Looks like the instance went down a bit earlier than expected
this post was submitted on 26 Feb 2026
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Well damn. Just seeing this. I basically walked away for the same reasons a year ago, though mine's still online because I got talked into keeping Tesseract alive and needed an instance I could test against. You were one of the original Rexodous instances and probably helped me many times in the group chat getting mine up and going in the early days.
My instance is pretty well curated to get rid of the propaganda, violent rhetoric, and other undesirable aspects, so if you wanna pop in, you're free to sign up on mine (hell, I'd even let you be an admin). And since it's my own test instance (more or less anyway), if you wanna keep playing around with some of your fedi tools, you're welcome to. If not, and you never wanna see the place ever again, believe me, I totally get that.
Regardless, thanks for trying to build something better with us and sorry it didn't work out. I share the same frustrations you're expressing here.
Thank you for your kind words, the feelings are mutual - you were definitely one of the bright sides on Lemmy.
I currently need a break from Lemmy but if I ever come back, your instance is definitely the one I'll be joining.
Thank you as well, you were always helpful on Matrix and I really appreciate it.
My instance is pretty well curated to get rid of the propaganda, violent rhetoric, and other undesirable aspects,
Yep, and things around here keep getting even more crazy. Lemmy has devolved into practically every post to be about how xxxx president is destroying the world and xxxx should be president instead, or xxxx needs to be shot and hung publically. Regardless of post topic. Any disagreement, over anything, devolves into "nazi!!" and "fascist!" name calling. Regardless of post topic. lol
Lemmy and Piefed have become the haven of nerdy antisocial trolls who got banned from reddit for being too extremist and antisocial. lol
So I fired up my own instance (not using this username) and right away just banned, blocked, filtered basically everything/everyone that annoys me about the fediverse. And locked it down to be single user.
And finally I can enjoy Lemmy again. Lemmy will stop growing and die off eventually. Too many people come here because of the great idea that it is, only to find out that it's full of groupthink trolls. Then leave. I have seen so many good posters just give up and leave.
Sad but true. Matches everything I've seen and complained about over the last ~3 years. It looked so promising at first and then....turned into everything you just said. Lol, we should compare block/ban lists sometime - there's probably a LOT of overlap. Are you at doomprepper.com by chance?
Honestly, the Fediverse needs a schism if it's going to survive beyond being a haven for people that are too toxic to be platformed anywhere else. Not so much a split based on ideology but on pushing the extremist, antisocial, violent, troll people to the fringe instances so the sane people might actually stick around.
I thought we might be seeing the first steps of that with LW taking a stand against .nexus, but they've since re-fedded and I'm not at all confident they're going to cut off dbzer0 and nexus which are two of the worst widely federated instances for platforming violent crazies (grad and hexbear are worse but they're pretty widely blocked, and .ml is sadly too big for most instances to cut off).
It's totally possible to block and ban and defederate enough to make this a nice place, but it's a LOT of never-ending, thankless work as I'm sure you've noticed. The problem is few admins want to actually do that (and some are part of the problem), so the default experience for someone who isn't a crazy, violent antisocial extremist nutjob (i.e. most people) makes them want to nope out immediately.
Your contribution to the Fediverse and Lemmy was bigger than many users. You will be missed.
Who knows what the future has in store for us. Perhaps you'll be compelled to return to Lemmy in the future, perhaps not. Either way, I wish you well.
Thank you!
Oh bummer, that's me....
Thanks for letting me know, I'll end my recurring donation when it goes down.
I understand the lack of political nuance, and everything having to be hard right or hard left, but that's the way we have been programmed, and how our algorithms are programmed, something we have to accept because I honestly don't see the path to changing it.
Thank you for the support so far!
Well, the only path I see is to not participate which is what I did when Facebook let me down years ago, then the same with Reddit and now Lemmy.
I think you might be confused (maybe).
Lemmings.world != lemmy.world
Yup, I'm oblivious....
I have my reasons for being oblivious, but I'm not proud.
The Threadiverse may have too many tankies and not enough active communities, but with Reddit becoming greedier and greedier by the day, it's the only viable alternative.
Blocking .ml, Hexbear, and Lemmygrad solves a lot of the tankie problem, but it could certainly still use more people to support non-news or politics communities.
I have offered to take over Lemmings.world, to preserve all the posts and users.
PLEASE!
Thank you!
This is awesome news! Hopefully they let you do it.
