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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!

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[–] [email protected] 157 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 112 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Another Reddit refugee here - thanks for setting up this instance.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Thanks for setting this up, looks like there's an issue with the profile pic upload, returns a 400

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

Hey, I'll take a look at this soon and figure out a solution.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Hey, replying here so you get notified: I posted an update regarding image uploads here

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Indeed. I get "SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data".

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I got the same trying to post an image comment.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Hello! I'm moving over from Lemmy.World due to federation issues and heard this place was better. Currently using the Connect app!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Same!

Also because their recent stance on piracy!

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So I’m new to this whole decentralization thing. I’m using the Memmy app on my phone thru apples test flight. An example they used was lemm.ee is like our local post office, we send letters to our neighbor down the street but can also receive a funny letter from far away places like lemmy.world and lemmy.ml. Is that a good example?

Like lemm.ee is totally self sufficient from lemmy.world but I can still see their content

And one quick question. What makes a good server, because I just chose this one because it was at the top of a list when I made my account and I have no clue what I’m doing

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That analogy is not bad!

If I was picking a home server, I would consider:

  1. Do the rules match with my values?
  2. Are there indications that the server is being run well?
  3. Has the server defederated from any other servers which I want to interact with?
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for the reply but a few silly questions

So point 1 for servers their rules are sort of ground rules how does that differ from communities. Like I’m on the lemm.ee server and I think gaming is on a kbin server so it follows the kbin rules. But for posts on lemm.ee the server rules are the ground rules. Like Reddit has its redetiquette rules and then each subreddit also has its own rules; is that kinda similar

For point 2 I saw an admin post saying they plan to stay open long term so ig that’s a good sign but are there any other indicators. If lemm.ee is a bad home server ig now it doesn’t matter since my account is new but later down the line is there a way to migrate to another server. On that note besides being shut down what is a good indicator that a server is bad

For point 3 does defederated essentially mean blocked. Like an admin of lemm.ee basically says I don’t want you seeing stuff on lemmy.world

My own stupid question but servers host communities and each kinda looping back to point 1 each server has its own ground rules then each community has its own additional rules similar to subreddits

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Like Reddit has its redetiquette rules and then each subreddit also has its own rules; is that kinda similar

Yes! lemm.ee does not have a lot of rules, but the ones we do have will apply to all of our users regardless of what community they post on (even if it's a community hosted on kbin). There are two reasons for this:

  1. The most important one - everything posted by lemm.ee users will be hosted on lemm.ee servers.
  2. The second one - our rules are designed to keep the overall impact of our users a positive one on other communities. If our users follow the rules everywhere, then there is much less chance of lemm.ee getting defederated by other instances for moderation issues.

But you're right that community rules may still apply on top of our basic server rules. Each community is free to set up their rules however they want!

On that note besides being shut down what is a good indicator that a server is bad

It's hard to give an objective answer to this, unfortunately. All I can tell you is that I am intent on keeping lemm.ee alive for the long term. I have already paid for bits of our infrastructure for a year in advance!

For point 3 does defederated essentially mean blocked

Yes, users do not see any content from defederated instances.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Ok cool and thanks for being super helpful :)

I’m assuming you admin people are a good place to ask for any help in the future

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago

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!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago

I am a reddit and now lemmy.world refugee. Things just seem to work here. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

There is no cross-login. You login on your current instance and get to follow communitites, users, threads, etc from other instances from within your current instance.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Thanks for creating this instance! Reddit refugee here enjoying the discovery phase of what appears to be the new place. I was part of the digg migration to reddit over 11 years ago. The exodus from reddit to Lemmy feels similar. Using Jerboa for Android: so far so good.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just created an account here! I've been on Lemmy since the Black Out, at lemmy.world.

However I wasn't happy with Lemmy.world admin decisions concerning defederation (They didn't want to preemptively defederate Meta but they did it with some socialist instance) and inconsistent uptime. Lots of people are recommending this instance, so I decided to move here!

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Literally coming from reddit. This is a great first impression!

