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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)
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.
Why was it so important to lock down the blahaj community?
unlock the original Community. This ain’t a question but do it anyway.
If the move had nothing to do with pronouns and you’ll continue to enforce rules about neopronouns, how do you feel about one of the LW community team mods making statements like this about them? Do you feel confident that they will always let you enforce neopronoun rules if they decide that it’s hurting LW?
hey i’ve got .world blocked and do not plan to unblock it just because y’all made a hilariously hasty decision. when the man-or-bear thing happened, a frankly stupid amount of folks from there specifically were REALLY VOCAL about their outright misogyny. my experience has been a lot better since.
this was a silly thing to do, and i really don’t see how it aligns with the community’s interests.
Why don’t you unlock !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone and let Blahaj admins deal with the selection of a new mod team?
That does not prevent you from managing !196@lemmy.world
well originally the goal was just to seamlessly transfer things over to lemmy.world, posts and all. over the last few months we tested a couple possibilities with altering databases or using the bot api, but was decided that it wasn’t a feasible option.
what we then intended to do was migrate the community, and leave the previous one up as an archive.
seeing the reception that this decision has garnered, I think that we will leave it locked for a period of time so the people know where the community they are familiar with went.
after that point, there is a decision to be made.
exactly where it was, on blahaj?
It went nowhere, you just locked it without asking the community first.
Then why not do this?
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.
@ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone Any chance you could hand over !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone 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. :(
seconded, spujb is one of the best of us.
I’m not going to forcefully hijack 196, but if the community creates an alternative, I’m happy to let people know about it
Isn’t it that you’re not going to prevent the community being forcefully hijacked?
It seems like they were never consulted or on board with the move.
!onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone for people reading this