I really started to just use Lemmy as a option b, rather than the main social media I use.
After Lemmy thankfully reached more than 50k active users, the closure of Lemm.ee is expected to lower this number by a lot.
Furthermore, I started to think about what would happen if my current instance got shutdown, as all my communities will be finished and all my activity will be useless.
The whole situation feels hopeless in social media as there is no valuable community-focused social media service to actually replace Reddit for once and for all.
The death of social media is kind of fueling the death of human to human communication.
Currently people are shopping, working, learning and enjoying with almost zero human interaction.
I am expecting a very bad event here. I predict that within the next 10-15 years, there will be a large amount of people who will finish high school without meeting a single human outside their family, that will lead to a generation which will be unable to express their feelings or talk and make relationships.
Over the long term, this is going to make the world worse.
Anyway, I just wanted to write my thoughts here.
Personally I think something like the shutdown of lemm.ee highlights the strength of the federated system. No one instance is the center if the universe, no one instance gets to control everything. It goes away and life goes on. You can migrate your profile and subs somewhere else.
I was feeling sad about Lemm.ee, but right now I feel that perhaps we’re too attached to any one instance lol. It helps to have more than one account and on different instances, to not put all your eggs in one basket, so to speak. It sucks to lose comment and post history though.
Exactly. Lemmy lives on regardless and it’s a glorious thing.
My heart goes out to the lemm.ee admins and I hope they’re doing okay and getting help where they need it <3
You can export your settings and subscriptions to a new account. You don’t have a reddit karma score to care about keeping. The communities will migrate. You do lose your comment history on your profile, but it’s not that bad.
I will admit I may be biased because I swap accounts frequently.
So?
- Export settings and saves.
- Make a new account.
- Import settings and saves.
- Update bio with link to your old profile on your current instance:
http://new.instance/u/olduser@lemm.eeif you really want people to see your post/comment history
Communities will move as well, it’s not a big deal.
In your post, you seem worried about the fact that the connections people make will be hyper local in real life, but you seem to be missing the fact that the Fediverse is the antithesis of that online.
Lemm.ee is just one house in the neighborhood, the important part is the community formed in the entire city, no matter where they live. If a house burns down, the occupants move on, but the community they are a part of remains.
The death of social media is kind of fueling the death of human to human communication.
I understand where you are coming from, but I feel the exact opposite. In my opinion, the rise of social media started the decline of real human connection.
Connection over social media is not a substitute for connection with humans in real life, but a lot of times it feels like it can be. I recently made a very deliberate effort to drastically cut back on my social media usage and instead force myself to go out and build community by participating in local groups and events. I’ve had so many good experiences and made several friends. That feels so much more valuable to me than the hours a day I used to spend doom scrolling.
It’s closing because a lack of admins. We need a coordinated effort to convert reddit mods. Let them know we have the old 3rd party apps working and registration and “applications” are easy. And send people strait to instances aligning with the sub instead of having them select a server
Unsure if social media is dying but in no way would I consider it a replacement for meeting real humans offline.
Hell, if there’s less social media, maybe people finally go and meet more people and while with those people, stay off their phones.
Didn’t human communication exist before social media? Why would it die after?
Maybe your view of human communication is a bit restrictive.
I think people using social media less and having more real life hobbies where they meet real people would do good for everyone.
