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Welcome to Lemmy.zip

Hello to all of our new users.

I wish we could all meet in better circumstances. The closing of lemm.ee is a real blow to the fediverse, and I have nothing but the greatest respect for the lemm.ee admin team. Lemm.ee was a cornerstone of the lemmy community, and set a high bar for moderation and technical performance.

Finding a home on the fediverse can be tough. Whether you're here to lurk, post, moderate, or contribute in your own way, we’re glad you’ve joined us. Lemmy.zip might not replace what was lost, but we hope it can become a lemmy instance where you can feel at home.

Everyone should receive a welcome PM when they sign up to Lemmy.zip from the ever-present dark lord overseer friendly bot, ZippyBot. However, in case poor Zippy has been overworked and forgotten to send the PM to you, here's some helpful information regarding Lemmy.zip!

  • All of our policies can be found at legal.lemmy.zip. This includes our Code of Conduct. Please (please!) have a read of this. Our number 1 rule is Remember the human! (no harassment, threats, etc.). We absolutely adhere to this. Treat people with respect.
  • When you created your account, we set up some "Default Blocks". If you want a more unfiltered Lemmy experience, you can head to your account settings and remove the blocks. You can read more about this in our Welcome Post - they are currently hexbear and lemmgrad.
  • We have monthly updates! You can read the latest one here!. We're always open to suggestions if there's anything else you'd like to see in these.
  • We have some metrics around federation for the curious among you. The link is in the sidebar or you can click here!
  • We have our status page at status.lemmy.zip. In the unlikely event the server becomes sentient and starts a robot uprising, full details will be available here.

Finally, your admin team is myself (Demigodrick), Sami, Druid, and Gazby. Please reach out to any of us if you feel you need help or support with anything. We also have a support email - hello@lemmy.zip.

If you have any questions, please let us know and we'll do our best to answer them.

Thanks,

The Lemmy.zip Admin Team

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  • Just pinning this - we are getting a little battered by people importing their data from lemm.ee.

    If you get a timeout or a rate limit error, please try using a VPN to upload it 😊

    If this doesn't work, feel free to shoot us a PM or let us know!

  • For all the newcomers, Demigodrick & co do a fantastic job of looking after us all in our little corner.

    For UK users, you may be better off at feddit.uk though. This instance has opted to geoblock UK (on browsers at least - apps and instance federation currently unaffected) due to the requirements of the OSA. Worth a mention.

    I keep an alt on feddit.uk but still use this as my main. Where allowed, it is good practice to keep an alt elsewhere and occasionally copy your community subscriptions over to it. Saves a lot of time and panic if a lemm.ee situation arises again.

    Oh, and welcome!

  • Welcome everyone! .zip has an amazing admin team and excellent monthly updates. I landed here pretty fast after leaving R and have never felt any reason to set up an account anywhere else. If you like it after a few months, you should donate - I imagine a few hundred more active users might be some increase to resource needs.

    • Yeah donations are an important point - the server is coping with the current levels of traffic, but its certainly not thriving! If we are lucky enough to be chosen by a majority of .ee, we will definitely need to consider an upgrade or additional hardware.

  • Thank you so much for the warm welcome!!

    Lemm.ee was really a fantastic place, while losing it is heartbreaking to me, I fully understand the admin team reasons and I wish them all the best in their lives and future endeavors.

    I can never thank them enough for what they've done for us, I hope they'll see this thread.

    I chose Lemmy.zip because it seemed to me the most similar in policies and moderation, I'll do my best to make it my new home :)

  • Hello! Just joined from lemm.ee, happy to be here! Once I get settled in I plan on donating to help keep server maintenance. I understand the value in decentralized platforms, and wish I had done so with lemm.ee (which wasn't their problem, it was moderation, but I digress).

    I look forward to seeing familiar usernames here! 😁

  • Thanks for welcoming the refugees with such open arms! We appreciate it!

  • Hey, thanks for welcoming us in.

    I'm having a little trouble on-boarding. Anytime I try to import my settings via JSON in the Import/Export Settings box, I get the following error: "Please wait a few minutes before trying to import or export settings again." The error was thrown on the first attempt and has been the same for a couple days. Happens in both Firefox and Chrome.

    • Hey, might be worth trying over a vpn if you have access to one, otherwise leave it with us and I'll come back to you when I have an answer :) I think we need to restart lemmy to clear rate limits due to lots of new accounts.

      • Good call, that did it. Don't know why I didn't think of that. Thanks!

        Edit to add: If it helps with others, I'm US-based, VPN went through Netherlands just now.

  • I'm glad to be here tbh. I considered moving to either here or blahaj a few times just to get away from the biggest instances, but I had no issues with lemm.ee so I never did in the end. But here's my push I guess!

  • Hi, I'm thinking of maybe creating an account on lemmy.zip.

    What I read in the legal docs looks promising. I have one question however: I do not see a proper imprint at lemmy.zip . Is the site and the domain privately owned? Not in a foundation or anything? If yes, are there plans in place in the case of the site owner stepping down from the project? Like transfer to another admin? Or could something like on lemm.ee with a closure happen as well at some point hypothetically?

    • Hey! They are privately owned yes (by me) and currently not in a foundation - donation amounts have never really warranted the cost or complexity of setting anything up.

      However, all admins have a level of access to the backend of the site, including SSH, Cloudflare, Hetzner etc. so that the site can be maintained even if I were to vanish.

      If I step down, there is sufficient technical knowledge (and equally as importantly, admins with the right ethos!) to keep the site running and to take on the ownership.

      I do have a plan to move things into some form of non-profit/community structure when it becomes warranted. That does mean doxxing myself though, so I'm holding off until necessary :)

  • we set up some "Default Blocks".

    :(

    anyways, gl to the lemmee refugees

    • I had the same reaction. .zip had some votes on this in the past and didn't defed from HB at that time so I guess this is a later compromise? My opinion is that a "disable to unblock" option is much closer to defederation than not. .ee wasn't defederated from you either, right?

      • Yeah, it was the compromise, my understanding is they wanted fewer people to complain about Hexbear, so now few see Hexbear.

        And yes, .ee wasn't de-federated from us, but they de-federated from basically no-one. Load from them having to moderate arguments with Hexbear users has at least a little bit to do with the closure.

  • It’s weird to see Lemmy.ee shut down as that was the first instance I joined. Moving here before all this happened is a strange coincidence.

  • Thank You Guys You Have Just Saved Most Users Form Losing Their Posts On Lemmy

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