Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month
fievel@lemm.ee 9 months ago
First thank you for the work (always keeping server up to date, fixing issues quickly, blocking spam,…).
Now time to think about migrating, any advices for another great instance?
Discuss.Online has fantastic admins. The uptime rate there is breathtaking. I hopped across many instances before I settled there.
PieFed is also pretty fantastic too, with so very many features that Lemmy lacks - like flairs (post and user), voting polls, categories of communities, which are user customizable and shareable, etc.
I moved over to piefed.social - it's another platform, but federated with lemmy, and has some nice features like subscribing to whole topics instead of individual communities.
I may be biased, but lemmy.ca is pretty great
i might join it, eventhough im not canadian.
I may be biased
So far everyone has recommended their home instance. 😆
I recommend… Wait, shit
I’m migrating to lemmy.zip, at least for the short term. They also have public instance reports, which was the major reason I joined lemm.ee. Transparency and accountability is essential. I guess the fact that those reports got more and more sparse at lemm.ee was a canary in the coal mine here…
Enjoy lemmy.zip, it’s great!
I’m very happy with infosec.pub. If I had to pick a different one, then I would choose lemmy.dbzer0.com.
These days, join-lemmy is pretty good at narrowing down instances to match your likes.
I disagree. Some of its top recommendations include lemmynsfw.com (I have nothing against NSFW but go there and read their admin posts - they have been struggling for a long time so like lemm.ee not stable), beehaw.org (a fantastic instance but I feel like one not to be casually recommended to people without explanation), hilariouschaos.com (are you fucking kidding me with this neonazi shit?), lemmy.ml (certainly nothing ever controversial can be said about that one - at least not while on that platform!😜😞), and all of this is just what I noticed today but in the past iirc multiple times even it has suggested hexbear.net to me.
So no, I don't recommend the recommendation of this site to people.
::shudders:: hexbear…yikes!
Sopuli.xyz is a great medium sized general purpose instance. Good admins that update to the latest Lemmy release consistently.
Lemmy.cafe could be another option if you’d prefer a smaller general purpose instance that’s also run by a solid admin.
Tagging so I have this pinned. I need to find a new instance
I choose lemmy.zip at the end. I hope this one will stay longer (I started on vlemmy.net which was put offline without notice and then I switched to lemm.ee…).
Just do it like me and create a couple accounts here and there while also migrating settings.
Lemmy.cafe could be another option if you’d prefer a smaller general purpose instance (to help spread the load and prevent the burnout that lemm.ee experienced) that’s also run by a solid admin.
Some feedback on lemmy.cafe: it used to be my alt for a few weeks end of 2024. I liked the idea of the instance, and the them, and Illecors (the admin) was indeed quite nice to talk too.
That being said, there was an issue that lasted from 22th of November to 18th of January with the thumbnails not loading, while other instances running the same version didn’t have those issues: lemmy.cafe/post/9986198
I know that Illecors did his best, and people should definitely give the instance a try if they are interested, but this is just a warning to keep in mind that this is an instance mostly run by one person, so troubleshooting can take a bit of time.
That’s a good point. On a similar note, Programming.dev had pretty severe database breakage that took quite some time to fix, but thankfully both instances seem to be healthy and working well nowadays. :)
Oh yeah, that was quite something too 😅
Many thanks for that curated list
Thank you!
I need a recommendation as well. Lemm.ee was my gateway to Lemme.
Me too. I’m wondering where to go next. I can’t really search until I get home later.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
sh.itjust.works has lived up to its name