All I’ve seen is “differences in opinion” but no one actually saying what they disagree over? Seems like a lot of drama over nothing from my perspective?
This is heresay from another thread on the topic, but I’ll repeat it here:
The 196 mods were from the lemmy.world instance despite 196 being hosted on blahaj.zone, resulting in delays of moderation actions. Blahaj.zone admins stepped in to pick up the slack, but the mods didn’t figured a better solution would be to just move it to lemmy.world, but apparently some instances are federated with blahaj but not world, or had other reasons to not want it to move, causing drama…
Sometimes, users make comments and posts that are tricky to moderate. In those situations, it appears the 196 mods wanted to be a bit more lenient, while the admin wanted to be a bit more strict in terms of removing that content. It’s not one specific thing, it seems like more of an accumulation of small decisions that built up and caused the mod team to make a rash decision.
Ada does not accept sealioning and “Just asking questions”-types in the very trans-friendly space on blahaj.zone, which doesn’t seem to be an issue for the mod team (showing how much they are out of touch - moving 196 to .world is a bad move, because such user conduct is more acceptable on .world). Also, it seems that the decision wasn’t “rash” - A commenter in the “what went wrong”-post remembered that a mod off-handedly wrote that they were thinking about moving to .world about a month ago (and got pushback even back then). Also, trying that move without even consulting your community once is either pretty bold or pretty stupid, depending on viewpoint.
All I’ve seen is “differences in opinion” but no one actually saying what they disagree over? Seems like a lot of drama over nothing from my perspective?
The mods latest statement helps explain somewhat: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/20976989
This is heresay from another thread on the topic, but I’ll repeat it here:
The 196 mods were from the lemmy.world instance despite 196 being hosted on blahaj.zone, resulting in delays of moderation actions. Blahaj.zone admins stepped in to pick up the slack, but the mods didn’t figured a better solution would be to just move it to lemmy.world, but apparently some instances are federated with blahaj but not world, or had other reasons to not want it to move, causing drama…
Sometimes, users make comments and posts that are tricky to moderate. In those situations, it appears the 196 mods wanted to be a bit more lenient, while the admin wanted to be a bit more strict in terms of removing that content. It’s not one specific thing, it seems like more of an accumulation of small decisions that built up and caused the mod team to make a rash decision.
Ada does not accept sealioning and “Just asking questions”-types in the very trans-friendly space on blahaj.zone, which doesn’t seem to be an issue for the mod team (showing how much they are out of touch - moving 196 to .world is a bad move, because such user conduct is more acceptable on .world). Also, it seems that the decision wasn’t “rash” - A commenter in the “what went wrong”-post remembered that a mod off-handedly wrote that they were thinking about moving to .world about a month ago (and got pushback even back then). Also, trying that move without even consulting your community once is either pretty bold or pretty stupid, depending on viewpoint.
Locking the existing version of a community and forcing people to move to another instance without any prior consultation is indeed quite rash