For those who don’t want to follow the existing 196 community move, some community members have made an alternative community on blahaj.zone
I am not directly involved in the new community, but I’m happy to share it for those looking for a blahaj based alternative.
Thank you for this post! 🙏
Great initiative by @SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Aww, thanks! I’m kinda regretting not naming it oneninesix, but here we are. I guess I love letters.
Edit: I relocated my elevator speech to here: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/20973851
If you’re interested in modding or want to provide some feedback/suggestions/anything, PLEASE hop over and let me know in the comments or by PM.
Anyone else who is interested, drop me a line
A few people on that thread: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/20965837?scrollToComments=true
The easiest way to recruit mods would probably to post a pinned post about that
Can you change the display name to something like “196 (archive)” so it’s easier to distinguish them?
Did something happen with the existing 196?
Despite using Lemmy for a while now. What’s the significance of this, and does it stop people from being able to interact with it?
Sorry, I really don’t know too much about this stuff.
Every “instance” of Lemmy is like an island. Every island has it’s own population. It has it’s own admin team with their own culture and ideals. It’s one of the strengths of Lemmy. Don’t like reddit’s admins? Deal with it or leave. Don’t like lemmy.ml’s? Okay just go to lemmy.world or thelemmy.club or any other instance. They’re all connected (unless they decide they don’t want to be… but for the most part they are connected), and you can comment and like and post to communities on other instances.
196 was originally on lemmy.blahaj.zone, but they seemingly have some kind of issue with the admin team there, apparently banning some users in a way that they disagreed with. So they decide to move to lemmy.world. But they never told the users or asked so everyone is kinda mad about that. Not everyone likes lemmy.world, especially since blahaj is known for being super-trans freindly and so is 196.
It looks like they decided to not move after all the drama though so…
Whoop whoop, subscribed.
Also, on a personal note, having a bit more insight in to what was going on behind the scenes, I just wanted to thank you for the extra moderating you were doing over on 196, which their mod team has been open about undoing. Definitely feel safer in your hands than I do in theirs (though really hope for your sake you won’t have to step in as much anymore).
