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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)

  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
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    3 hours ago

    Yeah, I thought it was planned for 0.20.

    I think lemmy.world is the slowest to upgrade of all the instances. I’m not sure which party in the moderation will need to upgrade in order to make the thing work, but you might well be right that it won’t work for lemmy.world users until lemmy.world upgrades, which would mean maybe waiting six months to a year or so before things are actually working. Yet another reason not to mess around with lemmy.world, maybe.

    And I completely agree with your assessment. It sounds to me, reading between the lines, like they were shamelessly abusing Ada’s volunteerism until it reached its breaking point, and then at that point instead of owning up to the real reasons why they need to move, they’re framing it as “moderatorial and ideologial differences” and “We are on good terms with Ada and her team, and have gotten her consent to do this.” and similar responsibility-avoidant bollocks.

    Maybe I’m absolutely wrong about that, it’s hard to tell looking in from the outside from a single message. But that’s my initial read on the situation if I had to take a guess about it.