Welcome back @TransComrade69@hexbear.net!!

Don't leave if you don't want to @CARCOSA@hexbear.net but leave if you do, being the face of an admin team or involved in these decisions is a lot of work and emotional effort on a good day, so do what's best for you first and foremost!

But if you're able to and want to come back, I think it's safe to say we all want you back <3

Edit: Goodbye TC69 it was nice to see you for the 3 times I saw your posts this time before you deleted your account :(

Carcosa is what I would consider a Rightly-Guided admin. They've always been responsive and judicious from everything that I've seen.

We've had controversial policy changes before, even larger ones than this and they're never easy.

Ultimately I accept the reasoning behind closing dәnk and drec; I think anyone who's that attached to them has probably been engaging with them to a level that can be characterized as mental self-harm. I was talking with a friend just yesterday about how sometimes it seems like we're constantly fixated on people whose opinions we will not change, and have this morbid commitment to locking ourselves in the dialectic of opposition. This is not just rent-free, this is a whole public housing project in our brains.

Give me one thousand cases of a misguided person who's half-right but stumbles into incorrect conclusions, before even one case of a wilfully ignorant, egotistic Australian college student trying to be edgy while having a 9-year-old's understanding of the world.

Also I do wish that other people across the lemmyverse would see this instance as a fierce bastion of altruism, like I do.

as always they did their best to herd the outdoor cats that are our userbase, mods, and their fellow admins. even when it's not smooth i always feel it comes from a good place and i hope they will reconsider the admin decision making stuff and remain involved because i think their ability to be as impartial as any of us can be along with their experience makes them indispensable to keeping the john kerry rock stacking past connected to wherever we're headed in the future in a somewhat cohesive way