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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)

  • ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.comEnglish
    463·
    8 hours ago

    I got to say the real cringe is that such a decision took months for their mods and they had to discuss with admins of both sites. Just move the community and be done with it. I hate mods acting like they have some huge job especially on lemmy when the mod log is slow and barren.

      • KombatWombat@lemmy.world
        31·
        1 hour ago

        But Ada says they had been talking about it in that comment. They let her know they were thinking about migrating, and Ada supported their decision. Then someone from the 196 mod team let her know when they were working out things with LW. 196 mods did drop the announcement without giving Ada a head’s up, which is definitely bad, but by that point she knew the migration was being organized.

        • idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          3 minutes ago

          Comment I replied to:

          had to discuss with admins of both sites.

          In her comment:

          I was told that you were thinking about moving to another instance. I offered my support if you decided to stay or to leave. And that was the last I heard of it, until one of your mods (possibly you if I remember correctly) told the community you were organising something with lemmy.world, and I had to hear that second hand. And then, when things were finalised and the decision to move was locked in, once more, I heard about it second hand, after your team made a public post, because no one from 196 could be bothered to tell me before posting.

          I wouldn’t call this discussion.

      • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
        306·
        6 hours ago

        Ada gets a super bad rep by people who haven’t read anything from them directly. I love how in this response some of that is explained as in inheriting the drama caused by others that Ada had to go in and clean up after.

        I respect Ada all the more now as a result of their words here.

        • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
          302·
          6 hours ago

          Yeah the 196 mods saying they had beef with Ada doesn’t make me think 196 needed to move, it makes me think they need to learn to listen better. Ada isn’t perfect, but they’re consistently calm headed and even handed. Lemmy.world’s admin team on the other hand is…

          Look.

          The 196 mods are telling us more about themselves than anyone else right now.

          • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
            3·
            46 minutes ago

            Right? If Ada was banning on vibes, be ready to get that Lemmy.world banning because of a bad roll of the dice.