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.