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edit: As I’m seeing a lot of worry about the impact this will/could have on the community, please be assured we have the same mod team, and will be holding the community to the same standards. the same things that were always allowed will continue to be allowed and the same things that got things removed before will continue to get things removed before. Lemmy.world admins have agreed to allow us to run our community on our terms. It is my pleasure to announce that effective immediately, we are transferring our community to Lemmy.world! This has been a few months in the making, so my entire mod team is already on board. FAQ: Why? That’s a complicated question with a long answer! The primary difference is moderatorial and ideologial differences between my team and Ada’s excellent team of admins. We are on good terms with Ada and her team, and have gotten her consent to do this. In addition to this, we have had ongoing issues with federation and moderation that has caused a subpar experience for many people on other instances. How does this work? Currently, as there is not an easy way to transfer an entire community (trust me, we checked), we are locking the community as mod-only, and moving our focus to the 196 on lemmy.world. For you guys, functionally nothing has changed. What about the posts? Well, we tried to transfer them, but there was no real way to do so without absolutely destroying lemmy.world’s federation. For this reason, we are simply archiving this community as mod-only. Everything is staying up, you just won’t be able to post new content. Comments are still enabled, so we will continue to check our modlogs for some time after the transfer has settled. As for the posts on lemmy.world’s 196, we’re leaving those up too. From this point onwards, all posts made to that community are beholden to the rules you are all used to, but anything pre-existing is getting grandfathered in.
IF YOU GUYS HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, PLEASE PUT THEM IN THE COMMENTS OF THIS POST, AND I’LL DO MY BEST TO ANSWER THEM. Once again, here’s the link to our new apartment of awesome. (universal: [email protected])
Hi there, It’s me, the “power trippin’” mod. If anyone has any questions raised by this post, feel free to ask me and I’ll do my best to answer.
Please unlock the Blahaj 196 comm and hand me moderatorship there. I get you have ideological differences but you don’t get to uproot an entire community over personal concerns.
I for one will not be joining the new one. This is an awful decision.
I’m sorry, but no. the only person I would hand over control to is Ada. despite her policy being cited as a reason for our transition, she’s an effective and consistent admin.
@[email protected] Any chance you could hand over [email protected] to me or other mods?
If this goes through and the original community stays locked this is going to be a huge blow to the trans and queer community on Lemmy. :(
I’m not going to forcefully hijack 196, but if the community creates an alternative, I’m happy to let people know about it
I don’t think hijack is the right word. You hijack something when you seize control to subvert it’s original purpose. In this case, you’d be seizing control to return it to its original purpose. This feels more like an anti-mutiny, where the leader goes rogue and the crew refuses to go with them.
I got to say the real cringe is that such a decision took months for their mods and they had to discuss with admins of both sites. Just move the community and be done with it. I hate mods acting like they have some huge job especially on lemmy when the mod log is slow and barren.
lol, according to the admin of blahai, they didn’t even talk to her: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/12466657
But Ada says they had been talking about it in that comment. They let her know they were thinking about migrating, and Ada supported their decision. Then someone from the 196 mod team let her know when they were working out things with LW. 196 mods did drop the announcement without giving Ada a head’s up, which is definitely bad, but by that point she knew the migration was being organized.
Comment I replied to:
had to discuss with admins of both sites.
In her comment:
I was told that you were thinking about moving to another instance. I offered my support if you decided to stay or to leave. And that was the last I heard of it, until one of your mods (possibly you if I remember correctly) told the community you were organising something with lemmy.world, and I had to hear that second hand. And then, when things were finalised and the decision to move was locked in, once more, I heard about it second hand, after your team made a public post, because no one from 196 could be bothered to tell me before posting.
I wouldn’t call this discussion.
Why would they move from blaahaj to .world? That doesn’t do any good for the Fediverse…
Maybe because of the whole “respect all user-specified-pronouns no matter how ridiculous they are” instance rule that was added a few weeks ago?
To put this another way, does respecting “dragonfucker’s” requested pronouns of “drag” and “drag” do more good or more harm for the community?
If using neopronouns didn’t get a reaction out of people, they wouldn’t do it.
Respecting all pronouns is the best way to deal with trolls.
No one wants to be a flasher in a nudist colony.
No one wants to be a flasher in a nudist colony
I’m stealing this for the future
Please do! It’s one of the best examples of how violating a taboo can be more traumatic than the thing itself because of what it represents.