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should locking and forced "merger" of communities be allowed? (self.general)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by AlmightySnoo to c/general
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The [email protected] community on this instance thrived for a while and reached almost 19k subscribers very rapidly and it was very active.

Recently the Reddit mods of r/Android created another community with a few hundred members on another different instance where they are mods and that one was then astroturfed on c/android by a person seemingly unrelated to that community's mods.

Apparently some discussions then took place between owners of both communities and the mods of [email protected] community then unilaterally closed the community, thus, according to their own sticky notice, succumbing to the flawed reasoning that the Reddit mods are "more experienced" and therefore the rightful representatives of an Android community.

I find this behavior sad and it just shouldn't be allowed here for two reasons:

  • this sets the precedent for more Reddit mods to just come and claim "ownership" of communities by bullying existing ones into closing;
  • does not respect the almost 19k subscribers who didn't even have a say in this, and especially those who had already expressed that they joined [email protected] because they did NOT want to be moderated by the old Reddit mods.

[email protected] needs to be reopened now and the mods removed since they expressed that they no longer want to moderate a community on lemmy.world.

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[–] AlmightySnoo 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

and those mods have the right to leave [email protected] but not close it down for the 19k subscribers

[–] BradleyUffner 8 points 1 year ago

If the mods don't have a right to close their own community, who does? The very presence of a button available to mods to lock it down suggests that they DO have the right to lock it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

but not close it down

Pretty sure they do. Make your own community if you want to run it your way.

[–] AlmightySnoo 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

No they don't, that's essentially the same as parking community names since they're depriving lemmy.world of the c/android community name and parking communities is not allowed at least here.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Then report to your instance admin and move on.

[–] mitchacho74 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The thing is, each instance isn't supposed to have their own of each community, like the goal is to have communities spread all over the fediverse. Lemmy.world not having a c/android isn't a bad thing, because you can always connect to any other one.

The parking community name is a good point if it is against the rules but I feel like that rule is just designed to do exactly what you're looking for, having a version of each community on lemmy.world, defeating the whole point of the fediverse.

Lemmy really needs to figure out a way to group many smaller instances of the same topic into one, like a multi-reddit feature. That way people can subscribe to a topic and it will combine all posts from the smaller android communities without having to create more and continue fragmenting it