For those who don’t want to follow the existing 196 community move, some community members have made an alternative community on blahaj.zone

I am not directly involved in the new community, but I’m happy to share it for those looking for a blahaj based alternative.

[email protected]

  • First Majestic Comet@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 hours ago

    I think we should just keep the original [email protected] and pass control of this one on to the mods of the other one. If the existing mod team wants to leave that’s their choice but we shouldn’t end up losing this great community just because they want to migrate. This is our community.

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    6 hours ago

    I don’t really understand what 196 is all about (other than that one rule) but it feels too late to ask.

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    17 hours ago

    Is there a reason we can’t just add a new mod team to the old 196?

    I suppose that may feel a little “takeover”y by its them that decided to move.

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    17 hours ago

    Thank You! I found it absolutely hilarious that their ‘complaints’ were that you dared to enforce site-wide rules on their magazine/community. Thank you for all that you do.

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    17 hours ago

    Whoop whoop, subscribed.

    Also, on a personal note, having a bit more insight in to what was going on behind the scenes, I just wanted to thank you for the extra moderating you were doing over on 196, which their mod team has been open about undoing. Definitely feel safer in your hands than I do in theirs (though really hope for your sake you won’t have to step in as much anymore).

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    17 hours ago

    Can you change the display name to something like “196 (archive)” so it’s easier to distinguish them?

    lemmy-ui community selector with 196 in the search bar, showing two entries titled "lemmy.blahaj.zone/196

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      17 hours ago

      They have decided to move to lemmy.world with zero warning

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        9 hours ago

        Despite using Lemmy for a while now. What’s the significance of this, and does it stop people from being able to interact with it?

        Sorry, I really don’t know too much about this stuff.

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          Every “instance” of Lemmy is like an island. Every island has it’s own population. It has it’s own admin team with their own culture and ideals. It’s one of the strengths of Lemmy. Don’t like reddit’s admins? Deal with it or leave. Don’t like lemmy.ml’s? Okay just go to lemmy.world or thelemmy.club or any other instance. They’re all connected (unless they decide they don’t want to be… but for the most part they are connected), and you can comment and like and post to communities on other instances.

          196 was originally on lemmy.blahaj.zone, but they seemingly have some kind of issue with the admin team there, apparently banning some users in a way that they disagreed with. So they decide to move to lemmy.world. But they never told the users or asked so everyone is kinda mad about that. Not everyone likes lemmy.world, especially since blahaj is known for being super-trans freindly and so is 196.

          It looks like they decided to not move after all the drama though so…