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].
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.