We have received numerous reports from users about the closure of the c/android community. While we fully support the original community owners’ decision to move to another instance, it will eventually be necessary to open up the community on Lemmy.world. The beauty of the fediverse is that multiple communities on the same subject can exist in different instances. However, if you can no longer moderate a community on Lemmy for any reason, it is important to pass it on to individuals who are willing and able to do so.
To ensure the best interests of our instance members, it is necessary to establish boundaries. Holding onto a community name cannot be a permanent arrangement. It’s important to consider our users’ ongoing interest in the community if they wish it to continue. While we acknowledge the objective of consolidating communities, current community members ultimately decide whether they wish to join the new community at lemdro.id.
To ensure a smooth transition, we will keep the community locked for another week, providing ample time to inform the active user base about the move to the new instance at https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected].
A subreddit can be uniquely identified like this
/r/games. Once that name is taken, no other sub can have it.A Lemmy community is identified like this: [email protected]. Notice it has a name part and a server part, both are necessary to uniquely identify the community. [email protected] is a different community with different mods and different posts/comments (unless someone crosspost, but then it’s still two different posts with mostly the same text inside). You can mostly access any community on any server from your account, mostly irrespective of what server your account is on.
But similarly named communities on different servers are different communities. They are analogous to /r/DnD vs /r/dndnext. Similar topic, different subs, same with those Lemmy communities.