up.

      • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        6 days ago

        The .world TDL makes it sound universal and it didn’t get a reputation as THE place for Mao cultists or whatever like .ml did. So lemmy.world isn’t the center of the lemmyverse but it is in the middle.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    18·
    7 days ago

    My first instance shut down permanently within days of my signing up. I believe it had sometime remotely doing with Russia suddenly deciding to invade Ukraine.

    It really gave me that full cyberpunk experience.

    • amda@feddit.nl
      11·
      7 days ago

      My first instance also shut down pretty quickly after I started using it, but not for major conflict reasons. I’ll get the cyberpunk experience some other time I guess… 😔

  • tartarin@reddthat.com
    5·
    6 days ago

    I have already moved to another instance and I was pretty new on Lemmy as a whole. I think I created my account about a month ago.

  • volvoxvsmarla @lemm.ee
    2·
    5 days ago

    I’m an absolute noob when it comes to tech and I don’t even know what instance I am on and how this matters to be honest.

    • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
      3·
      5 days ago

      I don’t even know what instance I am on.

      You are on Lemm.ee. Unfortunately, this is the instance this post is about.

      and how this matters to be honest.

      In about 17 days, you will no longer be able to login with your lemm.ee account. You should sign up for an account on any other instance. Examples include lemmy.sdf.org (the one I’m on) or any of the sites listed here: https://join-lemmy.org/instances

      Lemmy (and PieFed and mBin, but I’m just going to talk about Lemmy for simplicity) attempts to provide an experience inspired by Reddit, but not controlled exclusively by one party. Loosely speaking, where Reddit is only one website and the whole social network belongs solely to Reddit, the social network spanned by Lemmy is actually a bunch of smaller websites that talk to each other. If the Reddit website goes down, the whole social network is down. If a Lemmy instance goes down, only that little part of network goes down.

      Unfortunately, the admins of your instance have politely posted that your instance is going down on June 30th. This applies to you and anyone whose username ends in @lemm.ee, but it does not apply to (for example) me because I am not a user on your instance. (I am on lemmy.sdf.org, which you can infer from my full username @PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org, which ends with @lemmy.sdf.org.)

      Which instance you pick depends on what you want to see, what kind of administration you want, your political beliefs and how important they are, and who you want to be allowed to talk to. For my use case, I use SDF Lemmy because we don’t defederate (roughly, cut off communication) from anyone, even people who unambiguously deserve to be cut off. Furthermore, the people here are pretty chill. And SDF.org has a history of public service literally much older than I am, so SDF Lemmy will probably be around for a while.

      Occasionally SDF Lemmy is out for like 24 hours and the SDF.org admins are a bit slow to respond, but that’s fine for me. But also, SDF is a pretty big instance now. In order to not concentrate too much power in the hands of SDF (or anyone else), you should probably choose a less crowded instance.

      • volvoxvsmarla @lemm.ee
        1·
        5 days ago

        I know that I need to migrate, nevertheless thank you for making sure I know. What I meant with

        How this matters

        Is that honestly I don’t see how I am connected to the instance to begin with. I’m trying to find a comparison that expresses what I feel but I fail to find a good one. Like a browser choice? No, there are differences in using firefox vs chrome. Like an email provider? Nah, also a huge difference. Like a remote control? I have come across weirdly designed remote controls though.

        But the instance - I have no connection to it whatsoever. It is just a random thing that provides me access to (all instances of) lemmy. I’m not sure I could care less about it.

        Maybe the closest I can come up with is the difference between a gmail.account ending in .com or in .de .

        But again, maybe I am missing something important here. I’m really tech illiterate and it is not the area I have an innate grasp at. (I used to drop that I have no idea what a router is, how tf the internet works (there are cables at the bottom of the ocean?!) or how code is even doing stuff. The problem is that I always end up with an inbox of people thinking they will be the one to make me understand.)