Fediverse memes

Community migration is possible on Piefed https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/45876492?scrollToComments=true

Posts that propagated to other communities will stay on servers.

Images will break though.

https://lemmy.zip/post/40323214

Yeah I was gonna try out piefed and mbin but if those don’t work out for me any lemmy instance suggestions? J was thinking lemmy.zip or any instance who only defederates with spam/illegal stuff

Definitely

To me, it's mostly how an instance is ran. How it makes its decisions: defederating or not, and with whom, how they handle complaints, how they handle bans, etc. makes a difference in both the communities it hosts and its members.

There's also the matter of user culture. Some instances, like Beehaw, Lemmygrad, and Hexbear are known for a certain user culture. Some users might steer clear away from certain instances because of that perceived user culture.

And then there's the issue of defederation stance. It might not be readily apparent, or affect your user experience in a big way, but for some users, it's a factor. This is also where lemm.ee made its mark. It basically used defederation as a last resort, and some users were drawn to that.

If your display settings don't show the full username, there's no way to tell really. Voyager and Alexandrite show then by default. I think people just like to root for teams inherently and the interinstance drama is kind of fun. If you're on Lemmy a lot you start to recognize people and their main instance, there really aren't that many of us.

Community cultures, mostly, as trimmed and pruned by admins. Most instances I don't notice massive differences in, with a few exceptions.

Different admins; some instances federate with some, some block others.

Here’s an entitled ass to add to your collection lol https://sh.itjust.works/comment/19001249

lemm.ee is shutting down, due to admin burnout.

most of the admins left due to stress, or lack of hiring. thats why its shutting down.

!meta@lemm.ee

Community migration is possible on Piefed https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/45876492?scrollToComments=true

That's a disturbingly good point.

To be fair, lemm.ee didn't really act as host to any major communities to begin with. So communities aren't really the loss here, and it could be that having at least a few big active communities on an instance is a key part of maintaining its long term viability.

Also, all the text posts and comments from lemm.ee will still remain on other instances. I'm sure the instance could also back up content, if the specific admin so desired to re-host.