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!
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!
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.
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.
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
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!
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!
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.
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!
I was very close to buying the lemm.ee domain last week! I'm glad you got it and could put it to good use. I ended up going with a different domain (upvote.au) for my instance instead.
Thank you so much! Recent events on Reddit have compelled me to explore alternative platforms, and I'm genuinely intrigued by the outcome. Will Reddit meet its demise? Will Lemmy flourish? It's incredibly fascinating to see what lies ahead. Additionally, I'd like to inquire about donating to your cause. How I can contribute to this Lemmy instance or support your efforts?
I like how you've set lemm.ee up, thinking of signing up. Out of curiosity, is not having any instance blocked a policy of sorts? I ask because I couldn't help but notice this is the largest instance with no blacklist according to awesome-lemmy-instances, and I do rather enjoy the idea of being able to have a home from where I can mostly enjoy lemmy as I see fit.
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
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!
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.
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!
Thank you for setting this up. For the most part, I understand the federated nature of Lemmy, but finding an instance that doesn't get bogged down to the point where I can't log in or can't sign up for a new account...that has been incredibly frustrating.
Can I ask how you're funding this? Are you perhaps taking donations?
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!
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
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
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.
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.
Hey there, I'm just another refugee from Reddit with no tech skills. Fumbled a bit trying to figure out this site, I'll begin to learn now that I was able to create an account, all thanks to you ✌️
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?
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!
Super excited to be here! Any suggestions for building my feed? Do I need to create accounts across multiple instances or can I subscribe to things across all using the search function?
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!
Whatever you are doing, you're doing an incredible job at optimizing the instance. You are faster than my closest instances despite being half the world away. Thanks!
I'm a reddit refugee and after looking at lemmy instances to join for a week, I've settled on this because I like the admin policies and self regulation of content. Thank you for setting this up for everyone.
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.
Looks like the rush is over, the total users number has flattened out according the-federation.info/platform/73. Probably a good thing since it was getting a bit hectic with the sudden demand. Anyway this instance is performing very nicely on desktop browser for me, very little lag or delay anywhere. It's a pleasant experience. Thanks to the admin for an excellent server, also nice you're on the latest updates.
Unfortunately, my previous instance has had some issues with stability and database corruption repeatedly. Lost posts, subscriptions etc. I am here now due to the similar federation policy, which I believe is the right one. The performance is also great. Very promising!
Ok, so this is my first time using lemmy, been about almost a week since I deleted the official reddit app. Was annoying with the ads, but what made me finally delete it, was it not respecting my wishes that I didn’t want notifications, constantly asking about it again. I used Apollo which was pretty great, but it would have been nice having the Sync app I had on android, there was just nothing like it. Now since July 1st I switched over to the official app, but that’s just bad. Hope I have a nice time here! They should fix logging in with the site, cause that just doesn’t work, having no effect when I log in. Luckily this works, am curious :)
The Memmy app works just fine, but with the site on Opera on the iPad 7th Gen and iPhone SE 2020 when you put in your details and push the green login button it becomes a spinny wheel then immediately back to log in. Maybe not with all device and app configurations, but yeah, that’s my problem with the site.
When you delete a comment, can you also remove your username from that comment? I deleted some comments and it still showed my username on my end. Checked here in this topic if someone deleted their comment and someone has, but you can still see his/her username.
on top of that, the deletion doesn't always propagate well to other instances, so it may happen that you see your comment as deleted, but a day later someone will reply to it, because it wasn't deleted from his instance.
Libreddit refugee here, so glad there is a working alternative for Reddit still, thank you! I will miss Libreddit, but I hope this will be a fresh start.
On behalf of all the refugees out there I can't thank you enough for creating this instance. I was shocked that subreddits with millions of followers, were willing to shoot themselves in the foot and jeopardize their userbase and the years information they contained just to play slackivist. It got to the point that I couldn't use reddit because of my subs were privated. If people really want to stick it to the man at RedditHQ, leave. Reddit was supposed to be about the people and the community. I guess we forgot about...
Enough about that, thank for making a place for us Reddit expatriates and refugees.
