My sense is that the article (and people in general) are dismissing the loss a little too easily. Here are my thoughts:

• IIRC it was the #3 instance by size in the entire FV. That’s not nothing, and a lot of people were no doubt impacted.
• It was probably the most robust and resilient instance across the entire FV.
• The site-runner was a real pro at technical matters, and notably helped other instances deal with tech issues early on.
• The reason why the place went down, i.e. burnout and harassment across it’s admin team, is something to be concerned about across the FV going forward. It’s also something of an argument that for-profit social media networks (such as Reddit) have some key advantages over volunteer-based, FV-style networks.

I’m not going to pretend the data is safe—it will disappear eventually.

That’s what’s valuable, yeah. Lots of great posts that I don’t want to be lost.

But, it’s not like we lost everything that was produced in that community overnight, even with the server going offline.

Fair.

I did create a list of all posts submitted to !spotifyplaylists@lemm.ee at !spotifyplaylists@lemmy.world so that all those valuable posts are not lost.

Direct link to the article: https://sebastian.lauwe.rs/blog/lemmee-shutting-down/

What it meant to me was that I had to unpin the link to my lemm.ee account from my Firefox home page.

It could’ve been the case that I would’ve had one less instance to choose from, but in the aftermath of the announcement, I found two new instances I wanted to try, so I’m actually one ahead in the long run.

And that’s it.

Probably a good article to share to people skeptical about the resiliency of the Threadiverse

From what I’ve seen, it means a bunch of bitching.

But here’s a bonus feature: many platforms allow you to easily migrate your account to a new instance.

But Lemmy isn’t one of those platforms. Right?

Generally I agree with the article that the shutdown of lemm.ee isn’t a big deal. It sucks for sure, but the Fediverse survives.

Personally I don’t care about account migration. Export/import works fine, but I get that it’s a little clunky for some.

Community migration is something that I think is more important and as I understand PieFed handles this. Hopefully Lemmy will someday and even better between Lemmy & PieFed.