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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: !196@lemmy.world)
I’m not sure, where’s the power tripping?
It sounds like a well coordinated transition between servers.
Locking up the community on they’re way out may have been well coordinated, but it isn’t well received.
It feels a lot more like capitalism than community: Listen up, I own the deed to this community and my property rights are supreme.
I guess I joined lemmy just in time for all the chisme 🫖☕
Edit: a word
Welcome!
Well coordinated, except for the fact that the community itself seems to hate the idea.
I saw a comment who was like “this is the most Reddit thing I’ve ever seen on Lemmy, and that says a lot”
The most reddit thing I saw was a crazy mod thinking that validating trolls creates a safe space for legit users.
It’s not, most of the users on !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone would prefer that community to stay open, wherever the mod team wants to go.
The comments in the pinned thread there are pretty unanimous.
I dunno, it seems like an inevitable move to me tbh. Ada’s moderation has never coexisted comfortably with the 196 community. Remember when blajah started welcoming in an influx of tankies because of “inclusivity”? 196 is an explicitly anti-tankie community, so that never sat well with them.
Tankies defederated Blahaj later on IIRC
True, but damage was done I guess.
By that logic the last LW decision should also discourage people to move there https://lemmy.world/post/24135976
It did, along with other controversial decisions prior to it.:-)
Which makes this decision all the more odd. In the OOP, the mods explain how they are basing this off of having communicated with LW admins directly and received assurances of support that they can moderate as they please.
Which seems to me to be directly in contradiction to the announcement but… I’m just saying what I saw in the OOP. They seem to think that they will be treated specially - and who knows, perhaps they will be, or more likely they seem to agree with LW’s latest policy shifts, i.e. lesser severity moderation that allows more to be said and removes far less overall.
That policy seems more targeted towards censorious tankie mods than any other group, although they didn’t say so out loud.
Edit: Also looks like they are revising it yet again lol.
Indeed