??? genuinely confused by what you mean. would you be willing to elaborate?

I don’t know how many times I have to reiterate that that’s not going to happen

if you look into my comment history and moderation history you will see that I have never had an issue with neopronouns. The narrative that we are doing this out of any form of queerphobia is false.

hey there, just weighing in. Neopronouns were not a factor in our decision. In addition, malicious misgendering has always been something that constitutes a removal or ban. this choice was in no way and attempt to reduce the queerness of 196

we aren’t stealing your community. the people who built and facilitated this community are the people who are migrating this community.

glad to hear it!

I did feel like we grew a little bit bigger than made sense on blahaj.zone. the instance feed was 90% our community and I could absolutely see that suffocating smaller ones trying to get started here.

it’s less that lemmy.world needs 196, and more that we think it is an instance that is well suited to host 196. this community is not one that is defined by the instance it is located on

that is exactly what is going on. I’d like to keep what happened behind closed doors behind closed doors. while, for example, publicizing my DMs would most likely give more substance to my arguments, it would burn bridges that I am unwilling and undesiring to burn.

not at all!!!

while I am still confident this is the right choice of instance to transfer to, i do think you are most likely right. if I had a do over, I would have made a poll before anouncing this. unfortunately at this point, I feel like it’s a little late in the game to do a 360.

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.

none of you have to be embattled with anyone. a simple report will do.

this is why I have a large team of moderators who are all on board to filter this out. you guys haven’t seen behind the scenes, but there’s been plenty of this on lemmy.blahaj.zone.

i agree

we only finalized pur plans a few days ago. This was essentially announced as soon as it materialized

I don’t think this is entirely accurate, there were multiple factors at play

it was crossed out because it was rescinded. it was rescinded because it was a bad decision.

I understand this Ada, as I said both in my comments and my DMs with you. I hope there’s no ill will, and that we can remain on good terms.

I mentioned it in another comment, but the main difficulty we had with that was long-term funding