If you are still looking for an alternative, https://lemmy.zip/ is a solid choice. Similar moderation policy than lemm.ee.
Monthly reports: https://lemmy.zip/post/39959863
Lots of lemm.ee users moving there: https://lemmy.zip/post/40323214
If you are in the UK (where lemmy.zip is geoblocked due to UK laws), https://feddit.uk/ is a good option.
You can export your subscriptions, blocks and saves from “Settings - Import/Export settings” and then import them on your new account.
Thanks for the good times lemm.ee. Just got my zip account today.
I just want to say that I have moved from ee to zip and the export-import function is easy and it worked flawlessly.
Thank you for sharing!
.zip seems to have more timeouts and actions need to be retried 🤔
I’ve migrated this account to db0 and making copy accounts at a few other places such as sopuli.
The only thing I’m missing is how to migrate my posts, can’t find a way to do that.
And, gonna be real:
Gonna miss lemm.ee. It has a je ne sais quadracoptêre that made it feel a quite cozy community, somehow.
Posts are federated already, so you can’t migrate them. The content from your old account is already on the new server, just under your old account name. Importing posts to a new account, especially if they “posted” from that new account isnt possible.
It would be great to have a “migrated/archived” tab on an account that would bring over posts/content in a local only way that was just attached to that account, but that’s not a feature lemmy has.
If you want to try out PieFed (An alternative front-end to the Fediverse) instead of Lemmy you can check out quokk.au or piefed.social
Other honorable mentions:
If you are in the UK (where lemmy.zip is geoblocked due to UK laws),
Wait why?
Farewell to the best Lemmy instance!
I think I should be trying Lemmy.zip instance. Any feedback on that?
Quite a few in this thread
Point your new account/instance by adding it on your lemm.ee bio! So others can find you.
Can anyone fill me in? Why is your instance shutting down? Is this permanent?
Tl;dr: Admin burnout
Thanks, surprising but appreciate the filling in
Bear related burnout
Pawsitivly un-bear-able
gonna miss you, lemm.ee.
If you are in the UK (where lemmy.zip is geoblocked due to UK laws)[…]
That’s news for me. Anyone know what law(s) exactly they have problems with?
Is there a list of that shows where the main communities on lemm.ee are moving to?
Thank you!
I’m not 100% how this all works. I use the Voyager app on iOS with Lemm.ee. Do I need to switch apps as well as make a new account?
Not at all. To create an account on a new instance with voyager:
- Click on your account in the bottom center.
- click “Accounts” on the top left.
- Click “Edit” on the top right
- Click on the + at the top left
It will let you create a new account on any server you wish and use it with voyager.
For example, I’m on the lemmy.blahaj.zone instance, and I am communicating to you with voyager. But I also sometimes communicate with my alt @FundMECFS@lemmy.dbzer0.com and I access that from voyager too.
Thank you so much!
See you around fellow lemmeers.
Moved over to zip no problem, but I can’t find a way to export my comments/posts. I know I can access my profile via zip but will that be cached and available after the servers are shut down?
What do you mean by “export my comments/posts”? You can’t migrate your posts from one account to the other if that’s the question.
Your account on zip will be a new one just with imported settings and communities you follow
I’d like a list of links to them so I can at least go view them on instances they’ve federated to at some time.
Ah ok, but each instance will have its own link so you would at least have to chose which instance you would get the links
No, Lemmy has a memory hole problem right now. All the content you created is only on the servers online and federated at the time you created it. Once those servers go offline, for any reason, that content is gone
As far as I understood, the already posted/federated content is stored by each instance in its database. The pictures/media might be gone but the text should be copied around depends on (de)federation policies
Yes that’s correct, new instances don’t backfill old content. Only the servers online and federated at the time of posting will have the content.
If you migrate to a new instance that wasn’t online or federated earlier it won’t have your old content
Not quite right there. The comments exist on all the other federated servers as they’re sent out as part of the ActivityPub protocol. The problem is there will no longer be an easy way to aggregate them. Posts may disappear. But comments won’t.
There is no backfill mechanism. Only the servers online and federated at the time of posting will have the content. New servers will not. If you move to a new server it won’t have your old content
I’ve considered setting up a static read-only copy of lemm.ee, but without being able to host this on the original domain i don’t think it’ll be of much use. i already reached out to @sunaurus@lemm.ee to see if he would be interested in something like this, doesn’t seem like anything was planned from his end so far.
If that means making sure old content is still reachable in an “authoritative” way (eg.: being able to retain some sort of permaURL), I’m all for it and would wish you all the best luck.
My idea was to serve it in a way that would allow ActivityPub clients to resolve content still, while having a light static render for other clients for local content.
For content on other instances it would probably require some kind of lightweight redirection service towards the original item to be set up to prevent breaking those URLs.
This could probably be built just from scraping, without requiring database access.
If instances A B C are online and federated when you post, then A B C have copies of the data
Let’s say A shuts down and you move to a new instance D
Only B and C have your old content. D has none of your data. There is no backfill mechanism
If in the future B and C go offline (eventually they will) then the data is gone. Maybe in a archive.org snapshot.
Even in the future if D E F G still are going strong and Lemmy is thriving all the content that only A B C saw is gone. It’s a bitrot problem
I’m just leaving this whole platform.
It’s nothing special. Every fucking idiot you’ve ever met in your life on Reddit is coalescing here.
Have you had a meaningful conversation here? An informative one? I’ve been here 2+ years and I can honestly say no.
Have you seen a link that isn’t effectively a complete recycling of what you already know to be true?
It’s the same recycled bullshit you have seen for the last 20 years.
The whole format of a “democratic” link dump site is fundamentally broken. I see that now.
Sad to see them go
Sounds like you’re going through a lot. Hope you can find somewhere to outlet your emotions.
Nice of you
