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Ghost of Lemm.ee? (lemmy.zip)
submitted 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) by CascadiaRo@lemmy.zip to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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At the beginning of last month, a crosspost to a lemm.ee community showed up in my feed - and it would seem that it showed up in mine alone.

I commented, but nobody else did - and nobody seems to have upvoted or downvoted the post either.

IIRC lemm.ee’s closure is older than this account.

If anyone has any insight, I’m a bit curious to know how and why this could have happened.

Otherwise, behold and regale this weird thing that happened for me!

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[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (3 children)

It's unfortunate that there's no way to see that a community is on a dead instance - lemm.ee communities will still show up in searches, show that they have subscribers, and look exactly like any other community, including letting you create new posts.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 11 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

While it would be good to see that the instance is gone somehow, I do appreciate that the content is in fact archived and not lost when the instance goes away.

[–] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Though it would have been courteous to edit all the community names which like "[closed]" after the name.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 2 points 5 hours ago

It would have been helpful yeah.