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submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by moss to c/196

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 reason 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, the fact that a large portion of instances do not federate with lemmy.blahaj.zone has caused our reach to be reduced, with many communities creating their own 196es.
How does this work?
Currently, as there is not an easy way to transfer an entire community (trust me, we checked), so 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. (non-blahaj link)

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[-] hildegarde 20 points 1 day ago

I AM MOVING FROM LEMMY.WORLD!!

It is my pleasure to announce that effective immediately, I am transitioning my account to lemmy.blahaj.zone! This has been a few months in the making, so my entire self is already onboard.

FAQ:
Why?
That's a complicated question with a long answer! The primary reason is ideological similarities between me and Ada's excellent team of admins. I am on good terms with Ada and her team, and have gotten her consent to do this.

How does this work?
Currently, as there is not an easy way to transfer an entire account (trust me, I checked), so I am logging out of the old account, and moving my focus to the hildegarde on lemmy.blahaj.zone. For you guys, functionally nothing has changed.

What about the posts?
Well, I tried to transfer them, but there was no real way to do so without absolutely destroying my brain's sanity. For this reason, I am simply ignoring the old account. Everything is staying up. Direct messages are still enabled, but I'm not going to read them or anything.

[-] HeyLow 13 points 1 day ago

Why do you keep insisting on doing this every year? It's dumb ridiculous and a majority of us like blahaj zones "restrictions". I don't want 196 to turn into lemmyshitposts. I like all my fellow trans people here. It's a nice safe space where I don't have to worry about mass transphobia. Please hand this community on blahaj zones to someone else. For now I will be on !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone

[-] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 9 points 22 hours ago

Unlock the community and transfer it to another mod team. Have fun at lw!

[-] hungryphrog 23 points 1 day ago

'my entire mod team is on board'

Well that's great to hear, too bad you forgot that our community also happens to have a community of people, 99% of whom want to stay on Blåhaj.

people comment on the pinned post expressing their displeasure at the move. Many calls for more explicit details about why the move, why no consultation with the subscribed users, why essentially no notice, and why locking the community here

Mods: lock comment section

[-] TheCoolerMia 13 points 1 day ago

just fyi u forgot to lock this duplicated post too :P

[-] Blaze@feddit.org 8 points 1 day ago

That's next level 😄

[-] Workerbee@beehaw.org 9 points 1 day ago

Very disappointing, as I along with other Beehaw users won't have access to the new one.

[-] JPAKx4 7 points 1 day ago
[-] Anarki_ 33 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The mod team isn't the whole community but fuck what we think of .world and fuck people on instances that aren't federated with them I guess.

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 27 points 1 day ago

Who defederates from blåhaj? Why? As far as I can see it's just a queer instance only bigots would defederate.

[-] trevor 12 points 1 day ago

Bigotry is why, yeah. blahaj.zone has been nothing but a nice instance. lemmy.world on the other hand... 🙄

[-] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 day ago

you didn't explain why though

moderatorial and ideologial differences

doesn't explain much

[-] Smorty 34 points 1 day ago

noooooooo

big sad day has happened. i liked the local and smol feel, but fine....

[-] Sas@beehaw.org 13 points 1 day ago

My instance isn't federated with world afaik 😞 I'm gonna miss you

[-] Neptr 7 points 1 day ago
[-] itslilith 13 points 1 day ago

Damn :c

What has led to that decision?

[-] Stamets@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Welcome to the family <3

Edit: Y'all, I offered a kind welcome. I did not weigh in on the discussion or make any other stance. The fact you're just instantly downvoting kindness on that front and ascribing your own meanings to my statement is really disappointing. Please don't think you know what I am thinking or what I'm saying on that front. I was simply being polite.

[-] moss 3 points 2 days ago

😁 yippee!!!

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 8 points 2 days ago
[-] Blaze@lemmy.cafe 5 points 1 day ago
[-] moss 6 points 2 days ago

that might be a federation issue

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 4 points 1 day ago

Do you see this comment and my comment linking to the community as replies to the same post?

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