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What they should have done is even easier: leave and make their own community. Thats what the Fediverse is about.

...impose rules that would never pass a basic yes/no poll...

I generally agree with your comment, but I wanted to point out that the tyranny of the majority can still be a major issue. For example, there are often times when a majority of people believe the opposite of what a small number of experts agree is the best course of action. You can see this in laws that suppress trans rights receiving wider public support, even when they go against medical best practices.

It reminds me of so many subreddits where overactive mods decide they know what’s best for their subreddit and impose rules that would never pass a basic yes/no poll

I’ve been a moderator of a subreddit and had to deal with people complaining about rules that were, in fact, voted in by a poll stickied for a month.

100% agreed. It just reeks of mods thinking they own and know what's best for the community, further exacerbated by comments like this one. They think they are the community, or at least are the reason it thrives.

Mods are supposed to be janitors (not an insult, just statement of fact), but too often act with the presumed arrogance of “leaders”.

Yes exactly. I have no stake in the 169 thing, but this applies universally. We don't need you to remove comments that "don't contribute to the discussion". We don't need to hear whether you think someone is "participating in bad faith" (the fuck does that even mean!?). We need you to remove spam and rule-breaking content, and ban repeat offenders. That's literally it. We can put up with some bullshit because after all mods are unpaid volunteers who don't owe anything to anyone, but at some point enough is enough.

there was a new 196 created, however it states it will be deleted if the original is opened back up. the mods did open up the original 196, but people seem to want the mods replaced so the replacement 196 has not been deleted yet

196 mods were using lemmy.world accounts, not blahaj.zone accounts so due to issues with federation sometimes reports would not be dealt with for days, ada the instance admin would take care of some of these reports, however the 196 mods disagreed with some of the decisions she made. they decided to move the community to lemmy.world, by locking the original community and linking the new one, for various reasons people were upset. some people were defederated by default, some didnt want to go on lemmy.world servers or had their instanced blocked, and some many didnt like how the mods handled the situation in general during the whole ordeal.

Differences in moderation practices. See the pinned thread for a full explanation, because despite Erotador's confidence in speaking for us, the federation issues had nothing to do with our differences.