cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/65824884
Hey everyone
We’re really sorry to say this, but lemm.ee will be shutting down on June 30, 2025.
What you need to know
As of now:
- New user registrations are disabled
- Creating new communities is disabled
What you should do:
- You can export your settings at https://lemm.ee/settings to take them with you to another instance.
- If you’re moving to another instance, consider adding a note to your lemm.ee profile with your new username. Your old profile will still be visible from other instances even after we go offline.
- Alternatively, if you want to delete your lemm.ee profile, now is the best time to do it, so the deletion can federate out before we go offline.
- If you’re one of the folks supporting us with a recurring donation, please remember to cancel it (Ko-Fi donations should have been cancelled automatically already). Our leftover funds are already enough to cover our bills for next month, so we can keep things running without any more support.
Because of how Lemmy is built, everything posted on lemm.ee will still be accessible from other instances, even after we go offline.
Why this is happening
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.
The sad reality is that while there are a lot of great people on Lemmy, there are also some who use the platform to attack others, stir up conflict, or actively try to undermine the project. Admins are volunteers who deal with the latter group on a constant basis, this takes a mental toll. Please understand why our admins chose to step down, and be kind to the admins on whatever instance you decide to join.
We know this sucks. We’re genuinely sorry it’s ending like this. Thank you to everyone who spent time here and helped make it better.
– lemm.ee team
https://lemmy.zip/ is cool is you prefer the Lemmy UI
Yeah, I might make an account there. I really like lemm.ee because of the federation policy and .zip seems similar.
I might start a fork of lemmy-ui for piefed.
That would be great. I really prefer Lemmy-ui, maybe it’s Stockholm’s syndrome
Shouldn’t be too hard, but the APIs might become distinct in the future. Personally i’d love to see this, so that’s two people who want it :D
The main problem is I am shit at rust.
I am hoping that piefed implements lemmy’s api.
real. Though lemmy-ui is written in typescript afaik, so rust shouldn’t be involved at all
I’ve bugged rimu multiple times to implement a dummy /v3 route to redirect it all to /alpha (which is what piefed uses) which theoretically should make lots of lemmy apps work without modification? Yet he never tried it sadly, so we’ll never know i guess.
Yeah, its in typescript.
I thought it said rust last time I checked it, this is probably a consequence of juggling too many tabs.
edit: changed image link. RIP lemm.ee
You’re probably thinking of https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui-leptos, the lemmy-ui RIIR.
I probably was.
Actually, screwing around with it a bit, I think I got it kinda working by changing one string:
“v3” to “alpha”.
Edit: changed image link. RIP lemm.ee
Wtf :O have you tested it with an instance, yet? Try out https://piefed.social/. It has the API now
I’m trying to, but the docs require you to use systemd, and I’m running it in wsl. I can set the instance, but I can’t get it to use https for some reason, and piefed returns a 302 on any http request.
I’ll try to do so, later. Will reply here if i get something / fail to.