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.

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

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

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

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!

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

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!

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

Just created an account here, hello everyone :)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

I don't know what to type but hi 🙃

Hey y'all. Reddit refugee here.. Excited to be a part of Lemmy! Still a bit confused about account creation.. Is it better to create different usernames for each Instances? I seem to be able to reuse the username on different instances that I have logged into. Doesn't this risk identity theft?

Hi guys. Well this is overwhelming! I wasn't on Reddit as long as many. 7½ years, and a bit shy of 300k Karma. So I feel like in that time I did my part. But it's nice to have an alternative.

I'm still learning the basics with Lemmy. What happens to my account if the instance that it was created on somehow....dies? Is that a stupid question? Sorry if it is.

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.

Coming here from Apollo, tried mastodon but felt too twitter-y so I quit

I hope this feels more Reddit-y

Can we defederate from hexbear please

Man this is refreshing to see, just recently deleted my Twitter and Reddit accounts bc it was just getting too frustrating dealing with how those sites are handled so I’m excited to see how this goes!

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

Is Lemm.ee broken? Such low visibility, activity, it feels dead. Something is not jiving.

Just started exploring the Fediverse (Mastodon first as an exile from the 'bird that's no longer a bird' app and thought I'd have a look at Lemmy too. So far I must say I'm really enjoying them both!

reddit refugee, thank you thank you

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!

Finally, something similar to Reddit that isn't the worst on the planet and is actually open source!!! I also like the layout! I feel like I'm supporting something better!

How do I remove this pinned post from my feed?

Looks like I joined the right place finally. Been looking for a good community since reddit killed itself.

I just created my account here, my main account is from Lemmy.world, but as it is a good thing to spread on the Fediverse (and also Lemmy.world is struggling to keep alive because of diverse reasons) I created an account in another instance and this one.

My biggest concern right now is the .ee domain, wouldn't this be a problem for not that popular domains to end up like lemmy.fmhy.ml did?

I mean, it seems like a very unusual scenario, but yet I could never see this happening to .com or .net domains.

Yet another reddit refugee. Thanks so much for setting this up. Going to try and get as many people as I can to make the switch over from reddit!

Whatever you are doing, you're doing an incredible job at optimizing the instance. You are faster than my closest instances despite being half the world away. Thanks!

Unfortunately, my previous instance has had some issues with stability and database corruption repeatedly. Lost posts, subscriptions etc. I am here now due to the similar federation policy, which I believe is the right one. The performance is also great. Very promising!

using this now

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What's the deal with this youtube_feed_bot? I've blocked the account but for newcomers to this instance that thing floods the local postings.

Wee! Thanks for lemmeeing me in! :)

hi!! also new, and also a relatively late reddit refugee, but i've heard of lemmy a long time ago

a friend recommended this instance and yall seem chill!!

Ok, so this is my first time using lemmy, been about almost a week since I deleted the official reddit app. Was annoying with the ads, but what made me finally delete it, was it not respecting my wishes that I didn’t want notifications, constantly asking about it again. I used Apollo which was pretty great, but it would have been nice having the Sync app I had on android, there was just nothing like it. Now since July 1st I switched over to the official app, but that’s just bad. Hope I have a nice time here! They should fix logging in with the site, cause that just doesn’t work, having no effect when I log in. Luckily this works, am curious :)

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.

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

Thanks for setting this up <3

When you delete a comment, can you also remove your username from that comment? I deleted some comments and it still showed my username on my end. Checked here in this topic if someone deleted their comment and someone has, but you can still see his/her username.

Hi there! Thanks for creating and maintaining all this, I really appreciate it! Really excited about the concept of the fediverse. Looking forward to my time here!

Libreddit refugee here, so glad there is a working alternative for Reddit still, thank you! I will miss Libreddit, but I hope this will be a fresh start.

Hey there, I'm just another refugee from Reddit with no tech skills. Fumbled a bit trying to figure out this site, I'll begin to learn now that I was able to create an account, all thanks to you ✌️

I am here, from reddit. Because reddit sucks, and this place is better

Hello 👋

Thank you for setting up this instance in wake of the great Reddit migration. It's nice to have alternatives.

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I’ve been here for a couple weeks now and of the instances I’ve tried out this one definitely suits me the best for now. I signed up for GitHub just so I can support the server via sponsorships. Thanks for all the work you do!

Uploading avatars/banners is broken at this moment. Didn't try posting images.

