cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/65824884
Hey everyone
We’re really sorry to say this, but lemm.ee will be shutting down on June 30, 2025.
What you need to know
As of now:
- New user registrations are disabled
- Creating new communities is disabled
What you should do:
- You can export your settings at https://lemm.ee/settings to take them with you to another instance.
- If you’re moving to another instance, consider adding a note to your lemm.ee profile with your new username. Your old profile will still be visible from other instances even after we go offline.
- Alternatively, if you want to delete your lemm.ee profile, now is the best time to do it, so the deletion can federate out before we go offline.
- If you’re one of the folks supporting us with a recurring donation, please remember to cancel it (Ko-Fi donations should have been cancelled automatically already). Our leftover funds are already enough to cover our bills for next month, so we can keep things running without any more support.
Because of how Lemmy is built, everything posted on lemm.ee will still be accessible from other instances, even after we go offline.
Why this is happening
The key reason is that we just don’t have enough people on the admin team to keep the place running. Most of the admin team has stepped down, mostly due to burnout, and finding replacements hasn’t worked out.
The sad reality is that while there are a lot of great people on Lemmy, there are also some who use the platform to attack others, stir up conflict, or actively try to undermine the project. Admins are volunteers who deal with the latter group on a constant basis, this takes a mental toll. Please understand why our admins chose to step down, and be kind to the admins on whatever instance you decide to join.
We know this sucks. We’re genuinely sorry it’s ending like this. Thank you to everyone who spent time here and helped make it better.
– lemm.ee team
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I think I might be based there, but how do I know? I’ve literally only used the app to access this place. Laptop is strictly reserved for porn. lol
Cool, now we’ll get an influx into lemmy.world and I’ll finally have a reason to abandon this account lol
This is going to led to more lemmy.world centralization sadly
I would hope that the users would not go immediately to lemmy.world, but rather other instances. But you may be right unfortunately
I went to world since thats what popped up the most in the all feed for .ee
But they’re already the biggest :/
At the very least if you’re going to make communities please do it elsewhere.
Going to be interesting seeing the community shift around. Thanks for all the hard work Lemm.ee admins.
I’ve only been on Lemmy for a year, but this feels pretty significant. How do we prevent this from happening to other instances? Or do we not see it as a huge problem if we assume most active users will migrate to other Lemmy instances?
Also side note, I think Voyager defaults to lemm.ee.
Forgive me, I’m still not sure what this means. Is this site just dead at the end of the month?
Well that was super painless. Downloaded my .json settings, imported, and it’s like nothing even happened. All sublemmy communities I was subscribed to before have migrated successfully.
I guess this is a nice test of the migration feature for a lot of users :)
Although defederations are an issue. Sopuli for instance blocks both Hexbear.net and lemmygrad.ml - which imho is very much a good thing.:-)
This is a massive loss for the Fediverse.
How does one delete their lemm.ee account?
They’re going away with the lemmy money 😮
What will happen to the remaining donated funds once everything has been settled (assuming there’s funds left over)?
well ig i have to move back to my thelemmy.club account
Thank you and the admin team, past and present, for their time and care.
Shit fuck
Sail into the sunset lemm.ee
You will be missed
Definitely
