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Let's just move a whole community to a new instance without asking! (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Anarki_ to c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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)

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[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 1 day ago

This seems like it belongs more to fedilore, rather than here. Should I be allowing these posts? Rfc I guess

[-] BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz 37 points 1 day ago

I think the power tripping element here is that this seemingly happened in an instant without any (recent?) warning or communication to the users and it has to do with one of the biggest communities on lemmy

Though this isnt the typical senario where a mod abuses their power over an individual, so hmm

(I searched some fediverse drama communities, but didnt cover this issue.)

[-] qaz@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

This has become the defacto community for issues related to bad moderation, so I think this fits

[-] kux@lemm.ee 30 points 1 day ago

might be a bit borderline but probably fine, although it seems more like flouncing off than power tripping. would need more of a writeup to be drama/lore

someone on hexbear has posted blahaj admin ada's message to the 196 mod team, relevant quote:

I have asked 196 for years now to have an active blahaj.zone mod so that someone can deal with the blahaj.zone reports that constantly come through and build up, but still, the best we got were mods with alt accounts that get checked every couple of days, leaving me to deal with the build up of reports on 196. Sometimes they would hang around there for days while I waited for a 196 mod to log in and look at them. And because you don’t like the way I deal with them, you drag me over the coals for my moderation style, despite no one from 196 stepping up to deal with those reports on a regular basis.

full text here https://lemm.ee/post/52977833/17597222

CLM

[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 15 points 1 day ago

That throws the whole thing into a little bit of a new light. Moving to the community where it'll be actively moderated makes quite a bit of sense to me, even if that means lemmy.world.

Then again, supposedly working moderation for moderators on remote instances is just around the corner with the next release. I don't know if that is accurate, but this might have been a problem that was solvable if they were willing to wait a couple of months.

[-] example@reddthat.com 14 points 1 day ago

moderation is working, generally. it's the lack of full report federation that is the primary issue currently.

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[-] Scoopta@programming.dev 23 points 1 day ago

On the one hand it does seem a bit out of place, on the other hand if the mod team is doing this against most community members wishes it is kind of a power trip in a way?

[-] Anarki_ 20 points 1 day ago

Personally I think it fits, which is why I posted.

I didn't mean to sidestep the rules and will ofc take down the post if that's what you want.

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[-] moss@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Hi there, It's me, the "power trippin'" mod. If anyone has any questions raised by this post, feel free to ask me and I'll do my best to answer.

[-] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago

I'm not that familiar with the community other than seeing it often on c/all, but I'm pretty curious on what your expectations were in terms of community reaction. Did no one on the team predict that that people would be angry if you did this without consulting them?

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this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2025

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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.

Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.

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