Request error: error sending request for url (http://10.114.0.3:8080/image): operation timed out

how much and where can i donate?

How do I make this post hidden? It’s always at the top of my feed.

Love this place!

I was so happy to see the app open. It's nice to see such a different way of communicating online. Long live the federation lol!

Have been a Reddit user since 2009. Has been difficult to make the transition. You get complacinet as you get older. I was never a big contributor but this seems like a solid alternative

Another vlemmy refugee here

Sry I'm new to lemmy and this shit is confusing af, accounts are bound to an instance right. So if a instance goes down, does that mean all accounts would be gone? Would people lose all post/comments regardless in which community/instance they posted? This sounds like a big potential future problem!

Regardless "serious long term" sounds sounds good!

Howdy! I’m a Reddit refugee (RIP Apollo) who initially joined Vlemmy until whatever happened there forced me to find a new instance to join. Now I feel like a double refugee! But lemm.ee seems like a nice place to end up. Thanks for having me!

Hello. Thank you for setting this up. So far I enjoy lemmy a lot more than reddit. Right now I am having trouble replying to a comment on a lemmy.world community. So this is a test post too.

✏️ got it. I had to choose a language in the drop down or it wouldn't work (just in case someone else is having the same problem right now)

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

Thanks for the instance! What is this instance's stance on privacy? (for example, do you intend to keep logs indefinitely, and do you only keep the minimum data necessary to run the service)

Thanks for hosting this. Refugee from Reddit.

Just joined, thank you!

Deep comment trees are bugging out and either duplicating previously displayed comments or loading forever, not loading up the comments I'm trying to see. Can any admin contact the Lemmy dev team and ask them to fix it?

Been here a month. I'm loving it

Hey, @sunaurus@lemm.ee, would it be possible to have different frontends, like old on lemmy.world?

Thank you

hexbear users are signing up on lemm.ee so they can continue to post in communities that defederated from them.

These accounts should be banned as they're clearly malicious actors abusing communities that had already banned them. Ban evasion.

Reddit refugee here. Delighted to be part of this new world. Unsure how to search for topics as the search function in Memmy doesn’t seem to work.

Looking forward to a bright new future without the horrors of the old republic.

Yeah it's pretty good

how small do avatars need to be? 14kb seems to be too big :(

From what I can tell, Lemm.ee and Lemmy.world are still federated but I can’t see posts from my lemmy.world community for the past week or so…any idea what’s happening?

Community: !classicrock@lemmy.world

Thanks for hosting the instance man!

How do we kick hexbear.net out of the Federation? No control being administered over spambots reposting endless reddit posts. Spam city.

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

I've been on .world since a few weeks before the reddit 3rd party app ordeal. But I abandoned .world due to their Threads federation. I've been off lemmy for most of a few weeks but have been missing it.

Just wanted to say thank you for creating this instance! I was hoping to find one with community creation, downvotes, and no Threads federation.

Seems like a great fit. Do you have a donation page? If I like it here after a little while, I'd be happy to pitch in a little bit. I had been donating to .world until they confirmed Threads federation...

Edit: Couldn't take the federation with tankies here, and since blocking an instance only blocks posts (not user interaction), I've moved on to feddit.de.

reddit + apollo refugee and happy to be here! excited to dive head-first into lemmy 🤙

Do you have any GitHub repositories or guides on how you've deployed your Lemmy infrastructure? Hopefully via terraform or the like?

Has anyone had any luck blocking the bot at zerobytes.monster? I was successful in blocking lemmit online bot. But so far I cannot get anything to work.

First, lemm.ee was my first ever Lemmy instance, loved it here. This site worked absolutely flawless so far.

So, my hot take: I discovered lemm.ee blocked Threads, fair, that's not up for discussion from my side. Does anyone can suggest me a nice instance where Threads is federated? I'm curious about this infamous huge amount of content I cannot access from here (and no, Threads app is still not available in my country).

How can I enable dark mode? my eyes hurts uuf

Thanks for doing this. Just starting/transferring today. Looks promising, excited about decentralized federation.

OtherNote: in your intro you have a link to an image with the text

This image explains it well

The image is completely illegible ... maybe get something a little higher res?

Oh, fragmentation.

Came here after vlemmy got nuked.

Infrastructure as Code, ‘eh? So, as a DevOps guy, I gotta ask… Terraform, Pulumi or CloudFormation? Something else?

