Welcome to lemm.ee!
Welcome to lemm.ee!
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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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?
I really appreciate that, I'm sure other users of lemm.ee will as well!
I initially set up GitHub sponsorships for accepting donations, but today I received some feedback that some folks would rather donate on Ko-Fi, so I have a Ko-Fi donations page now as well.
Hey, I saw your GitHub sponsor page and the goal you’ve set up there and I generally like to participate in that. My question is about the amount we’re talking here. You set a goal of 50 monthly sponsors to cover the cost, but that could be 50 people donating $2 per month or 50 people donating $50 per month.
So if you can provide that in public I‘d like to have a general idea of the actual costs you have to cover in the foreseeable future so that I know what would be appropriate cause I have no clue and don’t want to be that guy that you get exited reading about a new sponsor only to find out with what he put in you’d need 500 instead of 50 sponsors^^
50 people donating $2 per month would already cover over half of our current infra costs, so I would be extremely happy with that!
The actual current cost (after today's database upgrade) is just under $200 a month, so in the grand scheme of things, it's not a massive sum right now, and people chipping in even a few bucks every month will help out.