Welcome!
Due the recent high amount of users coming over from Reddit, many of the existing large Lemmy instances have been struggling to keep up. This instance was created to help spread out the load on the Lemmy network. Lemmy newbies are welcome here.
The goal for lemm.ee is to provide a home Lemmy instance for anybody that needs one. That means that you are more than welcome here even if you mostly intend to just interact with other instances rather than this one!
Note: if you want to start up a new community here, but the name is already taken by an inactive community, then don’t worry! Inactive communities can be transferred to new moderators. Please follow the steps outlined in our FAQ under the “How can I take over an inactive community” section.
What is Lemmy?
Lemmy is a federated link aggregator. This image explains it pretty well! In general, the fact that it’s “federated” just means that it works much like e-mail - in the same way as a Gmail user can send e-mails to iCloud Mail users or Outlook users, a lemm.ee user is able to participate in communities on many different Lemmy instances. Regardless of which Lemmy instance your account lives on, you are a part of the federated network and can interact with other users from other instances, so this instance is as good of a place as any other to get started with Lemmy.
If you have any further questions about Lemmy, please check out our guide/FAQ!
About lemm.ee (this instance)
lemm.ee is intended to be a serious long-term instance, not just some random experiment.
You can always find the most up to date rules and general info about lemm.ee in the sidebar on our front page. If you want to know more about how this instance is run, you can check our administration and federation policy.
For some technical background, this instance is operated following industry best practices:
- Our infrastructure is robust and has been built up with redundancy and recoverability in mind
- The servers are running in the cloud (this is not some bedroom server situation!)
- All of the infrastructure is described declaratively as code, which allows relatively quick and safe changes to any part of our infrastructure whenever necessary
- Our entire database is backed up constantly, so in the worst case, we can always restore our data
A significant chunk of funding for this infrastructure comes directly from our amazing community. This support is essential to help secure our future. These supporters deserve the gratitude of all lemm.ee users!
You can read more details about how our instance is funded on this GitHub sponsorships page. There is also a Ko-Fi donations page as a back-up.
If it sounds like lemm.ee might be the right instance for you, then you are welcome to join us!
It sounds like you actually care about all of this. Thanks for making a refugee camp for us. Keep being professional about it and I’m sure you will nurture a great community.
Another Reddit refugee here - thanks for setting up this instance.
Thanks for setting this up, looks like there’s an issue with the profile pic upload, returns a 400
Hey, I’ll take a look at this soon and figure out a solution.
Hey, replying here so you get notified: I posted an update regarding image uploads here
Indeed. I get “SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data”.
I got the same trying to post an image comment.
Whew, I thought it was just me and I’ve been trying to figure out how people are uploading images.
Hello folks. I finally left Reddit after 12 yrs and I just want to say Thanks to the creator of this instance. I will take a look around for a while and will be participating soon. Cheers!
Hello! Just a test comment, using Sync for Lemmy.
Same here!
Same haha
The same here!
Looking good here.
I came over because dot world is down once again. Also because their admins are intent on carving off 20k users by defederating preemptively. Which seems bad to me.
Same here, I look forward to using it more often if everything works fine
Same! Test!
Same here
Same!
Just created an account here now. Has an account on lemmy.world. It faces serious downtime. Looking forward to having a nice experience here.
Same, registered 30 seconds ago because nothing loads on lemmy.world.
The real pain is subscribing to all the subs I had in that. There isn’t a way to export it I think.
There’s probably a few apps but I suspect it won’t help with dot world being down.
Same here. So bad all the time.
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So I’m new to this whole decentralization thing. I’m using the Memmy app on my phone thru apples test flight. An example they used was lemm.ee is like our local post office, we send letters to our neighbor down the street but can also receive a funny letter from far away places like lemmy.world and lemmy.ml. Is that a good example?
Like lemm.ee is totally self sufficient from lemmy.world but I can still see their content
And one quick question. What makes a good server, because I just chose this one because it was at the top of a list when I made my account and I have no clue what I’m doing
That analogy is not bad!