Can confirm, I hate that bot and blocked it myself. The most useless thing ever, I hope someone deactivates it or that it's auto-blocked for new users.
I created an account here after struggling for weeks on .world. I sincerely hope they can figure out all the issues because I still consider there my "home" for now ;)
Hello, so for some reason there isn't a "show NSFW" option in the settings? I don't really subscribe to anything for that, but I'd like the option to decide for myself in my subscriptions. I'd this just an error on my part?
I just created my account here, my main account is from Lemmy.world, but as it is a good thing to spread on the Fediverse (and also Lemmy.world is struggling to keep alive because of diverse reasons) I created an account in another instance and this one.
My biggest concern right now is the .ee domain, wouldn't this be a problem for not that popular domains to end up like lemmy.fmhy.ml did?
I mean, it seems like a very unusual scenario, but yet I could never see this happening to .com or .net domains.
Thanks for the instance! What is this instance's stance on privacy? (for example, do you intend to keep logs indefinitely, and do you only keep the minimum data necessary to run the service)
Hi there! Thanks for creating and maintaining all this, I really appreciate it! Really excited about the concept of the fediverse. Looking forward to my time here!
Hi, I've been enjoying lemmy for the past couple of days. The only things that I miss from reddit is the grid view from the Shine for Reddit chrome extension and the multi-subreddit feature. I feel like making custom multi-communities threads would benefit lemmy tremendously to keep track of similar communities across all instances. Also I would like suggestions for VR communities as I currently can only find one. Also thanks for making this lemmy instance.
As mannnyyyyy before me have already said, I too am a New Lemmy'er? ( How does one refer to users of Lemmy? Lol!) Refuge from Reddit. I was a long time adopter of the Boost app, which I just saw the dev announce that he plans to make a Lemmy app! (Woohoo!)
Been on Reddit for nearly 10 years, but looking forward to this new adventure and fresh beginning.
For the moment, I am paying for most of it, but we already have one gracious supporter who is helping with the costs.
I have set up a sponsorship page to allow kind users from the community to share the cost with me, you can check out more details about funding and our infrastructure on this page.
I'm excited to be a part of this community! I only started browsing Reddit a few years ago (a coworker wouldn't stop talking about it) and posted maybe 10 or so times in that time because it just seemed like a sea of undulating noise. I don't recall a single username from there. Things feel a little cozier here and you seem like an honest and communicative admin so I'm optimistic!
I appreciate the approach you are taking with the infrastructure. I’m glad to have chosen this server! Your approach and transparency inspired me to sponsor. Thanks for all the great work you are doing on behalf of this community!
I'm another user coming from lemmy.world. Had a lot of connectivity issues there and hoping this is a more stable instance. This also seems like a safe option to help offload bigger servers and balance out the network.
I'm also from Vlemmy. Not a word from the Admin; just vanished. A day or so before they had posted about defederating with some instances known for CP/CSA due to Vlemmy being hosted in Ireland, which has law against allowing such things to be hosted on your server, even in cartoon form.
One theory is he got spooked/warned by law enforcement and just noped out.
I’ve been here for a couple weeks now and of the instances I’ve tried out this one definitely suits me the best for now. I signed up for GitHub just so I can support the server via sponsorships. Thanks for all the work you do!
From what I can tell, Lemm.ee and Lemmy.world are still federated but I can’t see posts from my lemmy.world community for the past week or so…any idea what’s happening?
Thanks for building a Reddit alternative! For some reason whenever I visit a community it looks like I’m not logged in even though I seem to be on the homepage. Is this a bug or am I an idiot? Also, when I find a community via search there’s no subscribe option- may be related to 1st question, but also could be bc I’m on an iPhone mini. Columns are breaking mid-word on my screen, so maybe the design just isn’t optimizing for this size.
Hello. Thank you for setting this up. So far I enjoy lemmy a lot more than reddit. Right now I am having trouble replying to a comment on a lemmy.world community. So this is a test post too.
✏️ got it. I had to choose a language in the drop down or it wouldn't work (just in case someone else is having the same problem right now)
Howdy! I’m a Reddit refugee (RIP Apollo) who initially joined Vlemmy until whatever happened there forced me to find a new instance to join. Now I feel like a double refugee! But lemm.ee seems like a nice place to end up. Thanks for having me!
