• Xanthrax@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 year ago

      I assume it’s a political preference, and they’re also trying not to overload our hosts by decentralizing a common interest.

      Edit: fuck, am I wrong? Something did happen; I’m out of the loop.

      Edit 2: Is it Luigi?

          • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works
            6·
            1 year ago

            Heck, if they made a sticky post saying “We’re looking at moving c/196 to another instance” a few months ago when the mod team started working on it[see edit], people probably would be less upset than they are now. Let alone putting it to a poll.

            I don’t want to make it sound like the c/196 team is nefarious or something, because IMO they are not. I just think they had a big lapse in judgement here around transparency, as well as a definition around community ownership that doesn’t jive all that well with a lot of folks on federated services.

            Edit: By the way, friends, if it turns out there was some form of notice in advance other than the current sticky and its duplicate (I know there wasn’t consultation), please tell me. It’s important to be clear on the facts - if we’re not, we get people saying and repeating stuff like “it’s because of the neopronoun stuff that came up”, which is not really true.

            • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
              1·
              1 year ago

              if we’re not, we get people saying and repeating stuff like “it’s because of the neopronoun stuff that came up”, which is not really true.

              Isn’t it? Seems like that issue really brought the difference in moderation styles between the blahaj admin(s) and the 196 mods into focus. The move in itself isn’t really the issue (rather how they did it and to where), but it would not have happened if there wasn’t a rift between community mods and instance admin(s).

              • flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                2·
                1 year ago

                The mod team was mad that a couple people were banned for what they say were “mild takes.” And mad that they asked Ada to unban these people and Ada said no. So they changed to a server where people can be their acceptable level of transphobic.

                People banned from blahaj are posting on every single post that’s gone up in the new community, and commenting as if they don’t have a massive conflict of interest on how Ada’s moderation style as if there’s no sour grapes.

        • LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world
          3·
          1 year ago

          Aight, as a more casual Lemmy user who doesn’t pay attention to the drama, what all has been happening with .world that’s led to folks defedding with it? Only made a .world account cause it was one of the bigger instances around the reddit exodus.

        • lath@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          As a casual observer, it’s interesting to see localized bias in action.

          From what I’ve read so far, this move is supposedly related to a certain dragon using specific pronouns.

          One side consider them a troll and saw blahaj choosing to protect them as a poor move. The other disagrees.

          Your comment is amazing when considering that the opposite side uses the same argument in regards to trolls.

          So I have to wonder whether there really is a troll and who they are or it’s just a bunch of regular people unable to accept the concept of having different opinions on life.

          Nice.

          • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works
            6·
            1 year ago

            From what I’ve read so far, this move is supposedly related to a certain dragon using specific pronouns.

            This is not really true, though not entirely irrelevant either. Some useful information below:
            https://lemmy.world/comment/14552252

            The gist of it is, the mods do not agree with how the blahaj admin moderates, and how they apply the instance rules to the community. The neopronoun stuff could be an example (see: if someone was approaching it in good faith, and got banned for it - I don’t have an example of that, but I also haven’t looked), but isn’t really the gripe here.

            Again, the biggest problem here is just the community mods suddenly saying “Hi guys, we’re over at .world now and c/196 is locked. Go there now” with very little notice, no community input, and scant details up front about the actual issue they had. The fact that the actual conflicts weren’t outlined in more detail is why people are jumping to “it’s because of dragon trolls”. There is a user who uses neopronouns who often caused a stir, and there was controversy around how they/people misgendering them were dealt with, but that’s not it in itself from my perspective, looking into it further.

            • lath@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              1 year ago

              Yeah, a problem with these arguments is that it takes time to go through with them start to end and the popcorn-munching audience (such as myself) have to watch them episode by episode. This results in having incomplete information on the actual situation.

              A more reasonable way would be to wait until the season ends and then read the summary. But needlessly meddling into things is way spicier and hard to resist.

              I should probably hold back more…

              • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works
                3·
                1 year ago

                100% - trust me, I also jumped to the same conclusion based on initial reactions until I was like “Wait, did a mod or admin say something more specific somewhere else?”. Not everyone has interest or bandwidth to do so [helped that I was hungover yesterday, so I rotted on Lemmy all day].

                …come to think of it, there’s lessons that are applicable to the IRL news cycle too, lol.