196

Would you consider reconsidering?

I'm sorry, but lemmy.world was the worst possible decision for a place to relocate to. I wouldn't follow you there even if I could. If you really have to go with a big, liberal instance that will let you moderate however you want at least you should have gone with lemm.ee. They're not making lemmy monolithic, not as much of a troll magnet, and far more competent at what they do.

Neutral observation: World's userbase is incompatible with the attitudes and queer acceptance of nearly any community that originates from a place like Blahaj. Your comment sections will go to directly to shit. You will constantly be embattled by .world bigots. Sea-lioning and whataboutism will be common and things you never imagined would be controversial will be. Given the incoming administration I would stick to spaces carved out for the culture you want to see on a "r/196-like" board.

I'm gonna be honest, my first response to reading this headline & image, as well as the small snippet of the body visible from my app's home page, was "huh, bit early for an April Fool's Day joke". It would have been surprising enough if the move has been anywhere, but LW is the last non-tankie instance I would have expected, given the modding/admin drama they've been through recently.

I'm guessing LW was chosen because there's a pre-existing (if inactive) community there already?

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh no

Lame move. The .world instance has been getting worse for a long while. Why not go elsewhere if it's really that important? 196 is one of the most active communities I've seen so the de-federation issue doesn't sound like one.

agh idk dog... the comment sections of lemmy.world are a bit of a cesspool. I'll miss the pro-trans good vibes

Well, shit… 196 was probably the core of my feed, and my instance doesn’t federate with .world.

Bye then, I won't be following

if you're concerned about defederation, why would you go to lemmy.world, which seems no better on that front than lbz?

That why doesn't really answer much. Are we making 196 a safe space for transphobia or something?

Do we really need more centralisation? .world is already too big.

Gonna be real sad to lose such a large part of my feed. Hope things do well for you over there.

.world is too big already, also I understand your moderation concerns but this is a large change that I don't think has been thought through. Why not move to a smaller instance to strengthen federation, or make your own if you can afford to host it?

This ain’t it.

Well, it doesn't seem to be a joke, guess the mods like admins forcing changes to moderation policies, unless users throw a massive shit storm.

Wow this is disappointing. Lemmy world seems so massive already which kinda defeats the purpose of federating a bit I feel. Too centralized. I’m just waiting for the seemingly inevitable implosion of world haha.

I mean ultimately it’s whatever, it is what it is and I’ll follow 196 wherever it goes.

Bummer