lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month
lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month
Lemmy - A link aggregator for the fediverse
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/65824884
Hey everyone
We’re really sorry to say this, but lemm.ee will be shutting down on June 30, 2025.
What you need to know
As of now:
- New user registrations are disabled
- Creating new communities is disabled
What you should do:
- You can export your settings at https://lemm.ee/settings to take them with you to another instance.
- If you're moving to another instance, consider adding a note to your lemm.ee profile with your new username. Your old profile will still be visible from other instances even after we go offline.
- Alternatively, if you want to delete your lemm.ee profile, now is the best time to do it, so the deletion can federate out before we go offline.
- If you're one of the folks supporting us with a recurring donation, please remember to cancel it (Ko-Fi donations should have been cancelled automatically already). Our leftover funds are already enough to cover our bills for next month, so we can keep things running without any more support.
Because of how Lemmy is built, everything posted on lemm.ee will still be accessible from other instances, even after we go offline.
Why this is happening
The key reason is that we just don’t have enough people on the admin team to keep the place running. Most of the admin team has stepped down, mostly due to burnout, and finding replacements hasn’t worked out.
The sad reality is that while there are a lot of great people on Lemmy, 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. Please understand why our admins chose to step down, and be kind to the admins on whatever instance you decide to join.
We know this sucks. We're genuinely sorry it’s ending like this. Thank you to everyone who spent time here and helped make it better.
– lemm.ee team
This really makes me wonder if we should have more admins here on Blahaj in case Ada ends up feeling burnt out. I don't really see Kaity around at all so it's just her doing the moderation for the whole instance.
If I could add an instance level moderator that didn't have full admin permissions, I'd do so in a heart beat. As it is though, it's hard to trust the keys to the castle when the only avenue for building trust is lemmy interactions.
That being said, we do have a bot admin that trusted users have access to, that Kaity developed, which helps us deal with spammers and throwaway bigot accounts.
Also, we don't actually have that much going on in terms of moderation workload. Our sign ups are manually approved, but our bot helps with that so it's not all on me. Our large communities have active mods. So I'm lucky if I have to look at more than 3 or 4 reports a day.
Also, if we ever reach the burnout point, we would hand the community over before taking it down.
It's really good to hear that you would hand the community over before shutting it down. As for right now though, I think there could be a more public face to this extended moderation team? .World has their "server moderators", who I think work via bot as well, quite publicly talked about and empowered to interact with the community. I think that might be a way to achieve a balance, and would mean that reports that require interaction can be seen to outside of your own timezone.
I don't know, it's not like there are moderation issues right now, but it would give you the capacity to take yours eyes off things for a day or two and unwind, and I think that's important.
Yes, they probably should. Burnout is rife even with more than one admin/moderator ioo. So as long as they can all be trusted there should probably be a lot more, especially paid, admins and mods, donations willing.
I'm not sure about paid, but I mean, if there's will for it by the userbase I'd chip in. I think there's a decent amount of people who would be good at the role and want to volunteer.