Mane25

Yes. I never claimed it was better than staying, I said right there "brexit was a bad idea but" - it was always going to be worse than staying but it didn't need to be the unmitigated disaster that it was - that was the government's fault.

How could Brexit have gone better? Open borders, customs union, staying in the single market.

It's also not best security practice to leave an inactive user with admin powers which still seems to be the case here.

Do we have to only do it one day a year?

Unfortunately, in case you're unfamiliar with UK politics, making life as miserable as possible is the whole government's thing at the moment and the majority don't support them. Please do not call us stupid fucks though, we are their victims, perhaps figure out how to send help, get us invaded, anything to get rid of them.

I don't want to say anything inflammatory since something terrible might have happened to Tom that we don't know - but it's definitely not OK to start a community like this, get everyone on-board and established, then fail to appoint admins and disappear without explanation (even if busy) leaving other people to pick up the pieces, unless there's a very good reason.

And to be honest I'm surprised I seem to be the only one saying that - maybe an explanation from him (if appropriate to share) would smooth things over. I was genuinely excited about the new instance as an opportunity for the UK communities on Lemmy to put a bad situation behind us and move on.

I already moved 25 days ago when it became clear it was abandoned. The decision is whether to come back, I hoped I would despite my small complaint, but your comment isn't exactly making me feel any warmer here...

Hmm, I have mixed feelings about this, honestly, I'm not going to grumble too much because I'm not the one putting in the work - but it felt like a bit of a let-down that all this happened in the first place, and it felt like a fresh start was needed to move on.

Thanks to all the people working on saving the day! I've taken a break from the instance for the time being because of the uncertainty but looking forward to, hopefully, joining you on wave 3.