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)

  • Lumelore (She/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    8·
    2 months ago

    We won’t be moving to world with you. We like blahaj and we like 196 being on blahaj. If you don’t want to be here, you should instead just hand over your mod positions to people who do.

  • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    7·
    2 months ago

    I would like to propose a solution that I think can make everyone happy. Transfer ownership of Blahaj 196 to a new mod team and make World 196 the alternate community. If anyone wishes to follow the original mod team into world they would be able to, meanwhile blahaj 196 would follow the values of Blahaj. I personally volunteer to either be the head or a moderator here.

  • 1ostA5tro6yne@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    6·
    2 months ago

    oh boy i can’t wait to be randomly shadowbanned just like on every lemmy.world community where i open my stupid tranny mouth too much.

  • glilimith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    4·
    2 months ago

    I’ve seen a lot of talk about how this move changes the admins the community will be under, but very little about how this will change the randos that pass through. The mods keep saying this won’t change anything, that the moderation will stay the same, etc, but the reason this community is the way it is is that there are a lot of locals that find it. When the new community shows up on l.w’s local page, it will bring in a far different crowd. Their posts, comments, and up/down votes will change the community, and there’s no amount of moderation that will fix that.

    Mods, this is why people are mad you made this change without asking anyone. Many of us do not want an influx of .world users into this space because we know what kind of politics and biases they’ll bring with them and that, even if you moderate the bigots, the normies will still likely overpower the queer voices this community is known for.

  • BeanGoblin@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    4·
    2 months ago

    Adding my voice to the pile. Leave it here. Unlock it and let new mods take over. You can do your thing wherever you want. But let us do our thing where we want.

  • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    3·
    2 months ago

    This move is going to make the community a lot less welcoming to queer folk, by virtue of being on .world alone. I don’t know what rift between Ada and you let to that decision, but I think it’s a big mistake. It feels especially bad for us members of this community not being involved in the decision making process at all, all the more if this has truly been “months in the making”.

    With that said: I strongly implore you to not lock down the community, and instead let a new mod team take over. Not having centralized decisions and power tripping mods is one of the big hopes I had for the fediverse, and this… feels really bad. It’s not a bad thing to have several similar communities on different instances! Please don’t destroy this one over personal grievances

  • nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    I’m sorry but what the fuck are you on?

    lemmy.world

    Literally the worst instance for a decentralized platform (cuz they’re already too big).

    please be assured we have same mod team

    No that doesn’t assure me. Whichever mods signed off on this should be removed from any 196 community because you took rule too seriously and forgot about your community before posting

    It’s really obvious what this is about. And it’s not a good look for you.

  • Kaja@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    2·
    2 months ago

    A move that has been months in the making but only now is getting announced? Has it been announced previously and I missed it or something? I get the motivation for the move, but this feels like the kind of decision that the users of the 196 should have gotten more of a chance to at least give feedback on what other instance 196 should be migrating to.

    • Moss@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPM
      01·
      2 months ago

      while I am still confident this is the right choice of instance to transfer to, i do think you are most likely right. if I had a do over, I would have made a poll before anouncing this. unfortunately at this point, I feel like it’s a little late in the game to do a 360.

      • LuckingFurker (Any/All)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        0·
        2 months ago

        Who could possibly have foreseen that the users of the community wouldn’t like being told that it was closed and they’d have to move? Completely unpredictable behaviour, I’m sure

  • not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    u guys should mod a community on lemmy.world if they share ur values more but don’t steal our community

    • Moss@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPM
      01·
      2 months ago

      we aren’t stealing your community. the people who built and facilitated this community are the people who are migrating this community.

      • dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        5·
        2 months ago

        I think for people who feel safe on blahaj but aren’t guaranteed that safety on .world, it might feel like locking /c/196 on Blahaj and the moderators telling everyone to move to .world is a bit like stealing the community. Maybe /u/not_IO meant that 196 on Blahaj should remain unlocked so 196 can continue to exist on Blahaj, but obviously the question is who will moderate the community if the moderators all leave for .world?

      • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        4·
        2 months ago

        I thought we left that attitude on Reddit, that’s a really disappointing and insulting take. The community is the community, not a handful of moderators. We’re grateful for the work y’all are doing, but, and I really don’t intend this as an insult, moderators are replaceable.

      • LuckingFurker (Any/All)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        1·
        2 months ago

        In that case then why even announce anything? Apparently it’s your community and you can do what you like with it, you take your ball and go home. I assume that means you’ll be making and posting all the content there yourself?

    • Moss@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPM
      31·
      2 months ago

      I reached out to multiple different major instance’s admin teams, and world’s team was most receptive and cooperative. In addition, lemmy.world has a pretty great reputation, being one of the most popular instances.

      • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        2 months ago

        Sounds good. Was kinda hoping for a smaller instance so we’d be less centralized and more federated, but this works alright.

        • Moss@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPM
          31·
          2 months ago

          we considered that, and even had a voulenteer who was open to giving 196 its own lemmy instance hosted on their personal server, but we ultimately decided against it, as running a lemmy instance is expensive and resource intensive, and we’d rather not fundraise/worry about having to move again. A major instance like lemmy.world has an assurance of longevity that might not necessarily be found in a smaller instance.