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!

  • Belgdore@lemm.eeEnglish
    832·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • mahhkk@lemm.eeEnglish
    611·
    2 years ago

    Another Reddit refugee here - thanks for setting up this instance.

    • mrbm@lemm.ee
      1·
      1 year ago

      This is the future, the tone we set here can define our it as an online community. Post as much content as you are comfortable. Engagement creates more engagement but it won’t work if we all sit and wait for posts to happen in the smaller communities.

  • Trev625@lemm.ee
    321·
    1 year ago

    Hello! I’m moving over from Lemmy.World due to federation issues and heard this place was better. Currently using the Connect app!

  • dawnerd@lemm.eeEnglish
    20·
    2 years ago

    Thanks for setting this up, looks like there’s an issue with the profile pic upload, returns a 400

  • potopato@lemm.eeEnglish
    171·
    1 year ago

    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!

  • faintedheart@lemm.ee
    16·
    1 year ago

    Just created an account here now. Has an account on lemmy.world. It faces serious downtime. Looking forward to having a nice experience here.

  • ChrisLicht@lemm.eeEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

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

  • FlihpFlorp@lemm.eeEnglish
    10·
    2 years ago

    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

    • sunaurus@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      7·
      2 years ago

      That analogy is not bad!

      If I was picking a home server, I would consider:

      1. Do the rules match with my values?
      2. Are there indications that the server is being run well?
      3. Has the server defederated from any other servers which I want to interact with?
      • FlihpFlorp@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        2 years ago

        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

        • sunaurus@lemm.eeOPEnglish
          6·
          2 years ago

          Like Reddit has its redetiquette rules and then each subreddit also has its own rules; is that kinda similar

          Yes! lemm.ee does not have a lot of rules, but the ones we do have will apply to all of our users regardless of what community they post on (even if it’s a community hosted on kbin). There are two reasons for this:

          1. The most important one - everything posted by lemm.ee users will be hosted on lemm.ee servers.
          2. The second one - our rules are designed to keep the overall impact of our users a positive one on other communities. If our users follow the rules everywhere, then there is much less chance of lemm.ee getting defederated by other instances for moderation issues.

          But you’re right that community rules may still apply on top of our basic server rules. Each community is free to set up their rules however they want!

          On that note besides being shut down what is a good indicator that a server is bad

          It’s hard to give an objective answer to this, unfortunately. All I can tell you is that I am intent on keeping lemm.ee alive for the long term. I have already paid for bits of our infrastructure for a year in advance!

          For point 3 does defederated essentially mean blocked

          Yes, users do not see any content from defederated instances.

          • FlihpFlorp@lemm.eeEnglish
            4·
            2 years ago

            Ok cool and thanks for being super helpful :)

            I’m assuming you admin people are a good place to ask for any help in the future

    • HelloHotel@lemm.ee
      2·
      1 year ago

      Thats controvertial for sure. we had a debate on if we should a while ago. Go dig that thread up for more info.

    • Rodneyck@lemm.ee
      5·
      1 year ago

      I think the upgrade to “19” or whatever really broke a lot of things. A lot of the phone and linux apps can’t access lemm.ee and many other instances anymore. The only way I can access it is using a new app called Voyager on my phone and the website which is really, really slow. Not sure what happened.

      • rescue_toaster@lemm.ee
        2·
        1 year ago

        I just tried finding my posts via the websites for lemmy.ml and lemmy.ca and couldn’t see any posts from our users. But i’m a lemmy dummy and maybe i’m screwing something up or not understanding.

        • Calavera@lemm.ee
          3·
          1 year ago

          You are correct, our posts are not being federated for some reason(a bug). Which means you are posting on the local copy of the post, but it’s not being replicated on the other instances.

          This is a shame because there is no reason to reply if other users are not going to see our posts

        • Calavera@lemm.ee
          2·
          1 year ago

          Me too, now I can see only a ton of Arab posts with no comments.

          PS: also verified that my posts were not federated outside this instance, they show me to me, but not on a foreign instance