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  • Yeah, that's a power trip, strange to be posturing as anti-authoritarian but then unilaterally making decisions like that.

  • From what I can gather from what little they want to share it's very clear to me that they wanted to move to world to attract a larger audience and also so certain transphobic users could participate again. They also repeatedly claim that the community is the moderators rather than the users, which just makes it clear how out of touch they are.

    Edit: Also, it's super obvious the reason they don't want to give over the old community is so people are "forced" to move to their new world community. They only care about number go up.

    • Well, technically they aren't wrong.

      Anyway, people are really enjoying the new 196 community. By which I mean the !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone community that is growing by leaps and bounds every hour. In the last 3-4 hours there have been 80 posts, 900 users, 360 subscribers... by comparison, in !196@lemmy.world I see just 4 posts, one of which is the new set of regulations threatening people to be banned even before they read any existing posts (bc it's pinned above them I mean).

      There is really no comparison here.

      • To be fair that post was in the old 196 as well. It's a rules explanation thingy.

      • Literally telling on herself that she's inactive for weeks to months at a time. But yeah, definitely Ada's fault for trying to actually moderate the largest comm on the instance. I think both sides here are at fault though, as I've seen (and been disappointed by) the way Ada moderates the matrix space she runs.

  • Not Relevant, I can't believe it. How is that proper Moderation? That PTB didn't realize that the community they was the self-proclaimed head-honcho would dislike this shit move. By locking the original community they cemented their position as shittiest mod of all time.

    • I just don't get why they don't unlock it.

      • how can they still be in power when the original exist. That's my guess why they don't want to unlock it.

    • There's another matter too.

      Saying anything remotely iffy with a lemmygrad, threads, or hexbear account.

      Last time that I checked this crap, I was busy criticising Hexbear, because HB was clearly trying to boss Blåhaj around on how it should manage its own instance.

      However, both sides are in the wrong here, and Moss isn't exactly blameless - why are they enforcing rules differently for users based on instance? Handling other instances is up to the admins, not community mods.

      (The same applies to Threads.)

  • PTB.

    I have no idea which ideological problems people are talking about. I do know however that users are not cattle - you can ask them to migrate to another comm, you can lock a community down, but you cannot herd them to the comm that you want by saying "go there". And trying to prevent users from going to whatever comm they want is a big arsehole move.

    Even the removal reply is power-tripping (and dumb/disingenuous/shitty). "Not relevant"? Goddammit this is a 196 community, there's no such thing as "not relevant"! Who are they trying to fool with that toilet entry?

    • No idea, but !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone is thriving

    • I don't follow that community but one theory seems to be that ultimately it might have been dragon fucker that broke it all apart - https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/15732326.

      Though the actions and words of the mods themselves tell the entire story all on its own really - they "own" the community, there is no need for a poll, they did not appreciate Ada's "help" despite all the hardships they caused her by failing to attend to the modlog in a timely fashion (which due to its lack of filters is a legitimate hardship upon her), and basically they want the power that any instance admin (like spez) has, yet are completely unwilling to take any of the responsibilities that would come with it.

      Oh well, the new community at !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone seems to be moving along supremely well without those mods already...

      • The comment that you linked hints that the mod was already considering the migration for quite a while; so if the dragon rider event had any role, it was like a drop of water in the ocean.

        If I had to take a guess it's all about the admins keeping a closer control over the community than the mod in question wants to see. So far, so good, if she wants to mod a LW comm instead it's her own decision, but then relinquish control to the people who were clearly against the move.

      • Drags a dickhole but if people didn't get upset about him he would have had no power, that's how shit stirrers work. how hard is it to just use a singular they rather than giving them what they wanted...

  • Well, I can now say that I've been around to witness my first big users versus moderators versus admins battle royale on Lemmy. And within my first week here! It's been fairly entertaining and also feels like I should have an achievement badge on my profile now. Just need the next achievement of being a participant in one of these matches.

    • Honestly Ada is hilariously minimally involved, mods being like "we don't like the admin enforcing the instance rules so we're gonna make everyone move to .world!" And then users replying "lmao fuck off we like it here and you can't make us go anywhere"

      • Yeah that's been one of the funniest parts to watch. It's been moderators versus admins but not users versus admins. Personally I think it's a pretty simple concept that the instance rules come first, then the community rules. I'm not surprised by anything I'm seeing or hearing on the admin side because I think it's pretty clear what to expect when you enter the place and read the sidebar.

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