Share a story, ask a question, or start a conversation about (almost) anything you desire. Maybe you'll make some friends in the process.
RULES
Casual conversation communities:
Related discussion-focused communities
https://piefed.social/ welcomes all lemm.ee refugees. There is also https://feddit.online/ and others .
If whole communities want to move, all the posts in the community since the start of 2024 will be preserved. See https://piefed.social/post/667044 for details.
On Android you can use the Interstellar app with it.
damn shutting down on the exact day my account finally hits two years, guess it's time to finally look for another instance to use
lemmy.blahaj.zone is good, I just moved there. I've participated in their communities and they've been nothing but nice to me.
I think it would also be cool for a casual conversation community because it doesn’t federate downvotes. But I’m biased since LBZ is my home instance.
Damn that sucks. While I’m glad such an instance existed, I have to wonder if their ideological opposition to defederation was a factor here. I’ve usually argued against defederation in all but the most extreme cases but I could see how not doing so would increase the burden on admins considerably.
Lemmy.today also has policy against defederation, and it's still happily chugging along.
Sure, I didn’t mean it was impossible or anything, just could see how it might lead to more abuse since you’ll inevitably end up mediating between instances that hate each other and sometimes just are downright hateful to everyone.
I'll plug my home instance of discuss.online. The admin is great, and we've got several discussion communities already, one of which I've been posting to recently:
And another one for casual US-based discussion:
Yeah it would be a fitting name.
casual conversation @ discuss . online
My suggestion: lemmy.cafe has a really cool, fitting name, its an opportunity to grow lesser known instances
I have a lemmy.cafe, it was my daily driver for a few weeks.
The admin is nice, and the instance theme is cool.
The main issue is that Illecors (the admin) is alone, and sometimes it would take him a few weeks to troubleshoot an issue. There was a quite serious one that would prevent images from loading, and that lasted for quite a while.
So I wouldn't recommend it over Piefed.social.
Are you thinking of taking your communities to piefed? If so, is the community transfer feature a large reason why?
Yes. The community transfer helps, but I just couldn't find any generic Lemmy instance that wasn't LW
I'm quite enjoying PieFed, would that work?
Piefed even allows for transferring of communities (posts and all).
Stupid question time: Is piefed just part of activitypub or is it a lemmy instance?
PieFed is built with Python, one of the most widely used programming languages. Care has been taken to construct it in the simplest way possible, enabling contributions from programmers of all skill levels and keeping server costs down. This will greatly speed PieFed’s development process and widen its adoption.
Whoa, that's cool. I hope lemm.ee goes there. I'm happy currently with sh.itjust.works, but it's nice to know there's another place to go.
lemm.ee as an instance is over. But the users could ~~move over there~~ register on a piefed instance and communities can seemingly be properly transferred
this could be piefed's moment.
Would be awesome if there was a way to do this with user accounts as well. Especially with news like this, that's a missing piece of this federation business. Because even once you've settled on lan instance, there's no guarantee it's going to stay open long term. And it kinda sucks on the user's end to lose all your comment and post history like that. And saved posts.
Not that I blame that on any admins, I can understand their decision. Just riffing about the user experience here in the Fediverse. If you can re-index communities and posts therein, that gives me hope that you could potentially do that with a user account.
It's really only the saved posts I would miss. It would be a shame to have never looked at them once.
Well, the posts and comments do live on on the views of those communities on other instances, as long as someone subscribed to the communities.
Kagi has a "Fediverse Forums" search lens that can search all the instances, so you could maybe search for your username and a snippit of text from that comment if you use that. My guess is that as long as the Threadiverse grows, other people will probably work on searchability too.
Lemmy.ca? 😁
db0?
I'm pretty sure that's where I'm headed
It's kind of niche. You need to buy in on the ideals.
Well that sucks. I liked lemme.ee, and they were one of more sane instances.
Well, presumably the userbase isn't going to collectively commit hari-kari, so they should still be around on some other instance.
This is how I find out....
I was thinking piefed.social.
Piefed has reached feature parity with Lemmy from a community perspective (for the mobile apps, it's in progress, but you can still use your Lemmy account to follow a Piefed community, so it's all good).
Good call
I'm not sure, but let me know pls
There are a couple Lemmy meta posts with discussions on available options with similar modding styles to lemm.ee. Some of the more recommended I've seen is piefed, lemmy.zip, and dbzer0.