• Wugmeister@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    So, back in January the mods of [email protected] announced they were packing up the community and moving to [email protected]. To assist in this, they closed [email protected]. For simplicity, I’m going to refer to them as the .world one and the .blahaj one.

    Now, there were lots of other things they had done that were dick moves, but whats most important is the sheer entitlement of thinking you can just pick up a community and move it, like they own it or something. This pissed off the community here, so one guy created [email protected]. Within an hour, this community was more active than .blahaj had honestly ever been, and it has sustained a more subdued version of popularity since.

    The mods quickly realized that they had shot themselves in the foot, and backtracked with an apology that read like “we are sorry that you peasants were mad about the completely justifiable decision we made, and we hope you feel better soon. Here’s your emotional support sub back.” This just pissed off the community more, and the more we found out about their actions behind the scenes the more pissed off we got. It was a real mask-off moment where we got to see how shitty the mod team was, not just to the community but also to Ada. Personally, the part where I decided to never come back was when they cited an accidental ban followed by a successful appeal as a bad thing that was also Ada’s fault for some reason. Do they think they are above making mistakes? Or do they think they should just not ban trolls because they might hit innocent bystanders by accident? Either interpretation makes them look really bad to me.

    So, the end result of this was that .blahaj’s most active users were burned on the old mod team and hopped to this community. That’s why there are three now.

  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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    2 months ago

    its a success story, and an artifact of a terrible mod decision. mods in the other one unilaterally decided to move 196 to lemmy.world, but the community decided the mods can go fuck themselves… so when the original 196 was locked, this new one with new mods was created.

    at some point the og mods realized they fucked up and unlocked it. i say, the 196 is dead. long live the onehundredninetysix

    • AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space
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      2 months ago

      Have to be real here, while casually browsing from my instance, I usually don’t know if a post I am seeing is from the original or the improvement 🤔

      I am an equal opportunity upvoter in that regard.

      • LinkOpensChest.wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        2 months ago

        I follow both. I honestly hadn’t noticed it’s the same mods on the original 196 though, so if I post henceforth I will post here or on [email protected]

        I never wanted to raise the point to avoid stirring up drama, but based on some exchanges I had in the past with the original 196 mods, I wasn’t terribly surprised they ended up being … the way they are

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        2 months ago

        That’s in part because (at least for a while; I haven’t checked if it’s still true) the new community had changed its display name to be the same as the old community.

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    2 months ago

    Actually, this community is just jam packed with sub, far more than just two.

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    2 months ago

    Long and complicated story… which I don’t really want to even touch upon or think about. Suffice it to say that the mods (a mod?) took the original community somewhere else (.world) but all (most) of the users stayed here on Blahaj.

    Use whatever community on whatever instance you enjoy the most.

    • lugal@sopuli.xyz
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      2 months ago

      Use whatever community on whatever instance you enjoy the most.

      Por que no los dos?