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].
There will be no community if defederation and decentralized communities continue to hamper growth and diversity in content.
I understand your defederation concerns. That is really what is going to cause problems. Last I checked behaw.org defederated from lemmy.world, that’s a genuine cause for concern. However I’m not worried about that long term.
I think Lemmy as a whole was just chilling and then a Reddit Exodus happened. If you owned an ice cream shop and suddenly school is cancelled you’re going to freak out a bit.
I think as things settle we’re all going to federate again. If we’re all alone then all of your initial concerns are completely valid. That isn’t to say that defederation is a bad thing. It makes sense sometimes. Even if different instances have different rules we have to share a general set of guidelines not to be a dick. Where that line is drawn is going to be complicated.
Luckily, most people are pretty cool. The loudest are usually assholes, but people as a whole are generally cool.
Decentralized however, that’s ok. That’s the crux of my argument. A hundred isolated communities isn’t going to work (at the current scale) but a few here and there is going to be fine. Shit Reddit did this all the time. Going back to I think one of my first posts I outlined how one community grew from a dissatisfaction from the existing community. The only real difference is that instead of changing from “gaming” to “games” they now change from “[email protected]” to “[email protected]”. It’s a couple extra characters, it’s not a big deal.