Ah. I just signed up! But that's just how the fediverse goes.
Thanks for offering the instance! I know hosting must be a crazy huge project!
Sorry to hear you're shutting down. Thanks for helping Lemmy grow to what it is today.
Thanks for the kind words!
I appreciate it. This has been a nice instance. Good luck in your future endeavors.
I'm still fairly new here and haven't had much time to interact via this instance. But must say that the onboarding, which I initially had some trouble with, was quickly made smooth and friendly after a short chat exchange. I will remember you for that and hope you'll do great wherever you go next.
Mastodon a bit better, at least less tankies.
tankies
I tried out Mastodon for a bit, I had a different experience.
Unfortunately there really just isn't much of a space online for a political moderate. If you aren't true hard-line right or true hard-line left then there is just no opportunity for dialog online.
Ain't that the truth! As someone who's center-left for the most part, I feel that every day.
But my real issue is pretty much that Lemmy has almost no other content besides political one - I'm fine not fitting in with the online masses politically but I kinda can't find anything else to do on here.
I wouldn't even consider myself "center left". I'm like 95% straight down the line liberal.
But because I believe crazy things like "maybe some abortions are actually ethically dubious", and "numerous good rigorous studies have demonstrated that religion is generally socially good and healthy actually", and "a well regulated capitalism is a good economic system actually."
So, you know, I'm a Nazi sympathiser.
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But my real issue is pretty much that Lemmy has almost no other content besides political one
Yep, this is pretty annoying. I posted some general news to our news sub, and some people got mad because they didn't think it was "news." Meaning, to them, if it's not political, it's not news. I personally barely read political news. lol
That's a completely different type of platform. I've tried Twitter/Mastodon so many times over the years and the format just doesn't work for me. Feels like yelling into the void and in order for anyone to interact with you, you first need to build an audience somehow.
I'm sorry to hear it's going. I've really enjoyed using it, and you have administered it brilliantly. Thanks you for your time and effort, and good luck with whatever you do next.
Awh no, that's me, I'm lemming 😭 well, at least that's good opportunity to try piefed now.
Bummer... thank you for keeping it going while you did.
Anyone have suggestions on where to go... all opinions appreciated; even the snarky ones....
The closest I found to the same vibe are, Lemmy.today, lemmy.zip, lemmy.wtf, and lemmy.dbzer0.com. Those four are pretty much the "live and let live" instances that don't try to control what you say or read.
Thanks!
Is anyone aware whether there’s any way to migrate a community to another instance keeping the subscribers?
Anyways, thanks for hosting the instance during all these years! And I appreciate giving a notice in advance!
Piefed does have a migration tool from what I remember of lemm.ee's shutdown
rikudou…
Legend.
Thank you!! See you on another instance in a happy future!
It's been a really great instance! Thank you for your service to the fediverse!
Do you have another recommendation for an instance that won't ban me for saying something like "I think marijuana use should be strictly regulated."
Can't say I have one, as that was pretty much the niche (freedom of speech where you're allowed to say anything as long as it's not illegal or hurting other people) I tried to fill because it was empty. Haven't really checked newer instances, so don't know if there's one with similar mindset.
Well, I appreciate your effort.
You really were banned on other instances for saying marijuana use should be strictly regulated?
Not whole Lemmy instances, but I got banned from the r/millennials subreddit for that about a year ago. I really wasn't even being that antagonistic about it. I was just sharing scholarly peer reviewed articles with people that refused to believe that marijuana might have some negative side effects. Didn't even get a warning. Boom, perma ban.
Sigh. Yeah, that's not right to get banned for having a different opinion than a moderator.
Most instances will be fine with that, we've also had discussions on our instance and !canada@lemmy.ca in the past about similar studies.
This place isn't immune to powertripping mods and admins, but generally you CAN find places without that.
You might want to switch to a PieFed instance while you are at it. It's the same content, but with a LOT more features: polls, flairs, feeds (=multireddits), comments federate instead of just posts, you can get notifications for every post in a quiet comm if you so wish, etc.
Anarchist.nexus might be good for you; they let you be largely whatever you are. All goes, as long as you're not a fascist, tankie, or similar. It's not forbidden to be against weed there. Nor is it forbidden to be for weed either, for that matter.
You can also just click "register" on any PieFed instance to see a broader list. Or go to http://piefed.fediverse.observer/ to see what exists.
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There should be several? E.g. sopuli?
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