lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month
lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month
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
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and you cant exactly go .world, with them have a political agenda in some of the communities. im guessing alot of people from ml/hexbear and world was gatekeeping comments on this instance too. and the high amount of wierd sexual kink communities on some of the feeds i have to block.
.world is the enxt largest instances, but i tried creating an acct once, but they seem to have a narrative too.
Lenmy.world simply defederates from the crazies like hexbear, lemm.ee wanted to avoid defederating this is the end result, bad actors will overwhelm and burn out your mod/admin team.
Classic case of Paradox of tolerance
There are some servers that defederate from lemmy.world, for example beehaw.org
Is that a bad thing?
If you want to also access those communities then yeah, if you don't then doesn't matter.
And?
They also defederate from piracy communities
.world has no problem with right-wing/Zionist crazies.
Nah man ML etc is insane, but .World's admins are sociopaths (speaking as someone who was internally there for a while. Just a circlejerk all the way through.
I don't think you have the qualifications to assess someone as a sociopath
When it''s obvious as all hell you don't need qualifications. I could publish hundreds of chat logs showing their behavior, but I'm a mature person, so I'm not.