Fedigrow

With Lemm.ee shutting down, the Adventure games community (!adventuregames@lemm.ee) is moving to new instance (!adventuregames@retrolemmy.com).

I made a first pass version of the icon:

I am mostly looking to align the styles of the different icon components (hat, maps, magnifying glass) to make them work together better. I tried to find images with some alignment in style, but it would be nice to have a 2nd pass by someone with better graphics editing skills. Feel to pick other icon components if needed.

I am trying to mimic the style of the Tycoon gaming and CRPG games community icons (final version of the CRPG icon was made by macniel who is on Lemmy.

Tycoon gaming:

CRPG gaming:

Source PNG images:

Lemmy mouse - https://images2.imgbox.com/6b/eb/c3v78IsH_o.png

Magnifying glass - https://images2.imgbox.com/80/c2/2yCNbUJV_o.png

Map - https://images2.imgbox.com/8d/54/qTQhqVOQ_o.png

Sherlock Holmes hat - https://images2.imgbox.com/58/a8/ERgTZEAH_o.png

Thanks in advance!

cross-posted from: https://crazypeople.online/post/2634649

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/65824884

Hey everyone

We’re really sorry to say this, but lemm.ee will be shutting down on June 30, 2025.

What you need to know

As of now:

• New user registrations are disabled
• Creating new communities is disabled

What you should do:

• You can export your settings at https://lemm.ee/settings to take them with you to another instance.
• If you're moving to another instance, consider adding a note to your lemm.ee profile with your new username. Your old profile will still be visible from other instances even after we go offline.
• Alternatively, if you want to delete your lemm.ee profile, now is the best time to do it, so the deletion can federate out before we go offline.
• If you're one of the folks supporting us with a recurring donation, please remember to cancel it (Ko-Fi donations should have been cancelled automatically already). Our leftover funds are already enough to cover our bills for next month, so we can keep things running without any more support.

Because of how Lemmy is built, everything posted on lemm.ee will still be accessible from other instances, even after we go offline.

Why this is happening

The key reason is that we just don’t have enough people on the admin team to keep the place running. Most of the admin team has stepped down, mostly due to burnout, and finding replacements hasn’t worked out.

The sad reality is that while there are a lot of great people on Lemmy, there are also some who use the platform to attack others, stir up conflict, or actively try to undermine the project. Admins are volunteers who deal with the latter group on a constant basis, this takes a mental toll. Please understand why our admins chose to step down, and be kind to the admins on whatever instance you decide to join.

We know this sucks. We're genuinely sorry it’s ending like this. Thank you to everyone who spent time here and helped make it better.

– lemm.ee team

Hello Lemmy users!

I'm moderator of two communities which I want to move from where they are for various reasons.
My first option is to take them over the instance I'm, but I don't know if this will be the best option.
The second option is to move to another instance, but I should move there too.

What do you guys think? or what do you recommend ? Gime your thoughts.

The recent discussion of instance admin burnout has got me thinking about how do we create a sustainable model going forward to prevent admins from being over burdened.

The biggest workload for admins is they become the defacto community moderators for every community with inactive mods, inattentive mods, etc.

I imagine this is part of the overloading stress that caused lemm.ee to throw in the towel.

Mandatory Moderation Model

• 1 - Every community that doesn't follow the following rules get's autolocked
• 2 - Every community on a instance needs a moderator
• 3 - Every moderator must be active
• 4 - The report backlog for a community must not get stale or too old (24h/48h)

Admin's would be moderator managers, and not get involved in user posts, just moderator issues

• A - Moderator not following instance TOS
• B - Moderator acting in bad faith
• C - Unlocking communities when moderators fix the initial issue

What are your thoughts? Would this help larger instances scale better?

I have two lemm.ee communities and I very much want to keep the post history in one community for discover ability and archival purposes.

What tools and methods are available to transfer posts from one instance to another?

Good day all. I now have a nonprofit called BT Free for Big Tech Free. It is a digital privacy rights, advocacy and consulting nonprofit. We're currently working on our 501(c)3.

