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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)

  • spujb@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    392·
    4 hours ago

    PTB. Mod didn’t communicate with any of the users, then moved to the most universally problematic instance that’s not ML-associated. Awesome. Fucking stupid.

    I will he blocking the new community and everyone else should too.

    • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
      5·
      2 hours ago

      I think Midwest.social holds that distinction by far, at least in terms of severity, although Lemmy.World definitely is controversial (especially lately) that’s for sure.

      • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
        2·
        54 minutes ago

        I don’t keep up with Lemmy drama.

        What’s up with Midwest social?

        There needs to be a one-pager because every week there seems to be a new one.

        • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
          1·
          6 minutes ago

          Pasting here from a previous reply I made:

          Yeah there was a comment "someone please kill [this person]”, which upon being reported got the reporter banned rather than the poster. And another incident where someone got booted for downvoting a post by the admin. It doesn’t sound like a place that I’d enjoy being on. So I gave up on communities located there and support rather alternatives to them elsewhere. Be a part of the change that we want to see in the world and all of that…

          Edit: but importantly, atm the issues seem related solely to the admins, unlike e.g. lemmy.ml and lemmyfrad.ml and hexbear.net where a good fraction of the users seem to have gotten used to speaking inside that echo chamber and then when they venture outside of it are quite contentious (tbf many of them are self-admittedly alts of Hexbear or LG accounts, though it remains that since the Lemmy.ml admins do nothing to stop the situation by removing the trolling comments made by their users, hence the task of dealing with all the toxicity falls onto others across the Fediverse to take matters into their own hands. Anyway this situation does not seem to apply to Midwest.social.)

    • yuri@pawb.social
      102·
      3 hours ago

      i believe .ml WAS an intended migration point before this was randomly announced. i honestly would’ve been more on board with that! it’s still a bad idea, don’t get it twisted, but at least i might be using the new comm if it had happened that way.

      • spujb@lemmy.cafeEnglish
        201·
        3 hours ago

        i’d be frustrated about using .ml because my instance, along with many others, defederates it. it would mean having to make a new account, which is really inconvenient.

        but there are literally hundreds of other instances to migrate to. and we picked the one that’s already overcrowded and full of power issues.

        this is all without addressing the obvious subtext: moss just doesn’t want to work under ada, who has a strong anti-harassment and trans-friendly moderation policy. that’s fine, but it doesn’t give them the right to lock the original blåhaj community. just leave the instance and start your own, more transphobic space. 😒