edit: As I’m seeing a lot of worry about the impact this will/could have on the community, please be assured we have the same mod team, and will be holding the community to the same standards. the same things that were always allowed will continue to be allowed and the same things that got things removed before will continue to get things removed before. Lemmy.world admins have agreed to allow us to run our community on our terms.
It is my pleasure to announce that effective immediately, we are transferring our community to Lemmy.world! This has been a few months in the making, so my entire mod team is already on board.
FAQ:
Why?
That’s a complicated question with a long answer! The primary difference is moderatorial and ideologial differences between my team and Ada’s excellent team of admins. We are on good terms with Ada and her team, and have gotten her consent to do this. In addition to this, we have had ongoing issues with federation and moderation that has caused a subpar experience for many people on other instances.
How does this work?
Currently, as there is not an easy way to transfer an entire community (trust me, we checked), we are locking the community as mod-only, and moving our focus to the 196 on lemmy.world. For you guys, functionally nothing has changed.
What about the posts?
Well, we tried to transfer them, but there was no real way to do so without absolutely destroying lemmy.world’s federation. For this reason, we are simply archiving this community as mod-only. Everything is staying up, you just won’t be able to post new content. Comments are still enabled, so we will continue to check our modlogs for some time after the transfer has settled.
As for the posts on lemmy.world’s 196, we’re leaving those up too. From this point onwards, all posts made to that community are beholden to the rules you are all used to, but anything pre-existing is getting grandfathered in.

IF YOU GUYS HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, PLEASE PUT THEM IN THE COMMENTS OF THIS POST, AND I’LL DO MY BEST TO ANSWER THEM.
Once again, here’s the link to our new apartment of awesome. (universal: [email protected])

  • Smorty [she/her]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    33·
    5 hours ago

    if i could downvote, i would! >>>>>>:((((((((

    this is a VERY UNCOMFY move!!! >>>>:((((

    just to make it obvious, these are ANGRY FACES!!! (im saying this cuz maybe 196 mods or whatever cannot understand these kinds of emotions)

    “>” are the ANGRY EYEBROWS! “:” are the EYES and “(” is the SAD MOUTH!!!

    I AM VERY SAD! i will NOT lurk on ur evil .world “replacement”.

    this is NOT what the FEDIVERSE IS MEANT TO BE!!!

    the fediverse is meant to be DECENTRALIZED!!! across MULTIPLE INSTANCES!

    this is NOT a “very fediverse move” you are doing here. This is a “reddit move”!

    im gonna say it. this is straight up u/spez stuff happening here.

    i HOPE that my comment gets blocked or removed by my instance maintainers, so that it becomes OBVIOUS that such hatespeech, which is allowed on .world is NOT OKAY!

    (yes i mean my hatespeech rn, im in evil mode today, this is very evil, i dun like this at all. will not support this evil behavior)

    • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      24 minutes ago

      It’s weird - you and I have never interacted, and we’re usually engaging in totally different discussions in the fediverse, but every time I see a post from you my first thought is “We must protect Smorty at all costs. If Smorty stops posting, the fediverse has lost its way.”

      #makesmortyhappyagain