Deep comment trees are bugging out and either duplicating previously displayed comments or loading forever, not loading up the comments I'm trying to see. Can any admin contact the Lemmy dev team and ask them to fix it?
Sry I'm new to lemmy and this shit is confusing af, accounts are bound to an instance right.
So if a instance goes down, does that mean all accounts would be gone? Would people lose all post/comments regardless in which community/instance they posted?
This sounds like a big potential future problem!
Regardless "serious long term" sounds sounds good!
I'm hoping someone can help me out with the federation side of all this.
I created an account in lemmy.world, it was getting bogged down by all the new traffic. I then created an account here (lemm.ee). I am currently using the app liftoff to do all this. I am logged into both accounts (same username). How is this comment saved?
If for instance, lemm.ee were to shutdown would everything posted here disappear? Or because I am logged into the lemmy.world instance would it still be there? I'm just trying to embrace the new world and do things properly from the beginning to try and reduce fragmentation.
Thank you for setting up a new instance for folks to try Lemmy out!
I tried picking an instance that wasn't the overloaded one, and got asked for a darn background check, so I appreciate the welcoming stance of lemme.ee!
Hi, I like it here so far. But I have a small issue:
When I filter my feed by "active" or "top" (or anything really), if I wait a bit I can see that new threads still appear at the top, above the sorted ones. Is this a bug, or a feature that I can configure?
First, lemm.ee was my first ever Lemmy instance, loved it here. This site worked absolutely flawless so far.
So, my hot take: I discovered lemm.ee blocked Threads, fair, that's not up for discussion from my side. Does anyone can suggest me a nice instance where Threads is federated? I'm curious about this infamous huge amount of content I cannot access from here (and no, Threads app is still not available in my country).
I've been on .world since a few weeks before the reddit 3rd party app ordeal. But I abandoned .world due to their Threads federation. I've been off lemmy for most of a few weeks but have been missing it.
Just wanted to say thank you for creating this instance! I was hoping to find one with community creation, downvotes, and no Threads federation.
Seems like a great fit. Do you have a donation page? If I like it here after a little while, I'd be happy to pitch in a little bit. I had been donating to .world until they confirmed Threads federation...
Edit: Couldn't take the federation with tankies here, and since blocking an instance only blocks posts (not user interaction), I've moved on to feddit.de.
I am a refugee but not from Reddit. I have come from other Lemmy instances that stopped working or were shutdown (noteably free media heck yeah) and antemeriddiem.
Stilllllllllll can't subscribe/find [email protected]. I tried searching the full address, partial, just the name.. hopefully issues like this will be resolved.
I have a really strange question. How do you access the sidebar on the Jerboa for Lemmy app? I really want to read the rules but can't find them. I'm sure it's easier on desktop I just don't have access to that right now. If anyone could help out I'd really appreciate it!
Has anyone had any luck blocking the bot at zerobytes.monster? I was successful in blocking lemmit online bot. But so far I cannot get anything to work.
Thanks for putting this together! Happy to join this lil community :)
I had a question about the fediverse in general. Lets say I sign up on one instance, and one day that instance shuts down. Is my account lost? Or can you transfer your account between instances?
I was interested in seeing how well posting from a random home instance would work. I had started to think I'd need to spin one up myself, given how many were closed. But it sounds like you're running this one the same way I'd want to run mine. It's working nicely so far.
If you hit a point where you need extra hands, please say something here. I'll offer to help, and I'm sure I'm not alone.
Welp, here's my first Lemmy post. With the way the federation thing is going right now, it kinda feels like the old days of creating a new social media account every few months, never knowing which was going to be the one to stick (RIP Friendster). I like this site's stated desire to be around long term. Fingers crossed!
If I want to see content from lemmy.ml for example, how can I do that? Do I need to use a specific community with the [COMMUNITY_NAME]@lemmy.ml? Or is there a way to have all that content appear on my lemm.ee feed?
