• FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      14·
      23 days ago

      That’s pretty smart of the admins, actually. Thankful they thought of that.

      • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
        73·
        24 days ago

        Not really, the admins and just about every active community on there announced a month ago that they were shutting down.

        • Beacon@fedia.io
          11·
          24 days ago

          I think op was saying it’s interesting that it redirects rather than just an error

          • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
            48·
            24 days ago

            That’s not really interesting. DNS changes don’t propagate instantly. It’s likely OPs DNS server was still pointing to the old server even though the domain redirect had already been set by the owners.

  • pruwyben@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    22·
    24 days ago

    I wasn’t affected by this directly, but from what I saw it was all handled extremely well - lots of notice so users could choose new instances and mods could coordinate moving communities elsewhere. Makes me optimistic for the fediverse.

  • Venia Silente@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    8·
    23 days ago

    As a former lemmeezen, RIP, F, it was a good trip, quite decent service, but now it’s time to spread out.

    db0 is being nice so far, and I even got an account on my country’s lemmy.

      • kai@quokk.auEnglish
        2·
        22 days ago

        db0 way of managing the community is great but PieFed is a lot better by what I’m noticing and they dont have a PieFed instance. quokk.au is close to that if you want to jump ship to PieFed meanwhile

      • Venia Silente@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        22 days ago

        Has both a piracy and a privacy community, which is nice and probably leads to fun mishaps / mistypings. It’s pretty lean to federate to and fro as well, same with the UI.

        Just about the only negative I can consider is their position pro AI, but I can live with that, the world is pretty close to the end anyway.

    • kai@quokk.auEnglish
      2·
      22 days ago

      quokk.au is nice too if you want to use PieFed instead since db0 has no PieFed instance yet

  • 𝚝𝚛𝚔@aussie.zoneEnglish
    81·
    24 days ago

    I’m not even a member of lemm.ee and was aware of it closing today*

    * - timezone dependent but +/-24hours.

  • million@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    24 days ago

    What happened? Did the instance maintainer just get sick of running it?

  • oppy1984@lemdro.idEnglish
    6·
    22 days ago

    Refuge here, moved to joined a new server, couldn’t get my subscriptions moved over so I just resubscribed to each one manually, annoying but not the end of the world.

    I am looking into the idea of hosting my own instance on something like a $5 linod just to make sure this never happens again. But I don’t even know if it’s worth it, or possible with that. You can tell I’ve only had the idea not the motivation.

  • iso@lemy.lolEnglish
    61·
    24 days ago

    Sadge. It was a pretty solid instance.

  • aceshigh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    23 days ago

    … as someone whos considering switching out of world my eyes are open.

    • kai@quokk.auEnglish
      1·
      22 days ago

      i used to be on .world but quickly went to .ee then i wanted to switch like you and was looking at db0 but im more interested in PieFed and they have no PieFed instance yet. quokk.au is close to a db0 equivalent (not really but its an anarchist instance too) meanwhile

      • /home/pineapplelover@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        23 days ago

        It’s ok I just don’t like how they handle images. When I click on an image it redirects to open in a browser (on mobile) or new tab (on desktop). Dbzer0 doesn’t do this. I suspect they handle images more like lemm.ee did.

      • dil@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        23 days ago

        its good but I feel like I ran into less not likable ppl on lemm.ee, maybe they were already blocked instancewide or something

        Or maybe ppl here are more argumentative these days lol

        • aceshigh@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          23 days ago

          Oh I hear you…. I didn’t think about that. World is heavily moderated and switching to another instance opens me up to more aggressive personalities.

        • kai@quokk.auEnglish
          1·
          22 days ago

          if you want an anarchist instance on PieFed theres quokk.au while db0 hasnt joined PieFed yet

    • TerkErJerbs@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      22 days ago

      True story I actually meant to switch to .zip and I had both it and dbzer0 open in tabs for a few days (deciding between them) and on d-day for .ee I opened one and signed in and did the verification… and then realized where I was. And actually I’m happy with my accidental choice. It’s rad here.

    • kai@quokk.auEnglish
      2·
      22 days ago

      it still show up on search engine results lol i wonder hows that gonna work out now when people click to see a post and see its been shutdown