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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)
Why would they move from blaahaj to .world? That doesn’t do any good for the Fediverse…
Maybe because of the whole “respect all user-specified-pronouns no matter how ridiculous they are” instance rule that was added a few weeks ago?
196 mods were working on doing this even before that, but that was actually not the first time that Ada had to make an announcement post about that exact policy. I saw it first come up in Blahaj Meta many months ago in the events that eventually led to me taking a mod position at LibertyHub
To put this another way, does respecting “dragonfucker’s” requested pronouns of “drag” and “drag” do more good or more harm for the community?
For clarity are you suggesting that some pronouns shouldn’t be respected based on the judgement of the mods?
To put this another way, does respecting “dragonfucker’s” requested pronouns of “drag” and “drag” do more good or more harm for the community?
Pronouns are not negotiable. Considering that pronouns are “deserved” is an easy path to limit their use to other conditions.
Drag is known to be a troll, and should be banned for trolling when relevant. That doesn’t have much to do with pronouns, those are two separate matters.
If using neopronouns didn’t get a reaction out of people, they wouldn’t do it.
Respecting all pronouns is the best way to deal with trolls.
No one wants to be a flasher in a nudist colony.
“lack of local moderators” seems to sum it up. the mods just didnt want to use blahaj accounts
