So, back in January the mods of !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone announced they were packing up the community and moving to !196@lemmy.world. To assist in this, they closed !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone. For simplicity, I'm going to refer to them as the .world one and the .blahaj one.
Now, there were lots of other things they had done that were dick moves, but whats most important is the sheer entitlement of thinking you can just pick up a community and move it, like they own it or something. This pissed off the community here, so one guy created !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone. Within an hour, this community was more active than .blahaj had honestly ever been, and it has sustained a more subdued version of popularity since.
The mods quickly realized that they had shot themselves in the foot, and backtracked with an apology that read like "we are sorry that you peasants were mad about the completely justifiable decision we made, and we hope you feel better soon. Here's your emotional support sub back." This just pissed off the community more, and the more we found out about their actions behind the scenes the more pissed off we got. It was a real mask-off moment where we got to see how shitty the mod team was, not just to the community but also to Ada. Personally, the part where I decided to never come back was when they cited an accidental ban followed by a successful appeal as a bad thing that was also Ada's fault for some reason. Do they think they are above making mistakes? Or do they think they should just not ban trolls because they might hit innocent bystanders by accident? Either interpretation makes them look really bad to me.
So, the end result of this was that .blahaj's most active users were burned on the old mod team and hopped to this community. That's why there are three now.
