Here's a few things that are happening that I feel should be addressed:
-196 is reopening in reddit
-our community is causing excessive load on the blahaj.zone servers
-i finally figured out how to add newlines in Lemmy markdown
Two of these things are more important than the third but I figured they should all be addressed.
First things first, the subreddit. Even though the og subreddit is reopening now, I do not plan to close the community. At this point 196 on Lemmy and 196 on Reddit are both separate yet similar communities and this lemmy community has a sizable enough user base and is active enough I feel closing it would be stupid.
Speaking of a sizable user base, the blahaj.zone servers are under excessive load which has been causing the admins to incur fees upwards of $3,000 a month. This is in no small part due to 196 being the fourth largest community on Lemmy.
I'm not sure what the future solution of this will be. It seems like they're going to switch to a cheaper service provider which will also cause the entire website to be slower, at a lower cost.
For this reason, I think that a future migration to a different Lemmy server may be in order. I will be reaching out to major admins of other communities as well as our own ada to see if the pre-existing community can be transferred, or if we'll have to start from scratch if we choose to move. This is very much a developing situation, and I will keep you all posted.
Finally, as you can see. I finally figured out how to add newlines to plaintext meaning that all of my future postings will be much more professional looking. Check out our new and improved rules and regulations pinned post to see just how much of a difference it makes.
You guys are the community, so I'd like to see what you think. Please discuss in the comments section of this post, and I will try to base my actions off of whatever you all conclude on.
Also please point out any typos I may have made I voice typed this on my phone
It's a bit annoying that the Reddit mods are reopening the community after moving a bunch of people elsewhere. Now we have a Raddle, Lemmy, Discord, and Reddit 196 each with different moderators.
Considering the Reddit has almost 50 times the number of subscribers as the Lemmy, I would assume that will be the most popular one, though we will probably have a higher percent of active users.
I would hope that eventually the different mods of the different 196s could do some form of cross-site collaboration to have unity between the 196s but I don't know what that could entail. Maybe the next 196 r/place could shout out the Lemmy community for example.
Just FYI the Raddle admins are enbyphobic and there are serious issues with power moderators abusing positions of authority all over that site. I don't think we should be including Raddle in the conversation
HardlightCereal got banned from Raddle for doxing someone. The site's primary admin quite literally uses they pronouns. That doesn't preclude enbypobia in itself but should at least make you question what HardlightCereal's actual goal is without more evidence.
I didn't doxx anybody. Another user his their Raddle username from me in order to avoid being reported to the admins for rulebreaking behaviour, so I used their displayname on a discord server we had shared and on which they had violated Raddle's terms of service. They later came to me under an anonymous identity and asked me not to use their name from the discord server, so I immediately agreed that I would change to their Raddle name if it was provided. They refused to tell me their Raddle username, and so I could not change the references to their discord displayname on the post.
So in short: They hid their identity to avoid getting in trouble for breaking the rules, made requests of me and made sure I couldn't fulfil them, and then complained to the admins I didn't do the thing they prevented me from doing.