We Will Miss Them Dearly!

OOTL here. Please give context.

Lemm.ee (second largest Lemmy instance) shut down on June 30 and Dubvee.org will shut down on July 31st (friendly instance that created the frontend Tesseract) both due to admin burnout.
- Damn. The dubvee admin's post puts into words my thoughts on the fediverse. As a user I can mitigate it to an extent by blocking instances/communities/users but an admin doesn't have that luxury. I'm not surprised he came to hate it because even with my heavily curated block lists I still get irritated by the childish shit on here sometimes.
- dubee.org seems to have shut down as of today
lemm.ee admins shut the instance down, and I presume the other is another instance that recently got shuttered.

We truly will.

Ehhh on Dubvee. The admin burned out because he cannot imagine justifying the barest suggestion of impolite response to intolerable situations.

His username is a military rank.

The project was always on borrowed time because the one guy in charge is genuinely aghast every time someone wishes a fascist would stub his toe. My man is from West Virginia. A state that only exists because they chose righteous violence over loyalty, during the civil war. A state whose workers fired a million rounds at strike-breakers throughout Appalachia. And he can't figure out why people are so gosh-darn irate, as the federal government talks about rounding up millions of innocents.

His username is a military rank.
come on..it's from star trek lol and i think posts like urs are one of the reasons he leaving. ur being wy more snarky than u have to be in that post
- He's never read a word I wrote, because he one-strike instance-banned me for upvoting the wrong comment.
  Things are fucked, right now. Inviting people to talk about them, and then being shocked, shocked!, at their utterly predictable responses to this escalating hellscape, is not a problem with the people.
Say whatever you want, in your own home and on your own instance. But when he federates content from other instances that could actually get him thrown into an irl concentration camp if the ears in the walls find it on his servers... well, I can see why he shut it down.
- He doesn't seem to believe that. The root issue is, he treats any deviation from polite liberal norms as equally baseless and intolerable. When he says he's just, ugh, so tired of people freaking the fuck out over escalating fascism, he is completely sincere.
  Dude writes stuff like "The worst part is that they're so caught up in their own self-righteousness that they can't see they're just as bad or worse than what they're spewing violent rhetoric at." Does that sound like he's worried about people in camps? Because to me it sounds like stock both-sides enlightened centrism. While one side is filling the camps.

Did the IT team at West Virginia University block Lemmy?

ngl I thought that too