The !android@lemmy.world community on this instance thrived for a while and reached almost 19k subscribers very rapidly and it was very active.

Recently the Reddit mods of r/Android created another community with a few hundred members on another different instance where they are mods and that one was then astroturfed on c/android by a person seemingly unrelated to that community’s mods.

Apparently some discussions then took place between owners of both communities and the mods of !android@lemmy.world community then unilaterally closed the community, thus, according to their own sticky notice, succumbing to the flawed reasoning that the Reddit mods are “more experienced” and therefore the rightful representatives of an Android community.

I find this behavior sad and it just shouldn’t be allowed here for two reasons:

  • this sets the precedent for more Reddit mods to just come and claim “ownership” of communities by bullying existing ones into closing;
  • does not respect the almost 19k subscribers who didn’t even have a say in this, and especially those who had already expressed that they joined !android@lemmy.world because they did NOT want to be moderated by the old Reddit mods.

!android@lemmy.world needs to be reopened now and the mods removed since they expressed that they no longer want to moderate a community on lemmy.world.

  • Vamp@lemmy.world
    278·
    1 year ago

    I made a post asking about this too because it seemed a bit insanely barbaric to punish the active users who don’t want to just move to another instance and solely want to use world.

    " “we’re keen to avoid unnecessary fragmentation for existing members and confusion for any newcomers.”

    ah yes because locking the entire community without anyone’s knowledge and consent first isn’t totally insane and like another certain platform we all left from."

    • Mitchacho74@lemmy.world
      142·
      1 year ago

      You can still access the other community on a different instance from world, you don’t need a different login or anything

    • lchapman@programming.dev
      124·
      1 year ago

      Why do so many repeat this falsehood? There is no concept of “moving to a new instance” for a user. This is not like old phpBB forums. Your account works everywhere.

    • sloonark@lemm.ee
      124·
      1 year ago

      The reason you were downvoted on your other post wasn’t because it was being “brigaded”. It was because you kept talking like they were trying to force you to move your account over to another instance, when that clearly isn’t the case. It would take a matter of seconds to subscribe to the other android community. One click.