• Reyali@lemm.ee
    18·
    2 months ago

    Dang. Thank you for posting this; most informative shitpost ever! (I missed the official announcement.)

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    18·
    2 months ago

    My first instance shut down permanently within days of my signing up. I believe it had sometime remotely doing with Russia suddenly deciding to invade Ukraine.

    It really gave me that full cyberpunk experience.

    • amda@feddit.nl
      11·
      2 months ago

      My first instance also shut down pretty quickly after I started using it, but not for major conflict reasons. I’ll get the cyberpunk experience some other time I guess… 😔

  • killeronthecorner@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    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.

    While I respect their decision I feel like these people will just move on to other instances to do the same thing.

    I don’t know all the details but it smells a bit “tolerant of the intolerant” and that these people should have been shown the door before it got to the point of shutting down (other reasons aside - they’re all valid)

    • ramble81@lemmy.zip
      4·
      2 months ago

      The bad actors probably will move. But the problem is 99% of instance admins are volunteers and do it because they want to. It’s much harder to deal with that shit when it’s a labor of love and you’re not getting paid.

      Most were “shown the door” as you mentioned but like spam, it’s a tsunami that’s hard to deal with on a large scale.

      • killeronthecorner@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        Absolutely, but these problems are common to all the instances. Maybe I interpreted it wrong, it sounded like they were directly engaging the bad actors over management of the platform, and doing that rather than just quietly banning them and moving on.

        And to be clear I’m all for open collaboration and taking feedback, but I’ve seen this occur for Lemmy apps where loud and overbearing voices try and dominate the conversation to the benefit of noone, until Devs either stop responding or shut things down.

        Regardless, it’s sad to lose an instance and I hope the admins find something rewarding to invest in without having to deal with the internet’s worst members.

  • originaltnavn@lemm.ee
    33·
    2 months ago

    Now don’t get me wrong, I am not hype about moving from a great instance, but I feel this has been a great demonstration of why the federation is a good idea. All in all, migrating has been a fairly smooth experience, and most communities are either on other places or are moving fairly structured. Previously, closure of services or enshitification has caused me to spend weeks to months hunting for new places to read. This has been a great experience in most ways, and I think I can live happily jumping from instance to instance like this for a few years until I give up and set up my own.

      • originaltnavn@lemm.ee
        3·
        2 months ago

        Partially, at least not what I use regularly. The account settings has a system for exporting settings, communities and block lists. You cant really retroactively move comments and posts to have been made by another user, but making a post on both the old and new users claiming eachother should propagate to other instances and be archived correctly.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      Also, old content won’t be gone. It’ll still be around. Hell, people can still even reply to stuff. Inactive lemm.ee communities won’t have new comments propagate to instances past where the original commenter is from, but still!

    • MeThisGuy@feddit.nl
      2·
      2 months ago

      lemm.ee be real. your instance is fucked.

      onto the next one.

      but that’s the beauty of the fediverse… you can’t stop us all.

      one for all, all for one

    • Dharma Curious@startrek.website
      3·
      2 months ago

      If you are into solar punk slrpnk.net has been amazing for me. Due to some weird timing with the admin being out of town when the servers went down they’re down right now for a bit, so I’m not sure when they’ll be back up and running. But the current situation is a hiccup, not a consistent issue. I love the server, and if anything, the community reaction to the admin being unable to fix this for a few weeks has made me love it even more.

      • RagingHungryPanda@piefed.socialEnglish
        5·
        2 months ago

        there is one issue that I’ve found - my work blocks lemmy.zip, so I’m using the piefed account I made to test it.

        My guess is that it ends in “.zip” and is getting blocked, b/c the rest of lemmy they aren’t bothering with.

      • Vespair@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        I don’t love their decision to defederate hexbear, but otherwise I like this instance.

        Not to say I don’t understand their reasoning for defederating, because I do, I just prefer as little defeds as possible aside from corporate influence (fuck threads)

    • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      https://join-lemmy.org/instances

      the advice i’ve heard is pick one that isn’t too big but not too small either. spend some time looking at the local communities to see if they align with what you want. .zip is focused on gaming and tech which is me. others are politics heavy. some are widely defederated, which may be the only thing that really matters-- you don’t want one that everyone can’t stand (.ml, etc)

    • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
      10·
      2 months ago

      I’m on SDF for its no-defederation policy and because SDF outside of Lemmy has a proven track record of public service and longevity. Like SDF is much older than I am. Occasionally there are hiccups and the SDF team is a bit slow to respond, but otherwise it’s been a good time. And the people here seem pretty chill too.

      For my needs it’s the best one. But you might want something with a curated feed, a particular political orientation, a smaller or less crowded instance, or something else.