I really started to just use Lemmy as a option b, rather than the main social media I use.

After Lemmy thankfully reached more than 50k active users, the closure of Lemm.ee is expected to lower this number by a lot.

Furthermore, I started to think about what would happen if my current instance got shutdown, as all my communities will be finished and all my activity will be useless.

The whole situation feels hopeless in social media as there is no valuable community-focused social media service to actually replace Reddit for once and for all.

The death of social media is kind of fueling the death of human to human communication.

Currently people are shopping, working, learning and enjoying with almost zero human interaction.

I am expecting a very bad event here. I predict that within the next 10-15 years, there will be a large amount of people who will finish high school without meeting a single human outside their family, that will lead to a generation which will be unable to express their feelings or talk and make relationships.

Over the long term, this is going to make the world worse.

Anyway, I just wanted to write my thoughts here.

  • Stillwater@sh.itjust.works
    18·
    7 days ago

    Personally I think something like the shutdown of lemm.ee highlights the strength of the federated system. No one instance is the center if the universe, no one instance gets to control everything. It goes away and life goes on. You can migrate your profile and subs somewhere else.

    • WhiteRabbit@lemmy.today
      6·
      7 days ago

      I was feeling sad about Lemm.ee, but right now I feel that perhaps we’re too attached to any one instance lol. It helps to have more than one account and on different instances, to not put all your eggs in one basket, so to speak. It sucks to lose comment and post history though.

    • fartsparkles@lemmy.world
      3·
      7 days ago

      Exactly. Lemmy lives on regardless and it’s a glorious thing.

      My heart goes out to the lemm.ee admins and I hope they’re doing okay and getting help where they need it <3

    • Pro@programming.devOPEnglish
      1·
      7 days ago

      What are you talking about?

      All lemm.we users will have to create new accounts, like they never had any account before.

      All lemm.ee communities are shutting down.

      • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        So?

        • Export settings and saves.
        • Make a new account.
        • Import settings and saves.
        • Update bio with link to your old profile on your current instance: http://new.instance/u/olduser@lemm.ee if you really want people to see your post/comment history

        Communities will move as well, it’s not a big deal.

        In your post, you seem worried about the fact that the connections people make will be hyper local in real life, but you seem to be missing the fact that the Fediverse is the antithesis of that online.

        Lemm.ee is just one house in the neighborhood, the important part is the community formed in the entire city, no matter where they live. If a house burns down, the occupants move on, but the community they are a part of remains.

      • Stillwater@sh.itjust.works
        71·
        7 days ago

        You can export your settings and subscriptions to a new account. You don’t have a reddit karma score to care about keeping. The communities will migrate. You do lose your comment history on your profile, but it’s not that bad.

        I will admit I may be biased because I swap accounts frequently.