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.
https://lemmyverse.net/communities
and @yippy@lemm.ee use this one instead of the browser inside your instance because that will only show how many subscribers the communities have from lemm.ee itself.
The link above will show you the real user count, and if you set you home instance to lemm.ee (house button on the top right) you’ll even get a direct lemm.ee link to each community so you can immediately subscribe.
If you search for “Virtual”, it seems the biggest community right now is https://lemm.ee/c/virtualreality@feddit.de with 306 users, which isn’t that much but definately more than the 11 users lemm.ee browser is showing you(which means 11 of those 306 users are subscribed from lemm.ee)
Thanks! This link worked. The search was not pulling up any other communities.
thanks for the info! I was able to find so many more communities but was unable to subscribe because of a 404: couldnt_find_community error. I’m hoping I’m just doing something wrong but I found a couple google results with similar issues. Hopefully it’s a simple fix.
Edit: Found a fix https://lemmy.world/comment/162179