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Welcome to lemm.ee!

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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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! I'm moving over from Lemmy.World due to federation issues and heard this place was better. Currently using the Connect app!
- Same!
  Also because their recent stance on piracy!
  
  Same here!
- Same here!
- What issues are you/world having?
  Edit: oh, distribution of members in the fedivese and the ddosing.

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

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
- Same! Test!
- The same here!
- Thunder here 👌
- Same here
- Same!
- Same here, I look forward to using it more often if everything works fine
- 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.

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

I made an account here on lemm.ee but I can't login to any other lemmy instance (lemmy.world, beehaw.org, etc) and I thought it was supposed to be cross-login. Is it due to the influx of traffic from reddit that this is just not working as intended, or have I done something incorrectly?
Edit: Oh I see how it works. I can see content from all those other places if I go into Communities and then click All. Sorry for being a noob, I hope another noob sees this and learns!
- There is no cross-login. You login on your current instance and get to follow communities, users, threads, etc from other instances from within your current instance.
  
  Any idea why it keeps logging me out? Even if I just refresh with F5, I have to sign back in.
- Nother noob here. Thanks for the edit! I hadn't yet found that button.
- It isn't cross-login.
  The entire federation part happens on your server's end. Communities and users from other instances get shared around from and to yours. From the point that someone interacts with a community, it is federated with the one you're on.
  This essentially means that you can just stay on your instance's web interface / in your app and navigate to communities on other instances by just searching for them with the domain: !community@example.com
  (Leaving this here for anyone else browsing, as well as your understanding)

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.
- Same here. So bad all the time.

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!
- Lemmydotworld down again at this very moment. Spread the load people! Join us, join lemmy.cafe, there are many to pick here: https://join-lemmy.org/instances
  Choose by interests or country or for an alt, whatever.

Just created an account here, hello everyone :)

Things are much peppier over here than at the .world! 👍

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!
- 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)
  https://lemmyverse.net/communities

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.

I deleted my twelve year reddit account yesterday as soon as the Sync app gave the error. The day the internet died! Kinda bittersweet. I'm subscribing to a number of Lemmy communities that may develop into the type of places I used to hang out. I tend to lurk unless there is a thread subject on which I have some expertise and think a comment would add value. It is like starting over to find those specialized subject areas and posters here but I'm treating it like a new adventure. I never had a Twitter account but am also giving Mastodon a try too. Thanks for lemm.ee and the fediverse alternative!

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

First post as a Apollo refugee looking to find a new home, thanks for the image explaining lemmy!
- same, i decided to make an account and am thankful for this server instance!

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

Hello! Came over here from .world because of issues on posting commenting over there (hope they get resolved though). Glad to be a part of this instance. I'll probably fight with my alter-ego on the .world instance as well.
Random: For the whole fediverse, I hope there would be a community/sub like thanosdidnothingwrong. I was spared on the last iteration on the big old R.
I wonder how I'd fare this time.

Still trying to wrap my head around Lemmy, but I appreciate the server!

reddit refugee here - thanks for setting this up!

Hello fellow redditors and especially hello dear lemm...ings? What do we call ourselves when we move here? I hope enough people bleed over to here to populate the site so that we have an abundance of content!
I'm just off the boat. Deleted the boost for reddit, deleted my posts, deleted my account.
I'm looking forward to this growth equally as much as I am looking forward to the downfall of reddit.
- Hey, fellow Reddit boost refugee here.
  Mayayo(Boost Dev) is working on Boost for Lemmy right now, you can preregister already I think.
  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rubenmayayo.lemmy
  
  Noiceee. I just did the thing myself. Looks beautiful
  
  Thanks man, i already did! <3
- Yup, lemmings. Welcome!

Damn, new life 🥳
After lemmy got unusable through lemmy.world (No offense, but half my API calls never get answered)😅

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.

I didn't even know this existed until people started talking about it in the last month. Glad I was able to get here before all the reddit apps shutdown

I first made an account on lemmy.world, but I feel like this should be better

Already the best instance since I can actually log into it!

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

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!

Thanks for hosting the instance.

Reddit -> VLemmy -> Lemm.ee here, like several others! Whenever I have trouble reaching Lemm.ee now I immediately assume it imploded. 😆 Fingers crossed it has a long and successful existence!

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?

Happy to be here, thanks for hosting it! This is much more performant than lemmy.world.

Came here from the Digg 2.0 implosion. Once Sync went down, I jumped ship. I like talking about subjects without having adds jammed into my face 24/7

Can we defederate from hexbear please

Feels super stable coming in from lemmy.world being hugged to death. Thanks for your hard work!

Goodbye Reddit, hello LEMM.EE

I don't know what to type but hi 🙃

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.
- 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
  
  This is a really good comparison
- Mastodon servers let you migrate your account to another instance, and admins are supposed to give users 3 months of advance warning in case of shutting down.
  There are plans to add a feature like this in a future version of Lemmy. For now, there are scripts that let you migrate your settings and subscribed communities.

Coming here from Apollo, tried mastodon but felt too twitter-y so I quit
I hope this feels more Reddit-y

Finally, something similar to Reddit that isn't the worst on the planet and is actually open source!!! I also like the layout! I feel like I'm supporting something better!

Thank you for setting up this instance in wake of the great Reddit migration. It's nice to have alternatives.

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!

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

Sync refugee here, it's lovely to see how nice everyone is on here. It'll take some getting used to but so far I'm enjoying it

Thank you for setting this up. Reddit refugee and looking to stick with Lemmy for now on. This gives me the great Digg migration vibes :)

Is there anyways to stop the "all" tab from updating? It sucks to lose a thread when it updates with a bunch of posts.
- That issue will be gone very soon, hang tight just a bit longer. The next version that I will be upgrading lemm.ee to (most likely before the end of this week) will solve it!
  
  Thank you for your work. I know that it's a volunteer position but I appreciate making this a reddit experience.

Another reddit refugee here! Although my preferred reddit app, Infinity, is still working at the moment, I no longer want to use reddit as my frontpage of the internet due to the actions & attitude of spez towards the users, mods, and 3rd party developers. I'm thrilled to be here at Lemmy. Thank you so much for hosting this instance! I will become a sponsor if I can.

using this now

How do I remove this pinned post from my feed?
- This pinned post will always show up for the local and all options. It is completely hidden for the "subscribed" feed.

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