Hello to all of our new users.

I wish we could all meet in better circumstances. The closing of lemm.ee is a real blow to the fediverse, and I have nothing but the greatest respect for the lemm.ee admin team. Lemm.ee was a cornerstone of the lemmy community, and set a high bar for moderation and technical performance.

Finding a home on the fediverse can be tough. Whether you’re here to lurk, post, moderate, or contribute in your own way, we’re glad you’ve joined us. Lemmy.zip might not replace what was lost, but we hope it can become a lemmy instance where you can feel at home.

Everyone should receive a welcome PM when they sign up to Lemmy.zip from the ever-present dark lord overseer friendly bot, ZippyBot. However, in case poor Zippy has been overworked and forgotten to send the PM to you, here’s some helpful information regarding Lemmy.zip!

  • All of our policies can be found at legal.lemmy.zip. This includes our Code of Conduct. Please (please!) have a read of this. Our number 1 rule is Remember the human! (no harassment, threats, etc.). We absolutely adhere to this. Treat people with respect.

  • When you created your account, we set up some “Default Blocks”. If you want a more unfiltered Lemmy experience, you can head to your account settings and remove the blocks. You can read more about this in our Welcome Post - they are currently hexbear and lemmgrad.

  • We have monthly updates! You can read the latest one here!. We’re always open to suggestions if there’s anything else you’d like to see in these.

  • We have some metrics around federation for the curious among you. The link is in the sidebar or you can click here!

  • We have our status page at status.lemmy.zip. In the unlikely event the server becomes sentient and starts a robot uprising, full details will be available here.

Finally, your admin team is myself (Demigodrick), Sami, Druid, and Gazby. Please reach out to any of us if you feel you need help or support with anything. We also have a support email - [email protected].

If you have any questions, please let us know and we’ll do our best to answer them.

Thanks,

The Lemmy.zip Admin Team

  • Demigodrick@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
    25·
    1 month ago

    Just pinning this - we are getting a little battered by people importing their data from lemm.ee.

    If you get a timeout or a rate limit error, please try using a VPN to upload it 😊

    If this doesn’t work, feel free to shoot us a PM or let us know!

    • MelodiousFunk@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

      Hi, non- lemm.ee newcomer here. I’m trying to import settings from srlpnk. It’s throwing an immediate error, not a timeout (though I have gotten some rate limit messages). I took a look at the json file, and I think the problem may be trying to reference avatar etc images on slrpnk.net. Looks like I may be able to delete the strings and replace them with :null, but with you guys getting slammed I didn’t want to further gum up the works. Figured I’d run it by yas for input first. No rush, thanks!

      • Demigodrick@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
        2·
        1 month ago

        Hey - lots of new things we’ve not seen before being uncovered. Feel free to give it a shot (backup the old version first!) And let us know if it works or not. If that is the issue, I’ll log an issue with the lemmy devs as I’m sure it’ll help someone in the future

        • MelodiousFunk@lemmy.zipEnglish
          2·
          29 days ago

          Well, my instinct was wrong, still says error importing file. Could be a number of other things (version mismatch maybe, the export file is from back in January) but without being able to see the actual error I’m just shooting in the dark. If you have the time and are willing to help troubleshoot that would be awesome, if not I understand. Worst case scenario is that I spend a few minutes rebuilding subscriptions and a long long time rebuilding the block list lol. Thanks either way!

          • MelodiousFunk@lemmy.zipEnglish
            1·
            26 days ago

            Well I made a fresh export now that slrpnk is back up, and everything imported without issue. So that’s cool.

  • Teal@lemmy.zipEnglish
    40·
    1 month ago

    Hello! The warm welcome is appreciated! I’m a lemm.ee member who’s sad to see that instance being closed. Thankfully I’ve found this fine place.

    ZippyBot got the job done by sending both a DM and email.

    Thanks and I’ll see you out there.

  • SwizzleStick@lemmy.zipEnglish
    35·
    1 month ago

    For all the newcomers, Demigodrick & co do a fantastic job of looking after us all in our little corner.

