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This is a community for discussion about this particular Lemmy instance.

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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!

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[–] [email protected] 93 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Another Reddit refugee here - thanks for setting up this instance.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Hello! I'm moving over from Lemmy.World due to federation issues and heard this place was better. Currently using the Connect app!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same!

Also because their recent stance on piracy!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Thanks for setting this up, looks like there's an issue with the profile pic upload, returns a 400

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Hey, I'll take a look at this soon and figure out a solution.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Hey, replying here so you get notified: I posted an update regarding image uploads here

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Hello! Just a test comment, using Sync for Lemmy.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

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!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just created an account here! I've been on Lemmy since the Black Out, at lemmy.world.

However I wasn't happy with Lemmy.world admin decisions concerning defederation (They didn't want to preemptively defederate Meta but they did it with some socialist instance) and inconsistent uptime. Lots of people are recommending this instance, so I decided to move here!

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Just created an account here now. Has an account on lemmy.world. It faces serious downtime. Looking forward to having a nice experience here.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same, registered 30 seconds ago because nothing loads on lemmy.world.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The real pain is subscribing to all the subs I had in that. There isn't a way to export it I think.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

There's probably a few apps but I suspect it won't help with dot world being down.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Just created an account here, hello everyone :)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Literally coming from reddit. This is a great first impression!

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That analogy is not bad!

If I was picking a home server, I would consider:

  1. Do the rules match with my values?
  2. Are there indications that the server is being run well?
  3. Has the server defederated from any other servers which I want to interact with?
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

New members, after you’ve gotten acclimated, please consider financially supporting lemm.ee. This place is extremely well run and useful!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Motivated to quit reddit b/c of changes to advert policy

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Coming here from Apollo, tried mastodon but felt too twitter-y so I quit

I hope this feels more Reddit-y

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Hi guys. Well this is overwhelming! I wasn't on Reddit as long as many. 7½ years, and a bit shy of 300k Karma. So I feel like in that time I did my part. But it's nice to have an alternative.

I'm still learning the basics with Lemmy. What happens to my account if the instance that it was created on somehow....dies? Is that a stupid question? Sorry if it is.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same-ish that would happen to your email account if your email provider dies. You would lose your account, but your interactions on other servers would be saved

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can we defederate from hexbear please

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I don't know what to type but hi 🙃

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Is Lemm.ee broken? Such low visibility, activity, it feels dead. Something is not jiving.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Just started exploring the Fediverse (Mastodon first as an exile from the 'bird that's no longer a bird' app and thought I'd have a look at Lemmy too. So far I must say I'm really enjoying them both!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

reddit refugee, thank you thank you

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Thanks for creating this instance! Reddit refugee here enjoying the discovery phase of what appears to be the new place. I was part of the digg migration to reddit over 11 years ago. The exodus from reddit to Lemmy feels similar. Using Jerboa for Android: so far so good.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I am a reddit and now lemmy.world refugee. Things just seem to work here. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

using this now

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do I remove this pinned post from my feed?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Whatever you are doing, you're doing an incredible job at optimizing the instance. You are faster than my closest instances despite being half the world away. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just created my account here, my main account is from Lemmy.world, but as it is a good thing to spread on the Fediverse (and also Lemmy.world is struggling to keep alive because of diverse reasons) I created an account in another instance and this one.

My biggest concern right now is the .ee domain, wouldn't this be a problem for not that popular domains to end up like lemmy.fmhy.ml did?

I mean, it seems like a very unusual scenario, but yet I could never see this happening to .com or .net domains.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

It's very unlikely to be an issue. Estonia is an EU country so has extra incentives and support to not break things.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yet another reddit refugee. Thanks so much for setting this up. Going to try and get as many people as I can to make the switch over from reddit!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Looks like I joined the right place finally. Been looking for a good community since reddit killed itself.

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