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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)

  • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    A couple of corrections here:

    One is that while cross-instance moderation report federation won’t come until perhaps 0.19.20, that will not affect the new community, since both the community itself and the mods will be on Lemmy.World. It affected the situation previously but after the move won’t be an issue anymore.

    Crucially, the issue likewise would have been moot if the mods had simply created blahaj alts - which they did - and bothered to log in for those once in a while and check the reports, which it seems they did not. These mods were always choosing to remain more affiliated with Lemmy.World than with blahaj, despite dumping the community into Ada’s lap. And now it’s simply come full circle with the mods moving it closer to themselves rather than log in once a day elsewhere.

    Speaking of, the second issue is that from Ada’s own words, they (people keep saying “she” but I don’t see those pronouns listed in their account so I’m sticking with “they” here, I hope it’s not too confusing: I’ll use whatever Ada wants us to use) never reached the breaking point. It was the mods who allowed the reports to contaminate the modlog - which notably has no filters so this was a legit and actual hardship upon the instance administrator - and leave them there for days.

    Even so, Ada wasn’t the one who told either the community or the mods to leave. Rather it was the mods who even after all of that, reached the breaking point where they refused to accept Ada’s call on how to run their own instance in the manner in which they best see fit.

    Free hosting and admin services and even additional modding help is all not sufficient for those mods, nor does it seem that support of a good fraction of the community is necessary either (sort those comments by Top to easily see what I mean). Then are going to do it their own way. Or at least they’ll FAAFO, then be shocked - shocked I say! beshooketh! - when they see the community reopened under new modship after they’re gone.

    Tbf I cannot imagine what hell a mod would have to endure at the helm of that community. Well, I hope they are okay with whatever comes, truly I wish that for them, bc I’d want the same for myself.:-)