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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.

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[–] Master@lemm.ee 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Sad day. Lemm.ee was by far my favorite instance and my home. Thanks admins for the hard work.

[–] CooperRedArmyDog@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

.ee was my second favorate general instance after .ml I will be very sad to see it go

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

After .ml?

Then how can you even like lemm.ee and its right-wing mods?

[–] CooperRedArmyDog@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I have never spent significant time on their instance, user wise, they tend to be less likely to scream that I am from .ML and so an evil tankie.

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I spent more time there and 'evil tankie' was among the lesser (of many many) insults.
Like nazi, bcs in their propagandised brain that is the same thing.
They are on horseshoe level.

[–] CooperRedArmyDog@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Im going to be honest with you, the worst instance I generally interact with is .world, I have never made a secret I am a communist, see username, but that is by far the worst instnce in my experience both of if I say anything "evil tankie" and they are also one of the worst at the evidence for me being a communist is not I have red army, but because I am from.ml

I admit this might be skewed because .world is bigger, but people from .ee tended to be more amenable,

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Personal experience I guess.
.world is indeed not much better.
When recently .ml got federated again here and the reactions were mostly negative to extremely hostile.
But it's good that we're here, for some balance and post facts and opinions they otherwise don't see.
Cheers

[–] CooperRedArmyDog@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago

Cheers to you too, this was truly a plesent discussion, atleast on my end.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Lemm.ee has been an amazing instance.

Loved the transparency, mods, community, and lemm.ee is easy to type out and remember

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

wasnt enough to save the instance, they were probably running as a skeleton crew ever since they asked the need ofr admin.

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In this situation, a user on lemm.ee would have to export their settings and create a new account elsewhere, right? Do their comments and post histories get exported too? I joined Lemmy only a month ago; this is the first time seeing an instance go down, so I'd appreciate it if someone here could clarify that.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

a user on lemm.ee would have to export their settings and create a new account elsewhere, right?

Yes

Do their comments and post histories get exported too?

No, but if I understand it correctly, they will live on in other servers that were federated at the time they were posted.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Oh I didn't realise that how it worked.

Doesn't that mean that the hosting requirements for every instance are just going to become unfeasibly large as time goes on, or do the files get cleared out after a couple of years?

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Text is very small and easily compressible, it's more images that you need to worry about generally speaking.

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

Thank you kindly!

[–] gronjo45@lemm.ee 6 points 6 days ago

Thank you so much for providing my home instance. Have enjoyed Lemm.ee the past two years.

Can/How do you Import/Export your comments/replies?

[–] Neuromorph@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

Ah . I just joined last month. So missed all these requests.

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 0 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Why couldn’t they just leave it be? People can block anyone that they don’t want to see posts from. Is it really that important to have an army of people banning anyone who they disagree with?

What else do the admin team do other than ban people and remove posts and comments?

[–] perestroika@lemm.ee 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)
  • Not providing a platform for activities that harm society (e.g. scams, disinformation).
  • Not providing a platform for activities that will get you sued or prosecuted (e.g. piracy, child porn).
  • They had to pay a considerable amount for the service.

On social media, putting the burden of blocking on a million users is naive because:

  • Blocks can be worked around with bots, someone has to actively fight circumvention.
  • Some users don't have the time to block, simply conclude "this is a hostile environment" and leave.
  • Some users fall for scams / believe the disinfo.

I have once helped others build an anonymous mix network (I2P). I'm also an anarchist. On Lemmy however, support decentralization, defederating from instances that have bad policies or corrupt management, and harsh moderation. Because the operator of a Lemmy instance is fully exposed.

Experience has shown that total freedom is a suitable policy for apps that support 1-to-1 conversations via short text messages. Everything else invites too much abuse. If it's public, it will have rules. If it's totally private, it can have total freedom.

[–] kazerniel@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Some users don’t have the time to block, simply conclude “this is a hostile environment” and leave.

This exactly.

As the anecdote puts it, once you start tolerating Nazis in your bar, it becomes a Nazi bar.

They poison the space, and the regular folks leave.

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world -2 points 6 days ago

Exactly, the censorship and banning on there was ridiculous.

[–] who@feddit.org 182 points 1 week ago (8 children)

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.

[–] Walican132@lemmy.today 103 points 1 week ago (24 children)

I’ve noticed this a ton over the last two or three months. Lemmy has become so much more negative than it was when I joined. It’s a real bummer. I can’t even imagine trying to be a mod or an admin.

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[–] UnearthedUnusual@lemm.ee 116 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have mostly just lurked here and wanted to come out of my shell to say thank you, admins, for all your hard work on this instance. You did a great job running this instance and I'll miss being the goblin hiding in the corner here.

Best of luck with your next endeavors.

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[–] Owljfien@lemm.ee 87 points 1 week ago

Oof owie, my instance

[–] MCasq_qsaCJ_234@lemmy.zip 75 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Managing a federated network comes with a lot of responsibility.

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[–] realitista@lemm.ee 59 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Shiiiit. What's the easiest way to migrate all my communities quickly???

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 76 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Go to your settings, and scroll down. Theres an export to json option. Just save it, and then you can imprt that file in your new account. Super easy.

Figuring out where to go is a little harder though.

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