There are already lemmy compatible solutions.
Don’t need another fork / competitor unless it has big features that other don’t have.
Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month
lasers4eyes@piefed.social 3 days ago
Very unfortunate, lemm.ee had a real promise of being a flagship lemmy instance.
But I'm generally curious, as someone who really has no knowledge on software development, what are the chances lemmy could fork? Could we see any progress on this foss project?
MemmingenFan923@feddit.org 3 days ago
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 3 days ago
What does forking have to do with this instance shutdown? They were lacking admins for running the instance, not developers.
lasers4eyes@piefed.social 3 days ago
Because a couple weeks ago, the lemm.ee crew made a post asking for donations and their comment section immediately went dumpster fire mode. Not saying they can't ask for donations, but I can imagine its very problematic considering that the lead developers themselves are very hateful, transphobic and have questionable political opinions.
You cannot possibly convice me that didn't somehow influence this decision to shutdown the instance. And if lemmy doesn't find a way to keep that stuff down we're def gonna see more instances shutting down.
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Iirc the request for donations was a repost from .ml the instance run by the devs of lemmy software, not a request by the admins of lemm.ee for support.
lasers4eyes@piefed.social 3 days ago
I think we're talking about different posts, here is the one I'm talking about: lemm.ee/post/63041344
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 3 days ago
They didn’t, that was a post asking to donate to lemmy, the software.
I can because it’s completely irrelevant, and what stopped this instance seems to have nothing to do with the development, but rather to do with the amount of volunteers and their work load.