Due to multiple factors, such as unaddressed ableist removals from the /c/196 moderators, defense of chasers, no-quarter rules regarding our users, leakage of good-faith DMs from our admin team, and a general lack of initiative to punish these behaviors, we have come to the conclusion that the 196 community on lemmy.blahaj.zone has made the fediverse an unsafe space for our queer, disabled, neurodivergent, non-western, and other marginalized comrades on this forum, and we will be defederating from lemmy.blahaj.zone until we can be confident that this will not continue to be an issue.
We have attempted to make good-faith parley with both the instance admin and the comm moderators, but we've reached a point which we feel that until these behaviors are addressed by instance administration, we can no longer continue to federate in good-faith while our users are being actively invalidated by a small-but-vocal portion of the forum. Once we are confident that these behaviors have ceased and are unlikely to continue, we are more-than-happy to refederate in the name of queer solidarity.
Thanks for bearing with us :07:
Good riddance. 196 became a pit years ago. No quarter given to the chasers, ableists, and scratched libs who blew in under the wings of
. The greatest solace lies in the fact that these people do not and can not accomplish fucking anything material offline, meaning they essentially cease to exist the second you take the computer away from them.
What is the term or reason for the 196? why is that their identifier?
to my recollection, there was some dorm somewhere that was room 195, and they had their own subreddit where the rule was that you had to post something before you left. somehow it ended up breaking out into a broader space and getting viewed by way more people than had ever set foot in the dorm. the subreddit eventually died for some reason, and the users that were left made a new subreddit called 196, since it was the sequel to the last subreddit
the guy who created 195 graduated or something and wanted to stop being a reddit mod, so he made one final post saying "the experiment has now concluded" as if 195 was a uni experiment and permanently closed the sub lmao
o7 I hope they went to a better place, far away from all of this
🇨🇽 There's no touch grass emoji so here is the flag of christmas island, which has some green.