Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him] @lemmy.sdf.org 3d ago

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It feels a bit weird to see lemm.ee users posting as if their accounts aren't going to be dead in less than a month.

Edit: Sorry to lemm.ee users if this is how you found out, but this is real: https://lemm.ee/post/65824884

You'll need to join another instance to keep posting: https://join-lemmy.org/instances

You have until June 30th, 2025, so you have 19 days.

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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.

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

So long.
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Wait can I post?
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.
I logged in today and realized my lemm.ee profile was gone RIP lemm.ee
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.
Wait wait wait , what happened
For .ee users still deciding on an instance to jump to, I chose .zip because it’s managed similarly:

Similar defederation policy

Runs the latest version of lemmy

Defederated from Threads

Others moved to piefed.social.
I genuinely cannot express the depths of my sorrow.

I understand the decision and hold no ill will towards the admin team, I just think lemm.ee was exactly everything I wanted from an instance and am truly sad to not only lose the account history being associated with me, but also the most neutral of the instances.
It's been real.
am i going to lose all my posts and comments
Intersteller for ios supports piefed kinda now, still buggy for notifications but piefeds a good move too
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.
I hope they find a good new home.
🥲
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Dang. Thank you for posting this; most informative shitpost ever! (I missed the official announcement.)
What happens if I don't change ?
https://lemm.ee/post/65824884
I just moved/transferred over from sh.itjust.works from lemm.ee. I'm super sad to see it go. :(
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Oh wait
the posts and comments will still live in other instances, but yeah, they should be looking for another one
Does anyone know how I could save off any of my comments or posts? I know that they’ll still be accessible from other instance they federated to, but it’d be hard to search them all out.
Ok, any advice where we should move?
I've started the process of moving my communities and stuff, but I plan on continuing to post on .ee until it goes down. Btw, is there an easy way to check which instances a Lemmy/piefed instance is defederated from?
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It's a good run.
o7
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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.

While I respect their decision I feel like these people will just move on to other instances to do the same thing.

I don't know all the details but it smells a bit "tolerant of the intolerant" and that these people should have been shown the door before it got to the point of shutting down (other reasons aside - they're all valid)
Reminder that while it's not Lemmy, you can see the same stuff and more if you join Mbin. The power of the Fediverse is that there are lots of ways to do things, important for situations like this.

Ironically, I haven't looked into the current situation with .io lately, so I might be doing the same thing eventually. But being such a huge domain, there might be some adjustment to avoid dropping so many websites.
Consider switching to PieFed, it has many nice features Lemmy doesn't
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Any thoughts on reddthat.com?

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