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lemm.ee dead (self.fediverse)
submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by pewgar_seemsimandroid to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/28228514

website is up, you can see a handful of posts but you cannot login and mostly just errors out.

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[-] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 68 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

It's 30th of June. Lemm.ee is shutting down now.

https://piefed.social/post/816659

[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid 7 points 4 weeks ago

im pretty sure it was having issues on the 29th

[-] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 10 points 4 weeks ago

Well... it's 10 before midnight here. I'm pretty sure a bit east from me it's the 30th already. Not so much in the west. But I don't know where lemm.ee was located.

[-] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 4 weeks ago

Estonia, so it's already the 30th there

[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid 8 points 4 weeks ago

pretty sure sunaurus is an Estonian.

[-] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 7 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Ah. My instance reports the last activity from lemm.ee from 45mins ago... So that'd be June 30th, 00:14 Estonian time. And the main page forwards to join-lemmy.org now. Looks like the shutdown to me.

[-] ech@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 weeks ago

Also, .ee is the TLD for Estonia.

[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid 2 points 4 weeks ago

well yes, i am estonian

[-] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 29 points 4 weeks ago
[-] FundMECFSResearch 14 points 3 weeks ago

That’s pretty smart of the admins, actually. Thankful they thought of that.

[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid 8 points 4 weeks ago

oh, now it does

[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid 5 points 4 weeks ago
[-] roofuskit@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

Not really, the admins and just about every active community on there announced a month ago that they were shutting down.

[-] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 4 weeks ago

I wasn't affected by this directly, but from what I saw it was all handled extremely well - lots of notice so users could choose new instances and mods could coordinate moving communities elsewhere. Makes me optimistic for the fediverse.

[-] BubblyRomeo@kbin.earth 17 points 4 weeks ago
[-] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 weeks ago

As a former lemmeezen, RIP, F, it was a good trip, quite decent service, but now it's time to spread out.

db0 is being nice so far, and I even got an account on my country's lemmy.

[-] aceshigh@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago
[-] kai@quokk.au 2 points 3 weeks ago

db0 way of managing the community is great but PieFed is a lot better by what I'm noticing and they dont have a PieFed instance. quokk.au is close to that if you want to jump ship to PieFed meanwhile

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[-] trk@aussie.zone 7 points 4 weeks ago

I'm not even a member of lemm.ee and was aware of it closing today^*^

^*^ - timezone dependent but +/-24hours.

[-] frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Same. at least users of lemm.ee were given a lot of notice in advance so they could prep

[-] mp3@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 weeks ago
[-] GrayBackgroundMusic@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 weeks ago
[-] absentbird@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Same, it was a good instance.

[-] kai@quokk.au 2 points 3 weeks ago

it still show up on search engine results lol i wonder hows that gonna work out now when people click to see a post and see its been shutdown

[-] pineapplelover@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 weeks ago

Currently in between .zip and dbzer0 seeing which vibe is right

[-] TerkErJerbs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

True story I actually meant to switch to .zip and I had both it and dbzer0 open in tabs for a few days (deciding between them) and on d-day for .ee I opened one and signed in and did the verification... and then realized where I was. And actually I'm happy with my accidental choice. It's rad here.

[-] aceshigh@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago
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[-] TerkErJerbs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 weeks ago

Confirm is ded. I moved from there. RIP.

[-] kai@quokk.au 2 points 3 weeks ago

quokk.au is nice too if you want to use PieFed instead since db0 has no PieFed instance yet

[-] oppy1984@lemdro.id 6 points 3 weeks ago

Refuge here, moved to joined a new server, couldn't get my subscriptions moved over so I just resubscribed to each one manually, annoying but not the end of the world.

I am looking into the idea of hosting my own instance on something like a $5 linod just to make sure this never happens again. But I don't even know if it's worth it, or possible with that. You can tell I've only had the idea not the motivation.

[-] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Refugee families 🚣

[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid 2 points 3 weeks ago

i also had to move instances and the estonian language community. (to lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz, lemmy.blahaj.zone might be defederated from it)

[-] aceshigh@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

… as someone whos considering switching out of world my eyes are open.

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[-] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago

Done did their final sudo docker compose down

[-] million@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

What happened? Did the instance maintainer just get sick of running it?

[-] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 22 points 4 weeks ago
[-] million@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

Bummer - sucks to lose a good server

[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid 2 points 4 weeks ago

and the estonian community was on there too, and my account on there.

[-] iso@lemy.lol 5 points 4 weeks ago

Sadge. It was a pretty solid instance.

[-] Sackeshi@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

There is going to need to be some centralization of some form for this to work. The fediverse is a mess right now but its such a good idea.

[-] FundMECFSResearch 13 points 3 weeks ago

What, centralisation has the opposite effect. It makes things worse. Imagine lemmy.world shutting down (the biggest instance), lemmy would be fucked.

Decentralisation is to be encouraged. So if an instance shuts down, it’s not the end of the world.

Like how basically all lemm.ee communities were migrated.

[-] Sackeshi@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

When I say centralization I don't mean letting a few control the many. This is what I mean.

  1. Figure out what the alternatives are for these sites we don't need several Twitter alternatives.

  2. Each site needs a front page, Accessible on the Fediverse front page. This allows people to easily make an account.

  3. There should be one main site which will be the largest instance, people can edit the UI to feel how they like, but we need to allow communities to grow big.

  4. To safe guard against point 3, fund the sites with 100s or thousands of co-equal owners. Say you get 5K people donating $5 a week to each site, they each get 1 stock or piece of the "company" and now it prevents a reddit or twitter situation.

  5. The final thing, we need Fediverse user accounts, where once you make an account on 1 site you are automatically signed up to all of them and anyone can follow/subscribe and follow on all platforms, leading to a more cohesive biome

[-] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)
  1. No. There is no particular reason why there needs to be one (say) twitter alternative. Heck, there is not even a reason why there should be a alternative. Fediverse is allowed to be their own things.
  2. But each site already has their front page. See eg.: lemmy.dbzer0.com. Alternatively if you meant "each software", that's more-or-less what join-lemmy.org is doing.
  3. No but yes.
  4. I'm not sure that leads to where you think it leads to. That would require authenticating users financially, for one, else it becomes a dark pattern magnet for suckpuppeting.
  5. Mostly absolutely yes. I think I've seen it discussed a few times under "fediverse identity" or something like that.
[-] Sackeshi@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

No. There is no particular reason why there needs to be one (say) twitter alternative.

Having multiple versons of the same type of platform artificially divides the Fediverse and makes it more likely that they'll split along ideological lines

Heck, there is not even a reason why there should be a alternative. Fediverse is allowed to be their own things.

While it would be awesome if we could figureout unique formats of social media, everything has basically been done, Myspace, Facebook and Linkton are the format of keep up with your friends.

Twitter and BlueSky are the basic format for literally "see whats trending"

Reddit and Lemmy are the basic format of Curated Community Content.

Youtube is the basic video sharing platform.

Tiktok algorithmic video sharing and platform which actually improves on youtube.

It would be really hard to fine a way to make a truly unique social media site but would be awesome

[-] hefejefe@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Bad like brian over here. Signed up for lemme just to be kicked off the first server. Hopefully it’s an extremely rare event. If world goes down, I’m out.

I hear Digg is close to launching its beta or whatever..

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