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 were only two mods, if you’re right, and considering the community didn’t stay open tells me that either it was unanimous between the two of them or one of them was inactive.
I don’t even think what they did was the right way to go about it, but you’re just trying to pin these random internet strangers with all sorts of shit for no reason other than to incite what’s basically a flamewar.
I’m simply correcting someone, who’s obviously involved in this Reddit power move, who to this day instead of reading the room in this comment section, still keeps spreading the lie that it was a popular move since their sticky thread was “widely upvoted” (obviously false) while omitting 1- the forced nature of the move, 2- that members weren’t given any other choice, 3- the ones likely to vote anyway are those who are in favor since members weren’t told that they could change anything by downvoting, and indeed in the one week and a half of the forces closure only about 400 members unsubscribed which coincides with the number of upvotes he’s seemingly proud of (as it is the second time he brings this argument up), and finally 4- all the critical comments with thousands of upvotes that he deleted on r/android.
Ah, so this is the sticking point. You know one (or multiple) of the moderators of the new community when they modded on Reddit and they are bad mods?
If this is true, lead with this and forget all the other stuff. This is the only thing that matters.
Are you serious? The guy tried for the second time to use upvotes, and obviously lied since that is clearly not “widely upvoted”, of a forced sticky thread to justify a forced move, so I’m merely calling him out on deleting r/android comments that were critical of their move to make a duplicate community since he’s the one to suggest that upvotes matter.
I don’t even know the mod, the comments were not deleted when they were made so I didn’t care that day. It is only after the forced closure that I went again to the thread where r/Android members called the mods out on their move to create a duplicate community and found that the highly upvotes ones, including mine (had more than 400 upvotes, since jeff is again suggesting that 400 is enough to call something “widely upvoted”) were all deleted.
Also only the creator can close a community on a Lemmy instance, and he said himself that he made the decision alone. The other mod was obviously onboard since he followed him to the new community, but seemingly only after the fact as he was clearly unaware since a few hours before the announcement he tried to create some activity with sticky threads on c/android.
And even if the two made the decision together, again false by the words of the community creator himself, that doesn’t make it any more legitimate, which is why I’m calling this “oh but it’s two instead of one” argument grasping at straws.
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You mean his statement, the community creator explicitly said himself that it was his decision alone. Whether it was in response to me or not doesn’t matter. Unless you’re saying he lied. It’s just too convenient to say “oh but he was just angry, he certainly didn’t mean it”. It’s consistent with the forced move itself.
I’m still calling your astroturf and your doubling-down on the same thread soft-bullying as the immediate effect it had was to trigger the mod’s imposter syndrome and feel not official enough, but it doesn’t matter what I call it and you obviously don’t like the words bullying or even soft-bullying, as whether they decide to fall victim of imposter syndrome or not is their right and it ultimately doesn’t matter. That’s the territory of “why”.
What matters here is the “what”. And what happened is one mod (or two since you seem to suggest that two instead of one makes things much less ugly) forcibly closed a community on lemmy.world.
it still stands that 1- your moderator forced a community to close, 2- you’re still lying about popular support, 3- you seem to suggest that 400 upvotes make your forced move legitimate, 4- you’re for the second time suggesting that lemmy.world admins are Spez-like since they are reopening the community which you shamelessly closed and they already removed your mods, and 5- you’re accusing me of trying to “take control” when you’re the one who in fact achieved that, in fact you’re clearly projecting.
Relating to the last point, yes I volunteered and I still volunteer to reopen c/android, but since you can’t think of any other motive than power I will also promise to leave (or not even join if I’m not needed) after recruiting a team of mods to keep c/android running again.
Unlike you, I don’t parrot “moderator discretion” or “look 400 guys upvoted us after two weeks of forcing that community to close and stickying a thread where the most likely ones to vote anyway are those in support of the move”, and unlike you I do not consider moderator status to be some power status, but apparently you do since you immediately assumed that I “wanted” to take control of the community. That’s false, I wanted to reopen a community that you shamelessly unilaterally closed. Whether the reopening is done by me or someone else doesn’t matter.