Who says flowers are only for girls, boys can like and wear flowers too.

Not really bit I anticipate more growth in the future and it’s better to have a big moderation team so this community isn’t left wide open to attacks.

Well feel free to apply if you’d like to help out. Right now the need for mods is significantly greater than the amount applying.

I’d agree with you but the mods of this community have shown considerably more professionalism and don’t have a history of abusing power. Which is more than I can say about mods in lemmy.world’s biggest communities.

I also trust them to moderate against bigotry and hate speech effectively. Which is important because 196 is supposed to be a queer friendly safe space.

Also how to easily make furry friends.

I don’t personally think so. They are getting priority, but I will still accept other people onto the team. The main reason I’m inviting them is because this community is intended as a complementary or sibling community to the main one ǃ196@lemmy.blahaj.zone which is more general, while this one is still general but centered around a specific topic/niche. I’m not too worried about interference, or them preventing us from even though we’ll have a shared team, since it is clear our communities are similar but still different. Plus simply by virtue of being on a different instance and being mostly furry related this place already has a different and unique identity than the original one.

I was thinking they could add one to the main 196 matrix space. I’m not an admin of that space though so they would need to create a room there. Then it would be joined with the other 196 channels. Though if not I guess I could make my own furry 196 space. I like the idea of our chats being together in the same space though.

Alright I’ve added you as a mod. I agree that we should have some communication between spaces. Maybe a dedicated room on the Matrix for the furry version of it.

furry_irl’s memes are specifically furry fandom targeted, whereas this 196 community accepts more general memes that are tangentially furry related, in additon to furry targeted memes like furry_irl’s.

Examples of that include:

• Memes featuring animal characters
• Memes featuring anime characterswith animal features
• Memes featuring animals in general

It’s similar to furry_irl but the topic is more broad.

Looks pretty real to me.

Not too sure, would make sense if the speech bubble to be centered so it would seem like it was coming from his mouth and not his eye.

I have just opened mod applications on the community, mods from there are encouraged to join and will even get priority over other users who apply.

Yeah looking at their post and modlog history I’m thinking it was a mistake on my part to grant them an unban. Acted way too quickly without considering their history. Which is pretty bad all things considered, I thought maybe I had made a mistake but it seems my only mistake was not explaining their ban better in the first place.

Agreed, it also makes things very problematic when people come in and start using them unironically as well. Really unless people are going to reclaim dogwhistles or otherwise harmful terms, they just shouldn’t be using them at all.

Yeah it was a mistake, I initially though they were a troll because cultural Marxism is a common right wing talking point, and the fact that they were assuming or implying that me and OP were that or tankies simply for having it in the meme, clearly depicted in a negative manner I should add, it seemed less than good faith to say the least. Since it’s clear they meant no ill intent, at least this time I have removed their ban.

Also as to why the removal doesn’t show, that’s a quirk of the Lemmy software and how it handles ban with content removal. It’s a bug and it really needs to be fixed ASAP.

The icon was made by the same artist who designed the one from the other community, and unless someone designs something better or similarly high quality, it won’t be changed. I do intend to invite more moderators in the future but have not gotten around to it yet. If anyone from that community would like to help moderate this one I’d be happy to add them though.

Hi, I’m the original mod who banned you for that, your original comment seemed to come across as trolling because as other commenters have pointed out “cultural Marxism” specifically is a right-wing conspiracy theory, and also the immediate implication that me or the OP are tankies from what is ultimately a silly meme in a shitposting community felt uncharitable. Since it seems like I made a mistake and you didn’t mean any harm I’ll go ahead and unban you from the community.

Edit: Upon more consideration, I have decided to reverse this descision, this is both because of evidence sent in by another user, as well as me being prompted to check their modlog, and yeah… it is awful… PSA to all mods out there, check a person’s modlog before granting appeals, everyone has modlog history, but you can tell a lot about them as a person including their intents from that history. Especially from the contents of removed comments.

You just make a new post there but instead of reuploading the picture you use the existing link in this post:

Just copy this one (in case you can’t copy the one in the post from the app) and when making a new post just paste in that link. https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/873d2422-04da-496b-b727-debc821747e7.webp