Choosing lemmy.world
In 2025
We have decided to move to a new exciting platform named Reddit
wait, why not blahaj? I dont get it, it was well moderated there :(
There should have been more communication or a poll or something, lemmy world is not known for its clean moderation :(
it was well moderated there because of my excellent mod team, all of whom have migrated as well. we are going to continue to moderate on this instance exactly the same as we did on blahaj.zone.
So back to the question, why not blahaj?
This does not answer the question.
please unlock !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
i want to keep posting on the real lemmy 196. yall do your thing here if u like, but leave me out of that
Ditto, I don't support the move.
I want my trans-friendly community on my trans-friendly server, not .world
We'll continue there without the current mod team.
Of all the instances you chose .world? Yeah this party is probably dead
Lemmy.world lmao
Was there any consultation with the community on this decision?
Nope
Why should there have been one?
Moss and the Modteam are the ones for whom instance swap changes the most, and as far as I know, they have been discussing this for a long time.
All "we" as users have to do is press the subscribe button.
If you look in the other thread you'll see there's a bunch of community members (myself included) concerned that this decision signals a decline in the standards to which it is moderated. The moderator team has given assurances that this won't happen, but that raises the question of why this change is even necessary.
Additionally there's the concern that this decision will further centralise control over lemmy in a small number of instances.
Then there's the fact that 196 is kinda redundant on .world given that multiple shitposting comms already exist there.
Furthermore, instead of locking down the existing community when they moved over here, the mod team could have appointed new members who don't have a problem with the manner in which the blahaj lemmy instance is moderated. There's clearly users who want to stay there, and some who won't move over here.
Both asked their communities before moving. As respect and politeness towards their members.
If you don't ask the community first, then what you're doing is not "moving the community", it's just abandoning the community and starting a new one
Have you considered not trying to forcibly migrate a community from one instance to another (without community consensus), and instead building a community with its own merits?
Yikes
My first reaction was "ew" and after reading into the reasons I still don't agree but I respect it. I'm a bit thrown off by there not having been any discussion of this before if it has been "ongoing for months", though I'm mostly a lurker and maybe I have just missed it.
It honestly looks and feels so wrong but fuck it we ball I guess.
As a long time community member, I hope .world doesn't defederate from .ml. This instance has always been "reddity". This community has always been one of my favorites. I'd hate to lose it.
hmmm
🎉🎊
Can someone tell me why we are moving and why I should care?
I'm too busy spamming shitposts to pay much attention.
Mods are power tripping.
Members of the current community moved to !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone
I see you're getting a lot of criticism so I felt the need to say I support the decision.
The idea behind Lemmy is that users can be a part of any instance they want and not be a part of any instance they don't. The same communities can exist on multiple instances and users can subscribe to all of them, some of them, or none of them. Mods are users too so I see no shame in instance hopping. As a user of Lemmy.ca, literally nothing changes for me besides the words after the "@"
To emphasize how little things changed for me, I was actually already subscribed to this community before the announcement was made. I will continue to stay subscribed to the other community on lemmy.blahaj.zone as well. Nothing has changed for me and my subscribed feed.
I will continue to stay subscribed to the other community on lemmy.blahaj.zone as well.
The place the mods said would be taking to "mod only" and thus effectively closed and useless for everyone?
If they dont want to be mods under a specific instance, thats fine. Whats not fine announcing the community will be archived and locked, move to (insert instance here) for this community going forward, with functionally zero warning or even a damned poll about it
I've just read the other Post at blahaj.zone and now I want to give you (and your team) some encouragement!
Lots of People are upset but I'm not one of them. I like 196 for the Vibes and the memes not the Instance. Some People act like the Instance was THE THING why people subscribed. And (at least for me) it was not. It was literally the only Community (I'm aware of) I subscribed to on blahaj.zone.
And I also agree with you that some Moderation decisions were a bit.... Questionable.
Keep up the good work and don't let the other Folks drag you down, there is always grumbling when things change! 🌈
That's gold ha ha
apparently they were unaware that they'd been appointed, but I couldn't pass up this opportunity.
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