UPDATE, 2024/JAN/17: this address has been locked so mods only can post. Use the new one.
This comm is being moved to !linguistics@mander.xyz (Lemmy link) or /m/linguistics@mander.xyz (Kbin link). Same old topic, same old rules, same old mod. Different instance, focused on sciences. That's it.
A few additional points:
- Since the new instance only defederates other two instances, access shouldn't be a concern.
- I'll keep modding both addresses concurrently, until 19/February/2024 (August Schleicher's birthday), to give people enough time to migrate. In the meantime you can post in either but I'd like to ask users to use the !linguistics@mander.xyz address instead.
If you believe that it's worth keeping !linguistics@lemmy.ml as a separated community, and wishes to moderate it, please say so in this thread. Or wait until the migration is over and ask lemmy.ml admins, whichever you prefer.
Seems to be a big exodus from Lemmy.ml all of a sudden.
About time.
I'm out of the loop, anywhere I can read more about what's going on?
I can't say what final straw is driving this exodus of moderators. But lemmy.ml has had a consistent problem with admins repeatedly banning users who post anything political that does not align with their questionable "communist" interests, and supporting mods that further those interests.
I should know, after all they used obscure, unexplained "rule 1/2" violations to 14-day ban me about 4 separate times on my old instance for comments that I thought were fairly benign and civil, but did conveniently take an antiChina or antiRussia stance. (Check the modlog on lemmy.ml directly for empireOfLove@lemmy.one)
Just overall, it's run poorly and is falling into the same huge moderator powertrip that ruined Reddit. People should not be using it as a serious instance if possible.
You might even see this comment get removed and this account banned as well. That alone will tell you all you need to know about how .ml is run.
Thanks for the explanation!