Truly appreciate you setting this up. I do have a question and readily admit I have not looked elsewhere, but, since you may be offering to answer: could I set up a "private" instance for me and a few friends that closes registration but is open to the rest of the fediverse? I assume so since a lot of the main sites seem to be slowing registration down but I am just curious how it all works. Would be a fun experiment for me.

Also, how difficult is it to manage from a sysadmin point of view?

Could you please advise what image size is allowed as a profile and banner pics? I tried so many pics and all fails because "image is too large".

Just joined as a redd-fugee - thanks for setting up that instance!

I am a refugee but not from Reddit. I have come from other Lemmy instances that stopped working or were shutdown (noteably free media heck yeah) and antemeriddiem.

Reddit refugee. How do you start up your own instance thread? I tried & failed.

🤔 If you are banned from a particular instance, do posts from that instance stop showing up on your feeds?

Just came over here from Reddit, glad to find a place that cares about free speech and not just the woke leftist agenda, happy to be here.

Can we please defederate from hexbear?

https://hexbear.net/comment/3967852

What is enough?

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Running well so far. Best of luck!

Thanks for putting this together! Happy to join this lil community :)

I had a question about the fediverse in general. Lets say I sign up on one instance, and one day that instance shuts down. Is my account lost? Or can you transfer your account between instances?

Signing in hangs for me. Registered (since lemmy.ml server performance is degrading with all the new users) but sign in just fails silently. Think it's capcha-related.

Thanks for setting up this instance :) Is there any way we can help support it?

Thanks for this, I’ve been so confused trying to figure out which instance to join: never had this amount of indecision with Mastodon.

I can’t seem to upload an avatar or background, I keep being told every image is too large. I’ve shrunk the images as small as possible but they still won’t upload. Not sure what else to do.

Why do we have to choose the language in order to comment here?

Is there a way to lock in your preferences on launch in a browser? For example, I would like my view setting to be 'Subscribed' and 'Top Six Hours' when opening. Any advice/tips appreciated.

Happy to be here, thanks for hosting it! This is much more performant than lemmy.world.

Thanks

Already the best instance since I can actually log into it!

Hey, can I ask if there are any plans to defederate from Hexbear and Lemmygrad? The users on those instances are extremely toxic, especially the former.

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 :)

First post as a Apollo refugee looking to find a new home, thanks for the image explaining lemmy!

Sevem₅

I trust this instance and have created my account here. Hope to have a nice experience here.

Does anyone have a good tutorial on how to use lemmy? For example, how to sub to popular communities? How to search for them?

sup i came from lemmy world bc they live in a perpetual state of outrage, had to block some of their communities here already they are still arguing about masks.

Came here from the Digg 2.0 implosion. Once Sync went down, I jumped ship. I like talking about subjects without having adds jammed into my face 24/7

Hi hi! came here from reddit :>

Refugee from reddit + apollo. This right now is a saving grace, keep fighting the good fight! Thank you for hosting this 👏🏼

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.

it looks like all of you know where i m coming from, so whats new ? it looks like good, easy,

I would like to donate a few bucks to cover my future cost of using this (instance? Sorry, yet another new refugee learning the site.)

Are there any verified cryptocurrency wallets where I can send a donation? (Don't post your random personal wallet address, I'm not that dumb :p haha)

Prefer to use litecoin but I have bitcoin too.

If not, I can do the CC thing, but this is a perfect example of where crypto is 5x easier and faster on my end.

Thanks for doing this. Just starting/transferring today. Looks promising, excited about decentralized federation.

OtherNote: in your intro you have a link to an image with the text

This image explains it well

The image is completely illegible ... maybe get something a little higher res?

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Any chance to host AdultChildren on lemm.ee?

good

Looks like the rush is over, the total users number has flattened out according the-federation.info/platform/73. Probably a good thing since it was getting a bit hectic with the sudden demand. Anyway this instance is performing very nicely on desktop browser for me, very little lag or delay anywhere. It's a pleasant experience. Thanks to the admin for an excellent server, also nice you're on the latest updates.

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!

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.

Hello World! Another reddit refugee here, too bad the whole API reddit thing started just as i started posting on reddit!

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Hi! I just started lemmy after hearing about it recently. I signed up on the Memmy app since I’m an iOS user.

Do you have any tips about the app/website for a first time user?

Thank you for hosting this instance, kind person!

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