If I was picking a home server, I would consider:
- Do the rules match with my values?
- Are there indications that the server is being run well?
- Has the server defederated from any other servers which I want to interact with?
Thanks for the reply but a few silly questions
So point 1 for servers their rules are sort of ground rules how does that differ from communities. Like I’m on the lemm.ee server and I think gaming is on a kbin server so it follows the kbin rules. But for posts on lemm.ee the server rules are the ground rules. Like Reddit has its redetiquette rules and then each subreddit also has its own rules; is that kinda similar
For point 2 I saw an admin post saying they plan to stay open long term so ig that’s a good sign but are there any other indicators. If lemm.ee is a bad home server ig now it doesn’t matter since my account is new but later down the line is there a way to migrate to another server. On that note besides being shut down what is a good indicator that a server is bad
For point 3 does defederated essentially mean blocked. Like an admin of lemm.ee basically says I don’t want you seeing stuff on lemmy.world
My own stupid question but servers host communities and each kinda looping back to point 1 each server has its own ground rules then each community has its own additional rules similar to subreddits
Like Reddit has its redetiquette rules and then each subreddit also has its own rules; is that kinda similar
Yes! lemm.ee does not have a lot of rules, but the ones we do have will apply to all of our users regardless of what community they post on (even if it’s a community hosted on kbin). There are two reasons for this:
- The most important one - everything posted by lemm.ee users will be hosted on lemm.ee servers.
- The second one - our rules are designed to keep the overall impact of our users a positive one on other communities. If our users follow the rules everywhere, then there is much less chance of lemm.ee getting defederated by other instances for moderation issues.
But you’re right that community rules may still apply on top of our basic server rules. Each community is free to set up their rules however they want!
On that note besides being shut down what is a good indicator that a server is bad
It’s hard to give an objective answer to this, unfortunately. All I can tell you is that I am intent on keeping lemm.ee alive for the long term. I have already paid for bits of our infrastructure for a year in advance!
For point 3 does defederated essentially mean blocked
Yes, users do not see any content from defederated instances.
Ok cool and thanks for being super helpful :)
I’m assuming you admin people are a good place to ask for any help in the future
Switching to here for lemmy.world since I joined it when it was still fresh, now it’s overloaded on a daily basis at this point
Hey everyone! Excited to get started with lemmy :)
Does anyone have recommendations for fairly active communities? In particular a community for informative videos along the lines of r/mealtimevideos would be great
Welcome! :D
Check out !videos@lemmy.world and !videos@lemmy.ml, some of the videos seem to fit what you are looking for.
Thank you!
Thank u! anyone knows any more?
This is a great way to find other communities/instances. When searching from your instance a lot of communities won’t show up until another user of your instance searches for it specifically (the !community@instance.com type of link)
Man this is refreshing to see, just recently deleted my Twitter and Reddit accounts bc it was just getting too frustrating dealing with how those sites are handled so I’m excited to see how this goes!
Hey y’all. Reddit refugee here… Excited to be a part of Lemmy! Still a bit confused about account creation… Is it better to create different usernames for each Instances? I seem to be able to reuse the username on different instances that I have logged into. Doesn’t this risk identity theft?
Think of it like an email address: you might have shibby@gmail, but someone else happened to get shibby@hotmail. Or like unique identifiers on like battle.net or discord (though those are going away); you make your account and they give you a random number (shibby#24680), and someone else wants the same name and they get shibby#13579.
It’s pretty unlikely for someone to try to impersonate you, but if they are, I’m sure there’s someone you can contact about it.
Thanks for the reply, @themoose. I think I understand now 😉👍🏽
Just created an account here, hello everyone :)
Thank you for this. Now I can feel I’m supporting a service that actually thinks about its users and not some ass like reddit.
Have been a Reddit user since 2009. Has been difficult to make the transition. You get complacinet as you get older. I was never a big contributor but this seems like a solid alternative