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

Just created an account here, hello everyone :)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Thank you so much! Recent events on Reddit have compelled me to explore alternative platforms, and I'm genuinely intrigued by the outcome. Will Reddit meet its demise? Will Lemmy flourish? It's incredibly fascinating to see what lies ahead. Additionally, I'd like to inquire about donating to your cause. How I can contribute to this Lemmy instance or support your efforts?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ngl I joined this instance just because I think the logo is cute, with the e e as the eyes

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nice work!

I was very close to buying the lemm.ee domain last week! I'm glad you got it and could put it to good use. I ended up going with a different domain (upvote.au) for my instance instead.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Take an upvote for upvote.au 😁

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (10 children)

Hello! Just a test comment, using Sync for Lemmy.

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[–] lupec 12 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I like how you've set lemm.ee up, thinking of signing up. Out of curiosity, is not having any instance blocked a policy of sorts? I ask because I couldn't help but notice this is the largest instance with no blacklist according to awesome-lemmy-instances, and I do rather enjoy the idea of being able to have a home from where I can mostly enjoy lemmy as I see fit.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey, you are very welcome to join!

Regarding the blocklist, I don't have any policy to never block any instance, it's just that no other instance has caused issues for lemm.ee yet.

If another instance begins systematically breaking our rules in our communities, or doing anything else that would cause significant harm to lemm.ee, then for sure I wouldn't hesitate to add them to our blocklist!

But I do treat this as a nuclear option - I am a huge fan of the fedearated network in general, and I really think that widespread mutual defederation between healthy instances is not good for the network.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Another Reddit refugee. I always feel facinated when discovering open source alternatives to things I use. Thank you!!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

New members, after you’ve gotten acclimated, please consider financially supporting lemm.ee. This place is extremely well run and useful!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

Things are much peppier over here than at the .world! 👍

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

Motivated to quit reddit b/c of changes to advert policy

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I deleted my twelve year reddit account yesterday as soon as the Sync app gave the error. The day the internet died! Kinda bittersweet. I'm subscribing to a number of Lemmy communities that may develop into the type of places I used to hang out. I tend to lurk unless there is a thread subject on which I have some expertise and think a comment would add value. It is like starting over to find those specialized subject areas and posters here but I'm treating it like a new adventure. I never had a Twitter account but am also giving Mastodon a try too. Thanks for lemm.ee and the fediverse alternative!

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Hey everyone! Excited to get started with lemmy :)

Does anyone have recommendations for fairly active communities? In particular a community for informative videos along the lines of r/mealtimevideos would be great

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Hello! Came over here from .world because of issues on posting commenting over there (hope they get resolved though). Glad to be a part of this instance. I'll probably fight with my alter-ego on the .world instance as well.

Random: For the whole fediverse, I hope there would be a community/sub like thanosdidnothingwrong. I was spared on the last iteration on the big old R.

I wonder how I'd fare this time.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you for setting this up. For the most part, I understand the federated nature of Lemmy, but finding an instance that doesn't get bogged down to the point where I can't log in or can't sign up for a new account...that has been incredibly frustrating.

Can I ask how you're funding this? Are you perhaps taking donations?

Cheers :)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I am funding this with the help of our awesome community! I have a GitHub sponsorships page, and also a Ko-Fi donations page as a back-up.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Reddit -> VLemmy -> Lemm.ee here, like several others! Whenever I have trouble reaching Lemm.ee now I immediately assume it imploded. 😆 Fingers crossed it has a long and successful existence!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Hi! Coming from Reddit, I really want an iOS app like Apollo to browse Lemmy.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Thank you for this. Now I can feel I'm supporting a service that actually thinks about its users and not some ass like reddit.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I didn't even know this existed until people started talking about it in the last month. Glad I was able to get here before all the reddit apps shutdown

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Still trying to wrap my head around Lemmy, but I appreciate the server!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Switching to here for lemmy.world since I joined it when it was still fresh, now it's overloaded on a daily basis at this point

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Hello fellow redditors and especially hello dear lemm...ings? What do we call ourselves when we move here? I hope enough people bleed over to here to populate the site so that we have an abundance of content!

I'm just off the boat. Deleted the boost for reddit, deleted my posts, deleted my account.

I'm looking forward to this growth equally as much as I am looking forward to the downfall of reddit.

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