I’m not going to pretend the data is safe—it will disappear eventually.

That’s what’s valuable, yeah. Lots of great posts that I don’t want to be lost.

But, it’s not like we lost everything that was produced in that community overnight, even with the server going offline.

Fair.

I did create a list of all posts submitted to !spotifyplaylists@lemm.ee at !spotifyplaylists@lemmy.world so that all those valuable posts are not lost.

What it meant to me was that I had to unpin the link to my lemm.ee account from my Firefox home page.

It could’ve been the case that I would’ve had one less instance to choose from, but in the aftermath of the announcement, I found two new instances I wanted to try, so I’m actually one ahead in the long run.

And that’s it.

Direct link to the article: https://sebastian.lauwe.rs/blog/lemmee-shutting-down/

From what I’ve seen, it means a bunch of bitching.

Probably a good article to share to people skeptical about the resiliency of the Threadiverse

But here’s a bonus feature: many platforms allow you to easily migrate your account to a new instance.

But Lemmy isn’t one of those platforms. Right?

Generally I agree with the article that the shutdown of lemm.ee isn’t a big deal. It sucks for sure, but the Fediverse survives.

Personally I don’t care about account migration. Export/import works fine, but I get that it’s a little clunky for some.

Community migration is something that I think is more important and as I understand PieFed handles this. Hopefully Lemmy will someday and even better between Lemmy & PieFed.