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!
How do I make this post hidden? It’s always at the top of my feed.
Depends on what frontend/app you are using. You might have an option in their settings to hide posts you have already interacted with.
I don’t know why I didn’t bother to check those settings. I think I assumed they were app specific and not tied to the instance I was logged into. I got it. Thanks.
Hello! I’m moving over from Lemmy.World due to federation issues and heard this place was better. Currently using the Connect app!
Same!
Also because their recent stance on piracy!
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.
Another Reddit refugee. I always feel facinated when discovering open source alternatives to things I use. Thank you!!
Wee! Thanks for lemmeeing me in! :)
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 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.
Welcome 🤗 Dood!
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!
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.
Sure
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 didn’t know threads was defederated why?
I thought the whole point if this instance was not to needlessly defederate. I’m a bit pissed with that decisions because the guy that runs the site said “look I’m not going to get rid of the tankies because this isn’t about defederating with everyone and just having your own views” fair enough I agree im all for freedom of speech. But why are we choosing to have the tankies and not threads? What’s the difference.
Same here. I’m curious to at least check out the Threads integration with the fediverse, though mostly only out of curiosity. I probably wouldn’t like my feed flooded with posts from Threads, so I mostly just want to briefly check it out.
Another Reddit refugee here - thanks for setting up this instance.
My first comment! I wish lemmy a bright future 👍
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 hosting this. Refugee from Reddit.
Thanks for setting this up, looks like there’s an issue with the profile pic upload, returns a 400
Hey, replying here so you get notified: I posted an update regarding image uploads here
why can’t upload my cover and Logo for Dhaka Robotics
Please read the sidebar on the front page:
- Advertising is not allowed here
- Accounts younger than 4 weeks are not allowed to upload images
Hey, I’ll take a look at this soon and figure out a solution.
Indeed. I get “SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data”.
Whew, I thought it was just me and I’ve been trying to figure out how people are uploading images.
