- cross-posted to:
- [email protected]
- cross-posted to:
- [email protected]
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: [email protected])
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Great, more centralization to .world…
seriously? that’s a bad decision.
I guess those ideological issues were the acceptance and safe space for queer people, but fuck us I guess. Don’t worry, we won’t hop on over to the shit show.
Maybe we can start a 197 like how 196 came from 195.
What a shitty fucking take from some power tripped mods.
The primary difference is moderatorial and ideologial differences between my team and Ada’s excellent team of admins
Can you expand on this? It’s not really clear to me why you’re making this move.
Basically it’s “vibes”, that’s the only explanation the 196 mods intend to give us
I have no idea why u thought people would be fine with any of this, this leaves 200% clear that u dont even know the community u moderate
Disappointing
very sad. i can barely use lemmy.world communities as they take weirdly long to federate with my tiny instance. for example, from my instance i can only see the pinned posts on the new 196, and it has been pending subscription since yesterday.
Who defederates from blåhaj? Why? As far as I can see it’s just a queer instance only bigots would defederate.
Please don’t. Like really, or make your own new community. It being on blahaj zone is good
Time to make a new 196. I should move too, but haven’t done so yet because on mobile lots of apps don’t display all posts.
Be sure to follow the rule before you head out.
Rule: You must post before you leave.
OK, we saw your post. You can leave now.
The combination of not involving the community in the decision, only providing a vague reason and locking the original community really rubs me the wrong way.
with many communities creating their own 196es.
Wow that’s terrible, can anyone link some of those 196’s so I can block them?
I think it’s good for 196 to leave because at least to me it’s clear that your values don’t fully align with this instance and if you leave then the trans community posts don’t get drowned out anymore by 196 posts. Hopefully 196 leaving will boost the trans meme communities here a bit more (and maybe there’ll be more interest in a new meme/generalposting community).
Hey so im just a lurker but im really worried about this move:
We all know Meta just allowed all sorts of vile anti lgbt posting on their platform so how do we know .world isn’t going that way?
You said you have a line to the top admin, is that Ruud who wants to federate with Threads, a Meta product that will allow transphobia against community members?
“Communities should not be overly moderated in order to enforce a specific narrative. Respectful disagreement should be allowed in a smaller proportion to the established narrative” - LW admins
Especially concerning since they are forcing communities to allow dissent, just like Meta, so TERFs can just roll up in this community and you have to allow them?
Good point, I even forgot about that
u guys should mod a community on lemmy.world if they share ur values more but don’t steal our community
we aren’t stealing your community. the people who built and facilitated this community are the people who are migrating this community.
This is the most reddit thing I’ve seen on Lemmy and that’s saying a lot
They’ll fit right in on LW.
so you own this shit?
if you’re really going through with this, I dare you to call it 197
I thought we left that attitude on Reddit, that’s a really disappointing and insulting take. The community is the community, not a handful of moderators. We’re grateful for the work y’all are doing, but, and I really don’t intend this as an insult, moderators are replaceable.
Yeah you are lmao because we can’t post here anymore. Unlocking it would be a step towards “unstealing” it.
Setting aside what an awful & insulting response this (the community is the community, that’s why the word exists. Moderators are not the community)…
If you really believe this, then why lock the existing one? Obviously your well planned & executed move will be wildly successful, so there should be no need to lock the existing one. Unless of course 8 people who do caretaker duties on the community are in fact NOT the community, the people are and you need them, even if you don’t respect their opinions or contributions.
In that case then why even announce anything? Apparently it’s your community and you can do what you like with it, you take your ball and go home. I assume that means you’ll be making and posting all the content there yourself?
So the community never belonged to the users, it was only the mods’ ?
