all in all it doesn’t really matter, I don’t think. Nothing much will change. I just really loved that fact that there was a popular community not on .world. I liked it being spread out.

You know whats interesting with all this is while Ada is getting brought up a lot in contrast to the 196 mods, I actually think there’s a mod on fedi that gives an example of how to handle this kind of thing better. Db0 is not perfect per se because no one is, but I can’t think of a more transparent mod off the top of my head (though Beehaws has defederated a few larger instances where they may be). When he(?) wants to do something he just asks his users how they feel. He writes a lot of blogs about whats happening in his community and since he has a hand developing some of Lemmy’s tech hes sure to let you know if a user-affecting change is coming. He’s not perfect but he’s got what I would dub integrity. This might be putting it on thick but I myself have modded a very small (low dozens) community and I’ve felt the burn of a lack of communication that moss is feeling now and its avoidable. Db0 does get into trouble with his users, but clearly he’s actually in it for them.

What happened? I though it was a good place and also I don’t .world is fit for 196.

I am in the process of switching my account from world to blahaj. So I’m not particularly happy about this change.

I’ll use the new 196 as a passive viewer, but I’m unlikely to post or comment after this change.

How do I feel about? I fucking hate it. The last thing that any of the Fediverse needs is more centralization. @[email protected] should take immediate action and demod those that are leaving. The fact is that with the current subscribers count, if a new mod team is installed, there could be no chance of the .world community ever gaining traction. I am willing to spearhead this, but I will need help.

big sad feels ;(

i will not join the 196 on the not blahaj zone! GRRRR >:3

i wan the 196 to be all local and comfy. i wan it to feel like home, with all u cuties and non-cuties-but-still-amazing-peeps in it!

i don wan the 196 to be on generic world instance. will join if there be a local 196 blahaj version!

imagine the COMFY FEELS knowing that U PEEPS made the funi im looking at!! <3

It makes me so sad, and the bottom image is an accurate representation of how I feel about it. It sucks that they made this decision without involving the community at all, and even though they say they’re on good terms with Ada, some of the comment chains in the announcement post make me think that there’s some bitterness on the mods’ part. Ada has always been so nice and patient, even when 196 clogged up Blahaj’s entire frontpage, or when it didn’t have enough mods to handle a growing community. And if the mods don’t like how an instance is run, what gives them the right to just take the entire community and move it somewhere else?

I came to Lemmy when Reddit committed to their API nonsense, and it always had this promise of being better than Reddit. Decentralisation was a big part of that promise. Moving 196 to the largest (I think?) Lemmy instance is the opposite of that. Blahaj feels small, local, cosy, and welcoming, like small concerts in some guy’s basement. 196 always had the same vibes, and the move to .world will probably change that. That scares me because I really liked these vibes.

idk, I’m just rambling and none of it makes a whole lot of sense. I think I’ll take a break for a few days, wait for whatever is gonna happen next, check out the new 196 on .world in a while, and maybe the old 196 is gonna come back somehow.

If they had involved the community from the start, I would’ve been fine with it (tho I heavy dislike .world). Then again, it would not have happened, had they put it to a poll.

The way it happened now, they’ve lost most of my trust and all of my goodwill. I’ll not move. I hope we get the local 196 unlocked under new management, or otherwise we might have to create a new one.

I guess the positive side to this is I will be much more productive at work without 196.

That was Reddit aah behavior by mods.

I noticed they were somewhat unwilling to/incapable of removing comments that were mildly transphobic a while ago so while I’m disappointed that they are gutting 196 instead of new mods being introduced I’m not surprised.

like u said on another comment, Id also be willing to mod a new 196 but not spearhead it :3 (and thanks for teaching me a new word X3) and I think a new 196 on blahaj is the best option, either that or the old 196 comes back along with the old mods (which doesnt seem like they will anyway) and I already didnt like them but now I dont trust them at all, maybe it could be called 197 like back in Reddit X3 or just ‘196 Blahaj’ to differentiate it from other 196s in other instances

I unfollowed every .world community I was previously following, then blocked .world entirely during the pre-backtrack period of their “we wanna do what Facebook is doing” announcement. I did unblock it later, but I’m not following anything on that instance, including 196. I don’t believe what Moss and all them said about their talk with the lemmy world admins, I think eventually when they try again with the moderation change, they’ll enforce it on 196 anyway, despite promising to let them moderate with their own rules. I also don’t like that instance having the most content, which is just going to balloon up even more with 196’s memes, since it starts going against the whole point of the fediverse, the decentralization aspect. If people start saying “well Lemmy world has the ‘best admins’ and the most communities so why make this community on another instance?”, that’s gonna have an effect, you know?

I just feel disheartened.

I blocked the .world 196 community, safe to say I’m not a fan 🤷‍♀️

Wow. This is sad. I didn’t even know 196 was going to migrate before this. I’d probably see it on All once in a while but I don’t think I’d join the community.