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)

  • KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    8·
    43 minutes ago

    I guess those ideological issues were the acceptance and safe space for queer people, but fuck us I guess. Don’t worry, we won’t hop on over to the shit show.

    Maybe we can start a 197 like how 196 came from 195.

    What a shitty fucking take from some power tripped mods.

  • blackn1ght@feddit.uk
    17·
    1 hour ago

    The primary difference is moderatorial and ideologial differences between my team and Ada’s excellent team of admins

    Can you expand on this? It’s not really clear to me why you’re making this move.

    • Taalnazi@lemmy.worldNederlands
      1·
      50 minutes ago

      Time to make a new 196. I should move too, but haven’t done so yet because on mobile lots of apps don’t display all posts.

  • danakongur@lemmy.spronkus.xyzEnglish
    4·
    40 minutes ago

    very sad. i can barely use lemmy.world communities as they take weirdly long to federate with my tiny instance. for example, from my instance i can only see the pinned posts on the new 196, and it has been pending subscription since yesterday.

  • regdog@lemmy.world
    11·
    2 hours ago

    Be sure to follow the rule before you head out.

    Rule: You must post before you leave.

    OK, we saw your post. You can leave now.

  • Sylveon@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    33·
    3 hours ago

    The combination of not involving the community in the decision, only providing a vague reason and locking the original community really rubs me the wrong way.

  • Sop@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    1·
    37 minutes ago

    I think it’s good for 196 to leave because at least to me it’s clear that your values don’t fully align with this instance and if you leave then the trans community posts don’t get drowned out anymore by 196 posts. Hopefully 196 leaving will boost the trans meme communities here a bit more (and maybe there’ll be more interest in a new meme/generalposting community).

  • seawoowaes@lemmy.world
    25·
    3 hours ago

    Hey so im just a lurker but im really worried about this move:

    We all know Meta just allowed all sorts of vile anti lgbt posting on their platform so how do we know .world isn’t going that way?

    You said you have a line to the top admin, is that Ruud who wants to federate with Threads, a Meta product that will allow transphobia against community members?

    “Communities should not be overly moderated in order to enforce a specific narrative. Respectful disagreement should be allowed in a smaller proportion to the established narrative” - LW admins

    Especially concerning since they are forcing communities to allow dissent, just like Meta, so TERFs can just roll up in this community and you have to allow them?