    For UK users, you may be better off at feddit.uk though. This instance has opted to geoblock UK (on browsers at least - apps and instance federation currently unaffected) due to the requirements of the OSA. Worth a mention.

    I keep an alt on feddit.uk but still use this as my main. Where allowed, it is good practice to keep an alt elsewhere and occasionally copy your community subscriptions over to it. Saves a lot of time and panic if a lemm.ee situation arises again.

    Oh, and welcome!

  • scytale@lemmy.zipEnglish
    25·
    1 month ago

    Thanks for welcoming us lemm.ee refugees! I picked lemmy.zip because of how similar both instances are managed. Sad to see .ee go, but happy to be here!

  • Peacock@lemmy.zipEnglish
    22·
    1 month ago

    Thank you for the prompt application approval and warm welcome.

    Any chance you could share how many new sign-ups you’ve seen since the lemm.ee announcement? Just curious, no worries if you can’t.

      • lyn@lemmy.zipEnglish
        17·
        1 month ago

        It was crazy how fast my application was approved in just two minutes, kudos for staying on top of it all!

      • Peacock@lemmy.zipEnglish
        9·
        1 month ago

        For us, thats quite a few :)

        Figured as much given this announcement. Thanks!

  • Lumun@lemmy.zipEnglish
    19·
    1 month ago

    Welcome everyone! .zip has an amazing admin team and excellent monthly updates. I landed here pretty fast after leaving R and have never felt any reason to set up an account anywhere else. If you like it after a few months, you should donate - I imagine a few hundred more active users might be some increase to resource needs.

    • Demigodrick@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
      12·
      1 month ago

      Yeah donations are an important point - the server is coping with the current levels of traffic, but its certainly not thriving! If we are lucky enough to be chosen by a majority of .ee, we will definitely need to consider an upgrade or additional hardware.

  • megane-kun@lemmy.zipEnglish
    13·
    1 month ago

    Lemm.ee refugee here. I made my account over twenty-four hours ago, and was expecting that the registration will take time to be processed since at the time I made my application, this instance is among the most recommended. I was expecting the admins to be swamped. I was pleasantly surprised when I went back to my e-mails, an e-mail confirmation request was waiting, and just minutes after my confirmation, my registration was approved.

    I am very thankful for the swift response, and thankful for the way this instance is ran (my primary reason choosing this over the others–it reminds me of lemm.ee in a good way).

    Again, thanks!

    • Demigodrick@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
      13·
      1 month ago

      Welcome aboard! The admin team have been flat out approving the requests (and taking time to enjoy many of the application messages!) so I’m really happy people are noticing this.

      While the circumstances are rubbish, we’re glad to have you here :)

      • SwizzleStick@lemmy.zipEnglish
        10·
        1 month ago

        (and taking time to enjoy many of the application messages!)

        I would love to see some of these - maybe as an ‘editors pick’ on the monthly updates. Attributed or anonymous depending on user preference if picked.

        I am sure plenty of users have attempted comedy in that box, with some of them actually funny 🙃

        • Demigodrick@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
          7·
          1 month ago

          I will certainly consider it! :D pre-warning, I am not promising many of them are good 😂

      • megane-kun@lemmy.zipEnglish
        6·
        1 month ago

        Thanks!! It’s really noticeable, at least as far as I’m concerned. And I hope that even if you guys take your time, the new applicants will understand the delay (hell, perhaps even expect some delays because this is not in any way an ordinary situation).

        Glad to be here too, thanks!

  • EchoSnail@lemmy.zipEnglish
    12·
    1 month ago

    I liiiiiive!

    Thanks for hosting me!

    I’m not transferring anything over. I’ll rediscover things instead. Seems more fun. .ee gave me a chance to learn Lemmy. .Zip can be home.

  • monocles@lemmy.zipEnglish
    9·
    1 month ago

    Thanks for the warm welcome. Sad to see ee go, but look forward to taking part in this instance.