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)

  • dandelionEnglish
    5·
    1 day ago

    I don’t think this is about defederation …

    But to answer your question, I know Beehaw Hexbear defederated from Blahaj. I can’t remember all the reasons, I think Blahaj was considering defederating from them, and they defederated from Blahaj first, claiming Blahaj users were disrupting them (similar claims were being made about Beehaw Hexbear users on Blahaj).

    I think Blahaj defederates from other instances, usually because those instances don’t moderate or remove transphobic and queerphobic content. I don’t know of any other cases where an instance defederated from Blahaj other than Beehaw Hexbear, though.

    • Catoblepas
      12·
      1 day ago

      ??? I regularly interact with Beehaw users. The most recent reply in my inbox is from a Beehaw user.

      I think you’re mixing Beehaw up with Hexbear.

      • dandelionEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        Right, I am not super familiar but I know LW and Beehaw Hexbear don’t talk (not sure who defederated from whom or why), but in that case Blahaj and LW are the same in relation to Beehaw Hexbear.