From what I’ve gathered, the main mod (Ada?) seemed to have seen some problems in federation between blahaj and lemmyworld, maybe some other concerns too. So they decided to up and move the community, closing the original 196 to mod-only. It seems there is pushback about the decision, with other mods speaking up with disagreement over the move and the reasons for it, so have started the onehundredninetysix community on blahaj.
Ada is the admin of blahaj, not a part of the mod team for 196. She has final say on anything that is on the instance but isn’t directly involved in 196.
The reason for the move hasn’t really been clear. The mods were vague when they announced the move, effective immediately, and the most common theory I saw was about a certain person who uses neopronouns and an event where Ada stepped in to use her power as admin to overrule the mods of 196. The mods of 196 have since clarified with a vague statement about how they don’t like how Ada handles moderation across the instance (banning trolls more on a “vibe check” than hard rules or something? I don’t really know) and praise for .world’s instance level rules regarding things like trolls and harassment.
The community was blindsided by this, as 196 was locked and moved within hours of the announcement; and they largely voiced disagreement with the decision it seems. In response, I believe some member of the community created onehundredninetysix to keep the community on blahaj, and Ada herself is currently the only mod of the community, though she’s looking for people to take it over.
Ada isn’t a mod of [email protected]. Ada is the admin of lemmy.blahaj.zone.
EDIT: While I’m not subscribed to 196 – not really my cup of tea – and I haven’t been following whatever the issue is, I probably would have moved it too, for more-general reasons. While lemmy.blahaj.zone doesn’t, as far as I know, have any real restrictions on non-trangender content, it’s really a special-interest instance aimed at transgender stuff. It’s kind of like setting up a community about Shakespeare on yiffit.net – it’s not like the yiffit.net crowd is going to take issue with it, but it’s a special-interest instance aimed at adult furry stuff, and that probably isn’t what you’re going for unless your angle is specifically an adult furry take on Shakespeare. Which, I mean, I guess someone could be, but I don’t think is the case with 196.
EDIT2: A curious search on Kagi reveals that apparently there is a published dating sim game on Steam specifically dealing with furry Shakespeare with multiple DLCs. I’ll be damned.
From what I’ve gathered, the main mod (Ada?) seemed to have seen some problems in federation between blahaj and lemmyworld, maybe some other concerns too. So they decided to up and move the community, closing the original 196 to mod-only. It seems there is pushback about the decision, with other mods speaking up with disagreement over the move and the reasons for it, so have started the onehundredninetysix community on blahaj.
I think that’s the gist of it
Ada is the admin of blahaj, not a part of the mod team for 196. She has final say on anything that is on the instance but isn’t directly involved in 196.
The reason for the move hasn’t really been clear. The mods were vague when they announced the move, effective immediately, and the most common theory I saw was about a certain person who uses neopronouns and an event where Ada stepped in to use her power as admin to overrule the mods of 196. The mods of 196 have since clarified with a vague statement about how they don’t like how Ada handles moderation across the instance (banning trolls more on a “vibe check” than hard rules or something? I don’t really know) and praise for .world’s instance level rules regarding things like trolls and harassment.
The community was blindsided by this, as 196 was locked and moved within hours of the announcement; and they largely voiced disagreement with the decision it seems. In response, I believe some member of the community created onehundredninetysix to keep the community on blahaj, and Ada herself is currently the only mod of the community, though she’s looking for people to take it over.
Ada isn’t a mod of [email protected]. Ada is the admin of lemmy.blahaj.zone.
EDIT: While I’m not subscribed to 196 – not really my cup of tea – and I haven’t been following whatever the issue is, I probably would have moved it too, for more-general reasons. While lemmy.blahaj.zone doesn’t, as far as I know, have any real restrictions on non-trangender content, it’s really a special-interest instance aimed at transgender stuff. It’s kind of like setting up a community about Shakespeare on yiffit.net – it’s not like the yiffit.net crowd is going to take issue with it, but it’s a special-interest instance aimed at adult furry stuff, and that probably isn’t what you’re going for unless your angle is specifically an adult furry take on Shakespeare. Which, I mean, I guess someone could be, but I don’t think is the case with 196.
EDIT2: A curious search on Kagi reveals that apparently there is a published dating sim game on Steam specifically dealing with furry Shakespeare with multiple DLCs. I’ll be damned.
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