There is an issue between the mods and the admin. There is NOT an issue between the vast majority of the users and the admin. The mods decided to solve their issues by moving all the users to a different instance.

Now, there’s a ton of additional problems. The .world admins apparently promised the 196 mods that they wouldn’t be heavyhanded less than a week after the .world admins released a public statement that mods who didn’t obey the new rules would be made to obey (and then we’re forced to walk that back after massive backlash).

There’s also a problem that the problem the mods have with the admin, is mostly caused by the mods not keeping up with the instance mod-queue, forcing the admin to step in. The mods then cry that the admin is doing work “in their community”.

There is the additional problem that many of the community members are on 196 specifically BECAUSE it’s LBH.

And of course, the mods said they’d been working on this for months, and yet were completely unaware of all the issues this would cause due to federation.

Edit: oh, AND the mods decided that they wanted to ALSO squat on the original community instead of letting someone take over and keeping the entire community. They used the excuse of wanting to prevent “splintering”. Users saw this, understandably, as the mods claiming ownership over the user base.

In short: mods thought they owned the community, instead of, you know, the community. The solution here would have been for the mods to move, but they didn’t want to. I’ll leave it to the reader why that is, but one might quickly assume they’re a bunch of entitled idiots on a power trip, instead of janitors who want to maintain a community