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@[email protected] if you're interested we could just make a new community if the old one isn't going to be opened, I'd be down to mod it.
I prefer to not let Reddit mods set the precedent that they can extinguish a community over which they don't have ownership through schemes like these. If you're interested (and anyone else!) in moderating c/android right now we can contact the admins to reopen that community. Parking community names and in particular here depriving the instance of the c/android name shouldn't be allowed.
Agreed!
Open smaller ones on a few different instances? Who cares if our KBin instance has 300 subs
I'm not entirely sold on the feasibility of having to find 30 different /c/, /m/, /r/ android instances all with 300 subs.
Discoverability? How much overlap ends up happening? And the main issue from these stems from user responsiveness. If there's only 300 subs of viewers who want to ask questions who is answering them?
How many help subreddits did we see just end up a ghost town of 1 to 2 users answering? And how many regular subs still get flooded with the same questions?
I think there are some merits to it. I think it makes sense for regional instances to have their version of Android, be it for in language discussions or locales, but much beyond that I worry about the idea of multiple smaller instances. The few I've come across so far like this are just empty. Without one space for a community to be fostered those people will just find a different space. Which is fine, but again not exactly healthy for fostering a community.
I'm curious to hear others thoughts though, I'm certainly not against the idea. I just worry about it becoming cumbersome, repetitive, and ultimately failing at growing.