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admin for berries, dm me if you need help! #berrymods

it seems like the admin of nomoresha.me is trying to convince people to move over there--i just want to warn people, especially minors, from berries that it isn't going to be a safe or good experience for you. the rules are supposedly ironic, but they allow TERFs and "loli as long as it's not lewd" and don't do anything to shut down the harassers on the instance, most of whom are friends with the admin. xeno has even been trying to convince minors from here to join from their witches alt.

we've had them blocked for a while, for very good reason. stay safe.

Hey everyone, reminder for those who missed it that berries.space will be shutting down within the next couple of weeks or so! There's a doc explaining in more detail with some suggestions of places to move to here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DOIiLAc_h6NjwVZEaMsaanlOzKFOqS3TRXW0ywLsPnE/edit?usp=sharing
And the original announcement thread is here: https://berries.space/web/statuses/102039481992171305
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Admin/mod statements berries began as a fun little project as a cozy platform. over this past half year, we have seen much together; the fun, the friendships made, the jokes. unfortunately, running berries was and always has been a stressful job that was taking its toll on us, the staff. what wa...

@Hyggend its been there for like a day now and we couldnt suspend without proof lmao

couple of things:

i've seen some people asking about midnight.dance! i made midnight as a small personal instance and i'm still feeling out how big i want it to be, so for right now invites are closed for the foreseeable future.

also, i want to apologize for the confusion with mass DMs from other mods. that's something i shouldve shut down, and it's on me. i invited some friends there, including the other mods, when i set it up. i've been all over the place and i wasn't clear enough that people shouldn't officially migrate until after we had cleared things up here. people got excited and sent those out without thinking and it caused a lot of stress for you all, and im sincerely sorry.

again this has like, nothing to do with berries shutting down, but since it keeps coming up: proof that we did send a suspension email to seth/glassandeyes. sometimes emails from mastodon get caught by spam filters, so it's entirely possible it didn't go through, but on our end it was sent.
honestly this is something we shouldve done a while ago, like, a couple months ago, but we knew how important berries was to all of you so we did our best to keep it up as long as possible. the instance got too large for us to handle too fast, and when hazel left it was kind of a scramble for the rest of us to pick it back up and run something we weren't the ones to set up.
thank you all for sticking with us, and i'm sorry for the stress this is causing!
@norikawa we aren't set to shut it down in a week, we'll leave it up as long as necessary
@Laughwhilecrying It won't be for at least another week, and if people need more time we'll leave it up as long as they need!
To help make the move as smooth as possible, we'll keep the site up for a while longer, and there's a list of recommended instances in the attached doc. If you're interested in trying to set up your own instance, we highly recommend trying it out if you have the funds and a bit of coding experience! You're always welcome to ask one of us for help setting up, and Berries' rules, themes and blocklist are open source (linked in the doc as well).