Our first platform is Peertube, set up at TubeFree.org. We have registrations open, but no upload. If you'd like to upload, we're looking for quality content on our moderated instance. We can also attempt to help folks get their own set up if folks would prefer to do that. The goal is to start actively building out system to help people move from Big Tech.

This is still a major work in progress, but I'd love to hear folks thoughts on any creators that might be receptive to copying their content to Peertube or any platforms people would be interested in having to move your content to.

I'm investigating some kind of revenue sharing or something with creators. I also want to pass on funds to developers actively working on the Fediverse.

And I have a thought to take donations, but also maybe do like some and charge monthly amounts for more resources. Or do funding drives. Other things. If anyone has suggestions I'd love to hear them.

I might even run our own BT Free community here on Pieces.social if folks would be interested in following that.

i searched Fedigrow but didnt find this yet, so i guess nobody posted this?

https://fedidb.com/

stonks go don. bad.

https://fedidb.com/stats

line go up, gud.

I used to love doing that for people. Is there anything similar here?

Just reported a spam comment in !foxnews@lemmy.sdf.org (for foxes the animal, not the TV channel) before I remembered the mod is MIA. Now I'm curious if an admin will see my report or not.

Is there a way, without going to the source code, to check how the "explore" panel on mastodon, or the "discover" panel on Pixelfed, are generated.

I find it easy to understand my options for the feed on Lemmy - like "hot", "active", "new", and independently "subscribed", "local", and "all". I also like that I can customize it. Can I customize what I see on Mastodon/Pixelfed in a similar way?

I'm a writer/animator/YouTuber/content creator.

For a little while now I've been consistently putting only fediverse links in the description of my videos. Every video includes my mastodon and a link to the Lemmy post in my community about the video.

So far I don't think this has had literally any tangible effect in growing Lemmy or Mastodon (my mastodon continues to sit at 0 followers), however, I'm hoping that by continuing to include these links and simply having Lemmy be a presence that people see... That will make people more likely to sign up in the future.

My channel and my content are rather small but hopefully just existing in a space where non-fedi users hang out is enough to get people to accept the fediverse more easily.

To me, this feels like an easy way to grow the fediverse... I don't need to explain what it is or how it works... I just provide a link and it opens how people would expect.

I'd love to hear anyone else's thoughts on this practice or other ways that I could include the fediverse into stuff without actively scaring away people that don't like big words.

It might be nice if lemmy clients (voyager, default client, etc) would make a suggestive pop-up:

Would you like to block this community? Your downvote ratio is 100% over the last X days/Y posts.

This is good for lemmy because it will let users have a more positive experience, its helping guide people to get better use of the user interface.

Luckily I haven't really had people post rule-breaking content in my communities. Nobody posting bitcoin spam, being nasty towards other users, or breaking a rule that you cannot just assume exists (I'd assume "do not be mean, do not spam/post on-topic things" to be universal) and would have to actually read the sidebar for (like no posts about humans in bunny suits in !bunnies@lemmy.world). I was wondering if this is most mods' experience on Lemmy.

I remember seeing at least one other community related to this, which had regular math problems.

What I'm thinking is having a general community for any of the following:

• joke style riddles
• more complex riddles (ex. missing dollar riddle)
• math problems (geometry, infinite doors, monty hall)
• optical illusions
• those physics 'what would happen' questions (ex. which bucket would fill first, which way would the balloon move)

Keeping it open would allow for more content, and it will also keep things fresh, since having the same type of question every day might get boring for users.

What should the community be called? Some ideas so far:

• riddler: might be too specific to the character, or the concept or riddles
• ???: I thought this was fun, but it might cause issues with other fediverse platforms
• what: Not as fun, but solves the issue above

What instance should the community be on?

Any best practices? We could have tags for the approximate difficulty of the question. [easy] for mobile game ad type questions, [average] for common riddles, and [advanced] for the complex math questions? + [meme] for joke posts