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)
We’ve been talking about moving out of LBZ way before that happened.
Also, I’ll say it as many times as I have to, we didn’t ban Drag over neopronouns, and we don’t disagree with Ada’s rule about them. We banned Drag for encouraging suicide and violence several times.
Weirdly defensive.
I dont remember that decision on y’alls part as particularly controversial, rather the drama - from some non-blahaj members - surrounding Ada’s announcement following it.
We’re talking about moderation policies here after all, not any one user.
Also, it was in PugJesus’s post about his departure that you first mentioned that the 196 mods had already been discussing moving to .world. A comment that you’ve subsequently deleted. Seems odd to bring it up at that time if it wasn’t in some way related.
I’m just trying to set the record straight, because after that incident a lot of people seem to have gotten the impression that we disagreed with Ada’s decision, or that we banned Drag over neopronouns. But we don’t disagree, and we do respect neopronouns.
And about my comment, I only brought it up because Pug’s post was getting a lot of positive reception, so I thought if people were unhappy with BLZ then it’d be a good idea to tell them we’ve been working on transferring out of there. But Ada got upset over it, and tbh I’m still not sure exactly why, so I removed the comment.