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!

  • Belgdore@lemm.eeEnglish
    1422·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • mahhkk@lemm.eeEnglish
    1101·
    2 years ago

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

  • dawnerd@lemm.eeEnglish
    41·
    2 years ago

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

  • Trev625@lemm.ee
    311·
    1 year ago

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

  • straightfive@lemm.eeEnglish
    24·
    1 year 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!

  • FlihpFlorp@lemm.eeEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    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

  • MyOpinion@lemm.eeEnglish
    20·
    1 year ago

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

  • potopato@lemm.eeEnglish
    171·
    1 year ago

    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!

  • faintedheart@lemm.ee
    16·
    1 year ago

    Just created an account here now. Has an account on lemmy.world. It faces serious downtime. Looking forward to having a nice experience here.

  • littlecolt@lemm.eeEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    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!

  • zodlmee@lemm.eeEnglish
    13·
    2 years ago

    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.