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
If it’s any consolation, I’m with you on blahaj. It’s like a sea of people who can’t wait for someone to point a finger at. Your post was harmless, questioning, and didn’t seem hate-filled at all. I usually avoid blahaj users, I never know when even a harmless phrase will be enough to cause one of them to have a nervous breakdown.
You don’t get the point of the instance. That sports thing is deliberately pushed by the alt right because it gets people riled up, it was literally a non issue until they started bringing it up (and lying about it, making it seem like a bigger issue than it really is). There are not a lot of trans women and we largely don’t compete at a professional level. We have to keep hearing this tired old debate over and over, and so on blåhaj, which is supposed to be a safe space, we simply ban all alt right rhetoric targeting us rather than engage in it.
Do you know how often someone shows up and randomly brings up some unrelated alt right talking point? In an unrelated post? Yeah this is not us being sensitive, this is other people not understanding what it means to be a minority being specifically targeted to create engagement. We can’t all expend all of our energy all of the time to rebuke every single argument. That effort would legitimately be inhuman
Lemmy is a federated site, and you have to accept that blahaj is a public instance, as do the rest of the users. If you guys can’t have a conversation without flipping your shit, or can’t handle your own business, then lock the door.
You ever been on an instance that doesn’t have their own rules?
Edit: And it’s hardly flipping our shit to ban people who dehumanize us or spread anti trans propaganda.
That’s a dead end, I say no and even if I did, it doesn’t change the attitude of blahaj users outside of blahaj, you act like you proved a point, you didn’t, we get madder at eachother, I’m sure you’ve been around this track once or twice.
❤️ feels good to hear from time to time. I’m just shocked at how much people are fine with that.
It’s pretty similar to hexbear and lemmygrad in a way. You learn to avoid and not trigger them because it always end in a bloodbath even though you never intended it to
I believe what infuriates me the most is that your comments just end up being deleted instead of just downvoted. It always goes in the same way, as if there’s only one voice.
But delete-instead-of-downvote is how you drive out the trolls. If you give shitty people a platform labeled “I think this person is wrong” then you’ve still given them a platform.
If you don’t understand the actions, it’s probably because you’re not trans. Try to be aware of that. Would a few comments seriously deteriorate your mental health? No, but transphobia might end up doing that on trans folks, that’s why it’s completely removed.
This is it. It’s really easy for cis people to talk about trans issues like they are nothing because they don’t experience them. I should know. I used to be like that before I knew I was a trans girl, and then I eventually came to realize why it hurt so much when my egg broke and I came to be in that position.