As a few of the bigger Lemmy instances are being somewhat overloaded with refugees from Reddit, I thought it would be the perfect time to set up a new high-performance instance, to give more choice for new users. Refugees are welcome here.

The goal for lemm.ee is to provide a home Lemmy instance for anybody that needs one. That means that you are more than welcome here even if you mostly intend to just interact with other instances rather than this one!

If you’re not aware, Lemmy is federated. This means that it works much like e-mail - in the same way as a Gmail user can send e-mails to iCloud Mail users or Outlook users, a lemm.ee user is able to participate in communities on many different Lemmy instances. Regardless of which Lemmy instance your account lives on, you are a part of the federated network and can interact with other users from other instances, so this instance is as good of a place as any other to get started with Lemmy.

For those curious about technical details, this instance is hosted following industry best practices:

• All of the infrastructure is described declaratively as code, which allows relatively quick and safe changes to any part of our infrastructure whenever necessary.
• The servers are running in the cloud (this is not some bedroom server situation!).
• The database is backed up constantly, so in the worst case, we can always recover our data.

This is intended to be a serious long-term instance, not just some random experiment.

If you have any further questions about Lemmy, please check out our guide/FAQ!

If it sounds like lemm.ee might be the right instance for you, then feel free to sign up!