lemm.ee has shut down at 00:14 UTC.
unfortunately I realized too late that I have had hundreds of saved links to posts and comments from there, so I did not have enough time to save them, but anyways it is interesting that maybe a third of the post links I could try were dead. I think linkrot is happening much faster here than on reddit, even if just counting deleted posts.
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A solution to this is Nostr. One identity across the entire network.
Twitter-like Platform/client dies overnight? No problem, all data still there.
Reddit-like platform/client dies overnight? No problem, all data still there.
PC dies overnight? No problem, all data still there.
Data is sync’d across multiple relays, you can run your own, and clients are interoperable.
It’s my go-to now, for everything. A person’s posts, their followers/audience, chats, etc never needs to be migrated.
Media is stored using the Blossom protocol which was created for Nostr.
V4V(Value 4 Value) is also a thing, so instead of just Likes/Reactions you can tip/Zap Sats (Bitcoin over Lightning) but that’s optional.
Damn, since I saw the warning thread I was hurrying my slow ass to back up my stuff, which I gladly did (some days ago), lemmy.zip is my new home now.
I feel sorry for the users that didn’t get the chance to backup their stuff… An auto backup feature for Lemmy backend might be worth checking out perhaps?
At the very least, social networks like this really need a two server type system: the authenticator who identifies that you are really who you say you are and handles personal settings, communication, and access to the fediverse, and the content provider that hosts the communities.
It’ll be greatly missed. It was nice to have an instance with a reasonable defederation policy where I could interact with anyone basically.
Nice for you, bad for the mods. Only way to do that without outsourcing mental strain to other people is to self host
Yeah I remember I few people saying modding .ee was hell because of infinite streams of users from the same instances and their refusal to defederate
RIP home server, you will be missed
🫡 you were good to us .ee, may you forever rest in peace.
I’m sure I was sufficiently notified, but I am not big on reading updates on ny instace, so this came as a surpise just now.
Thanks for the server! Onwards to the next!
The original shut down thread was posted over 3 weeks ago.
It was my first home. I thank them for bringing me in.
Goodbye ee
You were waiting for this one for a month, aren’t you? :)
Hello world, lemmee refugee here, & first post on piefed! I had exported my settings before the ship went down, figured we could import it in another instance to save my comments and communities, but I don’t see any option to import here. Does piefed speak with Lemmy yet it’s not part of Lemmy?
Piefed speaks to Lemmy instances, yes.
You can import data here: https://piefed.social/user/settings/import_export
Deleting your account deletes your content, unlike deleting your Reddit account. Hence the linkrot.
I learnt pretty early on that saving posts using the save button was not a good way to save the information 😮💨
Not quite. If your comments federated out to an instance that either a) doesn’t get the delete request or b) ignores the delete request, your comments will very much stay out there in the fedeverse with not much you can do. Yes posts on the original instance may be gone, but anything that get pushed out via ActivityPub is a crap shoot.
Yes with ActivityPub there’s always failed federation. But Lemmy will send the delete request out when you delete your account. Other software or instances might not honour it, but the intent is there.
As opposed to reddit who do not remove comments when an account is deleted, only mark it as a comment from a deleted account.
I’m not against Lemmy’s implementation, but it does require you to collect information you need at the time not assume it will always be there.
Ah, I get where you’re going with that and understand your view. My point was more for users who think that deleting an account will really get rid of it everywhere and I didn’t want them getting their hopes up.
That’s weird. I moved over from lemm.ee and transferred data. The saved posts transferred too.
No that’s expected, as part of your profile info. But if the original authors delete the comments, then they will also be deleted in your saved items.
Ah got it!
Yeah bookmarks are a lot better than using specific save systems
Bookmarks won’t help if the content gets removed. You’ve got to copy the important information elsewhere.
I tend to use either a note app (Joplin) or a self-hosted wiki for that.
Yeah fair, most of my bookmarks aren’t really things that are important to save, just funny things I want to share later or something.
I always take a screenshot because I am lazy but just copying the text, like you say, is better
Out of the loop, why did they shut down?
Not enough admins, and those there were burnt out.
Furthermore, I thought that they were supposed to be a temporary instance for the reddit influx as well.
The linkrot is real but not unexpected when anyone can spin up and shut down instances. Nothing is forever
It’s mostly not because of instance shutdown though. especially on lemmy, because lots of posts are readable elsewhere after shutdown.
I was literally filling out an application for another server when it went down. Sad day.
Unfortunately I waited too long and now I can’t see my subs that I wanted to migrate.
this you? https://lemmy.zip/u/Aku@lemm.ee
Yep thats me!
I think linkrot is happening much faster here than on reddit, even if just counting deleted posts.
Are you sure? Are lemm.ee posts showing as deleted for you? It looks like the copies of anything posted to lemm.ee still exist on the instances that it was federated with. Try this link !animation@lemm.ee, I am pretty sure it should still work on your instance.
It’s not all the lemm.ee posts, just a significant amount of them.
also in the meantime I realized my hundreds of lemm.ee links are not actually links to lemm.ee hosted posts, but just links to the lemm.ee view of them. I was just very often copying the wrong link that still worked, but wasn’t the definitive one
