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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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[–] 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?

[–] 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 (12 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.

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (5 children)

agreed. the honeymoon period post-reddit-exodus was nice but this place is just like everywhere else now.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 94 points 1 week ago (7 children)

It's still quite a lot nicer than reddit, even if it has its share of unpleasant characters. Whenever I read a reddit thread I am glad Lemmy exists.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 47 points 1 week ago

It's the normal amount of suck that is inherent and not the turbo suck that corpos intentionally cultivate for profit

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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 (2 children)

Managing a federated network comes with a lot of responsibility.

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 47 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's not just federated networks. It is anything with user interaction. Managing and moderating any sort of sizeable social media site is a lot harder than people think.

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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) (3 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.

[–] OrganicMeatbag@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Only bad thing is it doesn't migrate your posts and comments. Thankfully it does migrate your saved posts!

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[–] async_amuro@lemm.ee 40 points 1 week ago (5 children)

That’s depressing news, but I get it.

Any suggestions on alternative instances?

[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 28 points 1 week ago (3 children)

lemmy.zip would be my recommendation.

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[–] Pixelemme@lemm.ee 37 points 1 week ago

That is sad to hear. Thanks for the all the work admins.

[–] Altomes@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago

Thanks for all your work, you ran a great instance and I appreciate all the effort you put into it

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

This suuuucks. We need another big, general instance that doesn't defed everyone. But I get it, being an admin sounds like a lot of work or I would do it lol. Plus I don't have place for a server around here. Or do most admins just buy space from the cloud?

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[–] node2527@lemm.ee 26 points 1 week ago

Thanks for your time. Take care of yourselves.

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sad to hear this. I liked the people I’ve met from lemm.ee and the hands-off approach to defederation that the instance had.

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[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Damn, it was like the 2/3rd most active instance

https://lemmyverse.net/ to search for a new instance

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

complete tangent: I see lemmy.world is listed there, but anyone knows why .world doesn't appear on join-lemmy.org's list of servers?

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I noticed that too, but the observer and the explorer in the same page show them, so...ok...🧐

Maybe they're trying to divide the load among different servers, so they don't serve .world as the obvious default choice.

[–] kazerniel@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Actually the observer and explorer links redirect to external sites (fediverse.observer and lemmyverse.net respectively)

It would be odd to single out just the biggest server instead of letting people decide themselves; I have a feeling this exclusion is to do with .world's users having a beef with the folks running .ml 😅 (and vice verse - join-lemmy.org seems like the official Lemmy site, so ran by the .ml ppl)

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[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The double edged sword of not defederating from other instances is that the worst instaces that most block will use your space to keep shoveling their bullshit to more people.

It creats a lot of extra work for the admins/mods

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[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 22 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Now is a good time to check out PieFed.

It also has much better mod tools, so it will make life easier for mods

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[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 week ago

Thanks, admins, your efforts and patience have been greatly appreciated.

[–] Nelots@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 week ago

Farewell Lemm.ee, it was a good two years.

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