I think it's more like .... "why are you excluding us?" ... "you should be like us" ... "no wait, I think you need to be like us" .... "no wait, you HAVE TO be like us" ... "you will be forced to be like us"

.... "also .... why do you hate us?"

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 23 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

"We move to a safe instance"

The instance staff (https://fedihosting.foundation/lw-team/)

[–] WrittenInRed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Honestly if this gets all the people who have problems respecting "weird" pronouns/gender identities to leave for .world it'll probably be a net positive for 196 and blahaj.zone as a whole.

[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 14 points 16 hours ago

I have problems with it... understanding it at least, but I have zero problems respecting it. I think that might be the key right there.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 6 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

I'm thinking, do you think the mods' move had anything to do with this person's trolling?

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Thats what kicked it off yes. See this post https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/27502118

Random user writes:

I knew Blahaj was never ‘for’ me, but I always felt comfortable here. Guess that’s over. Ada and the admins have the right to cultivate the community they want to see on Blahaj, and I wish them the best of luck going forward.

I’m going to miss 196 and Femcelmemes, but… well, Blahaj isn’t for me, since I don’t acknowledge ‘dragonfucker’ as a gender.

Mod of 196 responds:

deleted by creator (It said something about planning to move to .world because blahaj bad)

This is then followed by an overwhelming opposition to the idea of moving to .world. Saying that this is not an option and if at all needs to involve a poll of the community of sorts.

The mod (A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world) then deletes all his comments about moving to .world.

Fast forward to now, where they quickly lock the whole community and attempt a coup.

Also this wonderful quote from that same mod in this thread:

By “asap” I didn’t mean any minute now. :p Rest assured we wouldn’t make such a big change without at least telling you guys outside of a comment on a random post. And I agree a poll would be a good idea.

Smug bastards

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 6 points 17 hours ago

Good investigation 🧐

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I have no idea to be honest

[–] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 18 hours ago

I think it only indirectly had an effect. Certain users already disliked how things were, and drag was just a hill they thought they could die on.