As the other commenter mentioned, there's no monetary value for JKR for there to be HP-Themed communities.
Yes there is, because it helps keep her relevant
You (or someone else) is welcome to create a community like that! I won't, because I'm cautious about taking too much on, and I don't want to directly be responsible for another community on top of admin stuff.
"small political differences"
A nazi salute isn't a small political difference...
Some of the folk who swallowed the propaganda and want to erase folk like me from the planet may have been conned, but however they got there, their goal is still to hurt other people.
I've pinned this post and will leave it pinned for a couple of days. Lets see if we can drive some new members your way
it makes clear the distinction between sex and gender, and wants official operations, including assignments of “intimate” spaces to be based on sex, not gender.
That's not mild. That's going to kill people
That's not a great user experience, so it's not an ideal approach IMO.
We let people use the built in uploader, then offload the uploaded image to the proxy, and then redirect requests for the uploaded image URL to the proxy. It was the only way we could really deal with the volume of images without having to either limit images or force them to be external
supakaity@lemmy.blahaj.zone implemented a custom image proxy for us.
Ada was banning users without telling the mods.
I was banning users from the whole instance, not specifically from 196. Instance bans doesn't get pre-approved by community mods. Which is how every admin on every lemmy instance works, including lemmy.world.
But I had to take it down because Ada was getting upset over it
You didn't have to take it down. What I got "upset" at isn't that you told people you were planning on moving. It's that you told the community you were "working with me" on your planned move. I had a single conversation with moss, in which I told her I would support her if she decided to move, and that was the last I heard of the subject, until your post.
You telling people you were thinking of moving before you moved was a good thing. You planning a move, not communicating with me about it, and then telling people you were working with me is what I took issue with.
I feel I need to clarify that. I am not saying that the 196 team didn't moderate. What I'm saying is that because most of their moderators are based on remote instances, due to the way lemmy reports and moderation work, some of the reports fell through the "federation cracks" and didn't get actioned remotely. And because mostly they appeared to be issues about the community rules rather than instance rules breaking, I would leave them alone. But as a result, they would regularly sit in my reports queue for a day or more, because they don't go away until someone explicitly actions the report or closes it.
As an admin, I see all reports that cross the instance, and I have to ignore lots of them so that the community mods can deal with them and close them down, because if I close the report, the community mod might not ever see it.
My frustration with 196 is that having their reports hang around for a couple of days was a semi regular thing, which made admining more difficult, because there were always active reports in my notifications that I couldn't close. I asked for them to put on blahaj based mods, or spin up blahaj alts, which they did, and that improved things, but because they were alts and the majority of the mods were still remote, the problem never entirely went away
tl;dr - This wasn't a case of 196 mods not moderating. This was an issue with a lack of dedicated blahaj presence creating more workload for me.
Edit - As an aside, this issue also put a bigger spotlight on our moderation differences, because if a remote mod closed a remote report but left the post itself in place, the report on blahaj.zone would stay open, and I would have no idea if a community mod had looked at it. Which is to say, reports for content that didn't break 196 rules, but did break blahahj.zone instance rules were more likely to come to my attention, because the report would hang around on blahaj.zone for longer. And those removals are the ones that highlighted the difference in moderation values and expectations.
Layers are the thing I hate about the cold
I'd rather be blistering hot than wrapped up in layers and living inside stuffy heated buildings
I wonder the same thing about people who live in cold environments. I've never seen snow, and I know I won't handle it, because I can't handle single digit (Celsius) temperatures, let alone below 0...
I don't think it's the answer as such, but I think the answer is on the page for that product, which is to say my existing bras probably aren't supportive enough. That product only works with high support bras, which mine aren't...
In response to other people in the community asking her about it, moss has said that if she hands the community over to anyone, that she will hand it over to me. But as the community owner, that's up to her, not me. I also don't particularly want it. I run blahaj zone with Kaity to provide spaces for queer communities to exist and have their interests put front and center. But where possible, I try not to run those individual communities, because down that path lies burnout.
I don't want to be in a situation where I have to decide the future of a community that I wasn't heavily involved in. The people that make up the community are welcome here though, whatever form that takes.
I very much don't want to get involved in day to day moderating of the community, but I do watch over all reports that come through for blahaj communities, and I will deal with the spammers/bigots etc as well.
I am not going to take a community off of people who haven't broken any instance rules. Mods need to have confidence that the communities they run aren't going to be arbitrarily taken away from them because of an issue with an instance admin.
Unless I have the go-ahead from the staff, or unless they go dark long term and can't be contacted, I won't take it from them.
But, I did create a new post in the old community pointing people at a community made alternative, because I am also not going to force people to move.
I'm not going to forcefully hijack 196, but if the community creates an alternative, I'm happy to let people know about it
Pied Stilts wading in the Kedron Brook Wetlands Reserve, Brisbane Australia, October 2023
Pied Stilts wading in the Kedron Brook Wetlands Reserve, Brisbane Australia, October 2023
Sulphur-crested cockatoo with beak and feather disease, Pallamallawa New South Wales Australia, 2009
