It's shutting down, but the fediverse is healing around it. Piefed.social has seen a huge influx, and people are moving accounts slowly but surely.

Lemm.ee shutting down isn't ideal from a service stand point, but it is showing how robust the fediverse is. It's acting like the internet used to, routing around damage to continue to work. That's amazing, and hopeful.

I'd even say that this illustrates the success even more...

• lemm.ee shuts down, iirc, because it took too much time and effort to run the instance. Not really a sign of inactivity.
• the platform keeps going! The whole idea of a federated network works, as a single instance going down doesn't impact other ones. As it happened before, see e.g. feddit.de.

So Lemmy as a whole is alive and healthy - and successful.

It's alright https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/45977837

Because of a lack of admins/mods not due to low users or money

I mean while yes it’s a tragedy. People have just moved to the other instances such as Piefed.social and Lemmy.zip.