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: !196@lemmy.world)

  • A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    1018·
    16 hours ago

    Moving out of LBZ doesn’t mean we’re not a pro-trans community anymore. As far as moderation goes, nothing is changing. If we see an influx of transphobes or bad actors, we’ll do the same thing we’ve always done and simply ban them.

    • cannibalkitteh@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      20·
      6 hours ago

      As far as moderation goes, nothing is changing.

      How are we supposed to square this with the rationale for the break being to get away from stricter moderating?

      • A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.worldMEnglish
        110·
        6 hours ago

        I’m saying our moderation isn’t changing. Like, the rules page is word for word the same as it was in LBZ. We’re still not tolerating MAGA shit, transphobes, tankie shit, etc.

        • Susaga@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          10·
          4 hours ago

          This raises the question: is it your moderation that people like? Or do people only like it as much because of the extra layer of moderation you dislike?

    • Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      522·
      15 hours ago

      Dotworld’s admins just brought in a policy that specifically requires mods to be permissive of a certain degree of concern trolling and/or sealioning. Can you be sure you’ll be able to moderate the community to the satisfaction of its existing userbase?

      • Moss@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPM
        311·
        8 hours ago

        we have been given a large degree of freedom in how we run our community by lemmy.world admins, with an aggrement that we would be able to continue to moderate our community by our rules. I can guarantee we will not be expected to entertain trolls, as I ensured we would not have to before approving the transfer.

        • nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          1·
          3 hours ago

          I can guarantee we will not be expected to entertain trolls

          I’m so glad for you to explicitly spell this out for us. Really, it was obvious but im glad you’re not hiding

      • A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.worldMEnglish
        412·
        12 hours ago

        I’m pretty sure we can, and they rescinded the policy anyways. I think they mainly wanted to combat censorship, so I think whatever they update it to will be reasonable.

        The kind of content they were concerned about was respectful and well-meaning people, so I’m confident that if we continue to ban/remove people/comments as we have been doing, there will be no problems.