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
I can’t imagine how frustrating this must be for the mods that made this move possible…
Just singular “mod” I’m afraid, and personally it’s not that big of a deal. I’m more sad/surprised that lemm.ee is shutting down than anything else really.
Well thank you for your service
Time to move again.
Why not just use the original community on lemmy.world?
Piefed has a community migration feature: https://piefed.social/post/667045
I just tried it, it works quite well: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/45876492
Fuck no!
Same feeling here
I mean, that’s not a reasoning or answer to the question “why”
At this moment, 9 out of the 10 most active communities are on LW: https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active
You have to scroll 3 times to see [email protected], the first Lemm.ee community.
Should LW make a similar announcement to Lemm.ee today, we would have to migrate almost all the communities of the platform elsewhere.
Distributing communities between instances mitigates that issue.
But also LW is unlikely to fail, is it.
But if there is a dedicated team, we could also do a football specific instance (i still own lemmy.futbol i think, happy to donate it)
Lemm.ee was also unlikely to fail, yet here we are.
We moved away with decentralisation at the core of the decision, why would we suddenly move back. Failures happen, if we all gave up because something didn’t work out, we wouldn’t have anything.
Second this. In my opinion the solution is already there and just waiting to be revived.
I have to agree, any instance could die at any time. I made the mistake to sign-up in lemmy.world, which was wrong, because lemmy should be many instances and not 4-5 instances. Same goes with commuties
I known I have a community in lemmy.world, but I’m about to move itz looking for instance if not lemmy.ca.
Nice!
And to mention again, we left Reddit for this exact reason, because we didn’t want 1 control everything. Which means many instances and users shifting things.
Let’s just move to [email protected] it’s a dedicated and underused football instance.
For context, this instance is part of the https://communick.news/c/communick_news_network network
The admin is known for being against donations-based instances:
Personally, I have a preference for the community lead model, that said, I don’t think other models can’t co-exist, it’s up to the admin to convince the sceptics as to why soccer.forum is the best destination for football in spite of the model
Why did you move from lemmy.world?
The community voted for it, each for their own reasons. A lot of people is concerned that it has grown too big, others don’t like some of noise that has surrounded the admin team/instance policies.
Imagine what would happen if LW made a similar announcement to Lemm.ee tomorrow.
