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Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month

JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Completely. This feels like a major communications fail. It’s a basic technique of fundraising and mobilization: put a big ticking clock on your campaign and people will step up in time.

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anzo@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Yet, they’re entitled to their own decisions, triumphs and failures. So, they can shutdown the instance. Now, it would be a different thing if people really want them to be around again, raise some money, grab a backup, buy the domain name, let’s gooo!! …or not. Fine by me. If only 2 users from the instance decided to start a new one this is a huge win :)

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- SorteKanin@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  actually starting a new instance on the same domain name would be… very weird, potentially extremely problematic. The system would not be able to tell apart users from the old site and the new site.
  
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gila@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I think you’re missing the point. The call for new admin volunteers was stickied by the instance for an extended period. Even using an app rather than the web interface, it was stuck at the top of my feed until I hid the post.

The group of people who ignored that call to action yet would have volunteered with a follow-up post of a “big ticking clock” as it were, aren’t necessarily the type of people you want to admin an instance. Especially one as big as lemm.ee. Certainly, if any admin will do then increasing recruitment efforts makes sense.

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- JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Fair enough. But whether this is a technical problem or a human problem, it is a problem. Silly for people to be denying that IMO.
  
  If servers are going to come and go every 3 months at the whim of individuals, then - IMO - maybe there are are too many servers. Anecdotally, I picked my particular one for this very reason. Seems I anticipated well.
  
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  - gila@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I guess it depends on what your individual priorities are for this sort of platform. I already created and later abandoned @gila@lemmy.world after they blocked piracy comms, and in hindsight feel that was the right decision - hence creating this account after learning I’ll soon be unable to access @gila@lemm.ee. At the end of the day, the ability to migrate to another instance with a different approach on issues like federation, moderation & administration is part of what drew me to this platform. If lemm.ee compromised on their approach simply to remain active - I’d likely have migrated away from it anyway.
    
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