I've enjoyed it, and this has been one of my most visited websites during that time. But I'm still not sure I'll stick around after lemm.ee shuts down at the end of this month.

[–] Kevnyon@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, had to move back to this instance because of that. I think that just shows how hard it is and how much funding it actually requires.

[–] blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

My understanding is in the case of lemm.ee they were getting enough donations to cover the technical operating costs, but they did not have enough high-quality volunteers for admins (and presumably not enough money to pay admins. It would require a lot of money to pay fairly for that work).

[–] all4one@lemmy.zip 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Ate you going back to big R?

[–] blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

Well kind of yes and kind of no. I never closed my R account, and I still check there maybe once a week. So in that since "yes". But on the other hand, the quality of posts and discussion is pretty low. It feels like a lot of the content there is posted to meet some goal, such as selling a product or influencing opinions - rather than just sharing thoughts and ideas. I find that pretty off-putting. Despite the very high comment counts, genuine discussion there is almost non-existent. But the one bit of value I do sometimes get is it often has some piece of niche news that I'm mildly interested in.