Welcome!
Due the recent high amount of users coming over from Reddit, many of the existing large Lemmy instances have been struggling to keep up. This instance was created to help spread out the load on the Lemmy network. Lemmy newbies are welcome here.
The goal for lemm.ee is to provide a home Lemmy instance for anybody that needs one. That means that you are more than welcome here even if you mostly intend to just interact with other instances rather than this one!
Note: if you want to start up a new community here, but the name is already taken by an inactive community, then don’t worry! Inactive communities can be transferred to new moderators. Please follow the steps outlined in our FAQ under the “How can I take over an inactive community” section.
What is Lemmy?
Lemmy is a federated link aggregator. This image explains it pretty well! In general, the fact that it’s “federated” just means that it works much like e-mail - in the same way as a Gmail user can send e-mails to iCloud Mail users or Outlook users, a lemm.ee user is able to participate in communities on many different Lemmy instances. Regardless of which Lemmy instance your account lives on, you are a part of the federated network and can interact with other users from other instances, so this instance is as good of a place as any other to get started with Lemmy.
If you have any further questions about Lemmy, please check out our guide/FAQ!
About lemm.ee (this instance)
lemm.ee is intended to be a serious long-term instance, not just some random experiment.
You can always find the most up to date rules and general info about lemm.ee in the sidebar on our front page. If you want to know more about how this instance is run, you can check our administration and federation policy.
For some technical background, this instance is operated following industry best practices:
- Our infrastructure is robust and has been built up with redundancy and recoverability in mind
- The servers are running in the cloud (this is not some bedroom server situation!)
- All of the infrastructure is described declaratively as code, which allows relatively quick and safe changes to any part of our infrastructure whenever necessary
- Our entire database is backed up constantly, so in the worst case, we can always restore our data
A significant chunk of funding for this infrastructure comes directly from our amazing community. This support is essential to help secure our future. These supporters deserve the gratitude of all lemm.ee users!
You can read more details about how our instance is funded on this GitHub sponsorships page. There is also a Ko-Fi donations page as a back-up.
If it sounds like lemm.ee might be the right instance for you, then you are welcome to join us!
Hi guys, Reddit refugee here! What’s the best mobile app to use for Lemmy?
I keep downloading every suggestion… right now, I have:
Jerboa (eh) Lemmynade (looks great) Thunder (just downloaded)
I installed Jerboa but I never managed to login in it. It said it didn’t like this server’s version. Will give Lemmynade a try!
Yeah I’m having the same issue.
I downloaded version .33 on F-Droid and it let me log in, still gave an error though. I’m really liking Connect for Lemmy and Thunder at the moment.
deleted by creator
Yeah the most popular on Android just crashes for me. Also, hello from reddit.
Fleeing Reddit and happy to have found this. Thank you
It sounds like you actually care about all of this. Thanks for making a refugee camp for us. Keep being professional about it and I’m sure you will nurture a great community.
Thank you, I need this.
Hi! Coming from Reddit, I really want an iOS app like Apollo to browse Lemmy.
I’m in exactly the same boat! 99% of my Reddit experience was through Apollo and it was phenomenal. Really hoping that something like that can be replicated.
Just like Ivory dev, I wonder if the Apollo dev is looking at that option?
Best of luck from the division by zero. Unlike you, we following the industry standard practice of “Yolo” 😅
Just arrived from Reddit and excited to start exploring the fediverse. Thanks for all your work making this instance a reality!
Is there anyways to stop the “all” tab from updating? It sucks to lose a thread when it updates with a bunch of posts.
That issue will be gone very soon, hang tight just a bit longer. The next version that I will be upgrading lemm.ee to (most likely before the end of this week) will solve it!
Thank you for your work. I know that it’s a volunteer position but I appreciate making this a reddit experience.
deleted by creator
Hi, I’m using Memmy on iOS it’s currently a TestFlight beta, but works really great. For me it’s a decent and familiar Apollo alternative at the moment.
I have Mlem (also TestFlight) but found it lacking in most features. I mostly use the wefwef.app as a PWA and it’s pretty good despite some bugs or ux decisions I disagree with such as not being able to search for posts/comments/communities/users at the same time (and url searches not working)
There’s no one official app, but I think there are several apps in development at the moment (especially now with the big influx of new users). Actually, even the Lemmy web UI is a PWA and can also be saved to your phone as a pesudo-app. IMO it even works really well.
As for updating the layout, there is certainly lots of work to be done, but I’ve seen some quite interesting code contributions in that regard already. I’m positive Lemmy UX will be steadily improving in the coming months.
@Sunaurus, will you be signing this document to fend off Meta?
Hey, I’ll have to take a look at that, thanks for sharing!
No problem Sir :)
Cheers from another Reddit refugee! Looking forward to seeing all of you in the comments.
Thanks for building a Reddit alternative! For some reason whenever I visit a community it looks like I’m not logged in even though I seem to be on the homepage. Is this a bug or am I an idiot? Also, when I find a community via search there’s no subscribe option- may be related to 1st question, but also could be bc I’m on an iPhone mini. Columns are breaking mid-word on my screen, so maybe the design just isn’t optimizing for this size.
Is that a mouse or lemur? I might do a mini sculpture.
Lemming?
Wait you mean to tell me lemming is an actual animal, wtf I thought it was those little stick figures that follow each other to death, I googled it for the first time… Oh man this changes everything for me. hahaha
Hi, I like it here so far. But I have a small issue:
When I filter my feed by “active” or “top” (or anything really), if I wait a bit I can see that new threads still appear at the top, above the sorted ones. Is this a bug, or a feature that I can configure?
Hey! It’s a “buggy feature” in 0.17.4, but it will be removed completely once when upgrade to 0.18!
When might that be?
Stilllllllllll can’t subscribe/find dundermifflin@lemmy.ml. I tried searching the full address, partial, just the name… hopefully issues like this will be resolved.
Hey, I can see it here: !dundermifflin@lemmy.ml.
I’m trying to sub to !zen@lemmy.ml and having the same problem… Am I just not waiting long enough? And if I’m not, is there a “usual” ETA for it to show up? Thanks!
EDIT: Hey I got it to work. Read somewhere to search for the whole URL and it worked like a charm!
I think you already tried this fix but just in case https://lemmy.world/comment/162179 . You have to search it once then wait and try again
Yeah… no luck. Thanks!
Thanks for this!