Honest question, no snark. I'm new on this instance and I get that growing pains are happening. But okay, wth has this post been stuck on the top of every sort-view I choose (new, new-comments, most-active-comments, etc) for the past 48 hours? Is this instance-specific or is this protocol-wide? Something else?
I'm still trying to figure things out here. I created my username under the first instance I could where I found availability. Can I change my base instance to another? Or do I need to setup another username for instance I prefer?
I hate to keep bringing up weird sorting quirks...
but is anyone else running into 4 year old posts sticking at the top of some communities in Hot sort (like here: https://lemm.ee/c/[email protected])? It seems to be an instance specific thing.
Definitely not a big deal, but i thought I would mention it. Thanks again for keeping this place maintained! Server has been running great and i just added a community recently too. Can't wait for this community to grow.
I'm glad to have signed up with this instance. I hope we don't get many bad apples here, but I already like the setup and how communicative @[email protected] is. I will think of donating to the cause when I have something to spare. Thank you!
Truly appreciate you setting this up. I do have a question and readily admit I have not looked elsewhere, but, since you may be offering to answer: could I set up a "private" instance for me and a few friends that closes registration but is open to the rest of the fediverse? I assume so since a lot of the main sites seem to be slowing registration down but I am just curious how it all works. Would be a fun experiment for me.
Also, how difficult is it to manage from a sysadmin point of view?
Yep, it's totally possible to have a federated instance with closed sign-ups.
In terms of how difficult it is to manage - I would say it depends on your experience and how exactly you want to set things up. If you don't already have experience with setting up and monitoring servers in production then it might take you a while to figure things out.
Thanks a lot for setting this up! It's seems to be a very busy day for most lemmy servers, and it's quite tricky to set up a new account on some of the big ones today.
I can’t seem to upload an avatar or background, I keep being told every image is too large. I’ve shrunk the images as small as possible but they still won’t upload. Not sure what else to do.
Is "Hot" sort working? It doesn't seem to have updated in the past 12 hours or so... I don't know how the sorting options here work but yesterday Hot sort gave me much newer posts
Edit: seems to only be All/Hot... Id imagine some sort of federation shenanigans
Thanks for the report! I looked into this, it is mitigated for now and hot should be fresh again, but I need to invgestigate it more to figure out why it stopped updating in the first place and what a proper long-term fix would be.
For some context: Lemmy has a background process for constantly updating "hot", and this process seems to have just stealthily stopped working around 12 hours ago. I am going to do some debugging and see if I can't find the root cause, hopefully that way I'll be able to prevent it from happening again.
Might these deadlocked processes also be responsible for why the Communities (All) list seems so out of date, and why certain communities aren't showing all the comments against posts, etc. when you browse them on lemm.ee?
e.g. compare Communities listing on lemm.ee to lemm.ml. Lemm.ml shows lots of communities with thousands of members, and makes Lemmy seem like a vibrant community with tons of users.
For example, if you search for "security", you just see 3 cybersecurity communities, including [email protected] with 7 subscribers. Do the same earch on lemmy.ml and you see many more communities, including [email protected], but now showing several thousand members.
Or is this just my misunderstanding of how those things are supposed to work? Do those communities/and thread comments only update if a local lemm.ee-registered user has subscribed? i.e. a limitation of Lemmy rather than something out of sync on lemm.ee specifically...? Shame if so, because it makes it pretty useless for finding communities to subscribe to without browsing other instances.
Hey, can I ask if there are any plans to defederate from Hexbear and Lemmygrad? The users on those instances are extremely toxic, especially the former.
Signing in hangs for me. Registered (since lemmy.ml server performance is degrading with all the new users) but sign in just fails silently. Think it's capcha-related.
How did you get it running? Neither the docker image nor the ansible playbook gave me a working version. Mostly it's the lemmy-ui part that seems to fail.
Silly question and please point me elsewhere if it's not the place to ask, just want to make sure I understand Lemmy properly. Now I'm signed up to the Lemm.ee instance, to share a community I set up, it's just "name"@lemm.ee correct?
Can someone please tell me what are the rules for uploading images? It keep saying me image too big but doesn't give me any indication about size, or resolution, or pixels. It's user-hostile.