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.
Hello! Came over here from .world because of issues on posting commenting over there (hope they get resolved though). Glad to be a part of this instance. I’ll probably fight with my alter-ego on the .world instance as well.
Random: For the whole fediverse, I hope there would be a community/sub like thanosdidnothingwrong. I was spared on the last iteration on the big old R.
I wonder how I’d fare this time.
Me too. I noticed some of my posts only showed up in the .world instance of the community and nowhere else so I wasn’t getting any replies. I really like the speed of this server so it’ll probably become my main one now.
BTW, looking at your username, do you recommend any good book- or literature-related communities here on Lemmy?
Lol my username is totally random, and I have no authority whatsoever on anything literature.
That being said, it depends on what you feel like reading. (I have two instances with the same u/n, so pardon if the u/n changes a bit).
Lemmy.Ml’s books is a good start for a community.
For a book? Daily Stoic by Ryan Holliday for NonFiction or Victor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning
Fiction? Why not try The Broker by John Grisham. THat’s what I have on the top of my head.
What books have you been reading? I’d want to finish my growing kindle library too lol.
Thanks. I used to read Grisham a lot but haven’t in a long time. I’ll check out book as well as your other suggestions.
Regarding that book community, when I try to hit “join”, the button turns into “subscribe pending”. Strange, but maybe it’s just a temporary glitch between servers.
As for my own book suggestions, I’ve mainly been reading in Japanese for the past few years, in order to improve my Japanese reading ability, so many things I’ve read hasn’t been translated into English yet.
Some books that have been translated into English and that I would recommend is Bullet Train by Kotaro Isaka. It’s a satirical action thriller and it was also recently made into a Hollywood movie. I haven’t seen the movie (which I heard was good) but I very much loved the book.
Keigo Higashino’s mystery thrillers are great too. Lots of twists. I recommend The Devotion of Suspect X.
For classic Japanese literature, Osamu Dazai’s Setting Sun is one of my favorites.