this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2025
620 points (98.1% liked)

Technology

71223 readers
4219 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Archive.

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.

top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

This suuuucks. We need another big, general instance that doesn't defed everyone. But I get it, being an admin sounds like a lot of work or I would do it lol. Plus I don't have place for a server around here. Or do most admins just buy space from the cloud?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

im guessing competing with something like .world is pretty hard, since world has most of the content and admins, but they apparently blocked alot of communities, most of which sounds illegal or potentially illegal,but piracy is a wierd thing.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (5 children)

Damn, it was like the 2/3rd most active instance

https://lemmyverse.net/ to search for a new instance

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Oh man I had no idea how popular that instance was. That’s really sad :(((

load more comments (4 replies)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Sad day. Lemm.ee was by far my favorite instance and my home. Thanks admins for the hard work.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

The double edged sword of not defederating from other instances is that the worst instaces that most block will use your space to keep shoveling their bullshit to more people.

It creats a lot of extra work for the admins/mods

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 days ago

Thanks for your time. Take care of yourselves.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Lemm.ee has been an amazing instance.

Loved the transparency, mods, community, and lemm.ee is easy to type out and remember

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago

Farewell Lemm.ee, it was a good two years.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago

Thanks, admins, your efforts and patience have been greatly appreciated.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Now is a good time to check out PieFed.

It also has much better mod tools, so it will make life easier for mods

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

What are the issues with python if anyone knows? Is it a bigger issue with scaling up or will it get significantly slower as they add more features? People mention how its bad but they just assume people know why.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

We use Python on the back end of a public-facing website with massive levels of traffic. There are some maintainability issues due to the dynamic nature of the language, duck typing can be tricky for similar reasons, but as long as devs are sensible and test things rigorously, performance is fine, and I'm reasonably sure we're operating at a scale at least a couple orders of magnitude larger than all Lemmy instances combined. Also, it's a mature, concise language with excellent libraries, so most non-exotic requirements can be met without too much difficulty.

People mention how its bad but they just assume people know why.

They don't know why. I supect it's because nothing works right if you do it wrong.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You can assume a roughly 10-100x slowdown on pretty much everything. It also does not feature type safety, so while it is easier to code in it it is also easier to make mistakes. Other than that... Just a simple scripting language

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Id say 100x is extreme and python has optional types now but mostly you're right.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

In this situation, a user on lemm.ee would have to export their settings and create a new account elsewhere, right? Do their comments and post histories get exported too? I joined Lemmy only a month ago; this is the first time seeing an instance go down, so I'd appreciate it if someone here could clarify that.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

a user on lemm.ee would have to export their settings and create a new account elsewhere, right?

Yes

Do their comments and post histories get exported too?

No, but if I understand it correctly, they will live on in other servers that were federated at the time they were posted.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Oh I didn't realise that how it worked.

Doesn't that mean that the hosting requirements for every instance are just going to become unfeasibly large as time goes on, or do the files get cleared out after a couple of years?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Text is very small and easily compressible, it's more images that you need to worry about generally speaking.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Thank you kindly!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

Thank you so much for providing my home instance. Have enjoyed Lemm.ee the past two years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Can/How do you Import/Export your comments/replies?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

Thank you for your hard work! Sorry I was being an ass time to time.

load more comments
view more: next ›