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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: [email protected])

  • yuri@pawb.social
    13·
    4 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
      24·
      4 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. 😒