I really started to just use Lemmy as a option b, rather than the main social media I use.
After Lemmy thankfully reached more than 50k active users, the closure of Lemm.ee is expected to lower this number by a lot.
Furthermore, I started to think about what would happen if my current instance got shutdown, as all my communities will be finished and all my activity will be useless.
The whole situation feels hopeless in social media as there is no valuable community-focused social media service to actually replace Reddit for once and for all.
The death of social media is kind of fueling the death of human to human communication.
Currently people are shopping, working, learning and enjoying with almost zero human interaction.
I am expecting a very bad event here. I predict that within the next 10-15 years, there will be a large amount of people who will finish high school without meeting a single human outside their family, that will lead to a generation which will be unable to express their feelings or talk and make relationships.
Over the long term, this is going to make the world worse.
Anyway, I just wanted to write my thoughts here.
Personally I think something like the shutdown of lemm.ee highlights the strength of the federated system. No one instance is the center if the universe, no one instance gets to control everything. It goes away and life goes on. You can migrate your profile and subs somewhere else.
I was feeling sad about Lemm.ee, but right now I feel that perhaps we’re too attached to any one instance lol. It helps to have more than one account and on different instances, to not put all your eggs in one basket, so to speak. It sucks to lose comment and post history though.
Exactly. Lemmy lives on regardless and it’s a glorious thing.
My heart goes out to the lemm.ee admins and I hope they’re doing okay and getting help where they need it <3
What are you talking about?
All lemm.ee users will have to create new accounts, like they never had any account before.
All lemm.ee communities are shutting down.
You can export your settings and subscriptions to a new account. You don’t have a reddit karma score to care about keeping. The communities will migrate. I guess you lose your comment history on your profile but honestly do you really need to have a permanent record of every reply you made to some meme 3 years ago?