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I think it goes without saying that we don't want to import today's Reddit into the Fediverse. With that said, even Reddit today does not go as far as to force merge-locked subreddits open (although their bot has been known to mass message some normally locked subreddits).
Mike may have been a bit blunt in his response to you, likely in reaction to the accusatory tone of your post and comments here. I completely understand that you dislike Reddit moderators and that's fine. But it's worth keeping in mind that many folks have moved to the Fediverse over recent weeks because we disagree with the very ideas you're currently espousing - namely how Reddit has been trying to subvert moderator discretion over their communities by threatening/actioning replacements when decisions don't go their way.
It's insane how you don't see how you're trying to usurp a community of 19k users and make it seem as if it was a collective decision when it was not. It's insane that you Reddit mods are still not ashamed to have pulled this off.
How hard is it to understand?
YOU. ARE. NOT. THE. 19K. MEMBERS. OF. THE. COMMUNITY.
YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO DECIDE THAT WE AS A COMMUNITY ARE MOVING. IT WAS NEVER YOURS AND YOU HAVE NO CLAIM ON IT.
NO ONE EVER ASKED TO MOVE. However, YOU are free to leave and have fun with your new instance.
YOU DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT to close the community and prevent its 19k members from using it.
IT IS OUR COMMUNITY, NOT YOURS, AND WE WANT IT BACK.
You should be deeply ashamed of how you're still defending this.
This is what I meant by being too angry. For Christ's sake, it's been a few days and all that happened is a community was redirected to a different one.
I used to be this angry about Reddit, years ago, and looking back it was something I should not have invested so much hatred toward. Are you expecting to actually reach reconciliation with the involved parties or are you expecting for instance admins to side with you and override the opposition?
I am angry, you are right and I will stop interacting with the very person who forced this takeover and forced [email protected] to shamelessly become a redirection page, because usually nothing good comes out of interacting with people acting in bad faith since the start.
Whatever the parties involved advance, they acted in bad faith and reconciliation is not possible when they want this instance's community to die first and siphon off its users, and they still defend that they have the right to force this over the 19K subscribers who had no say in this. They call this "moderator discretion" and us simply being "out of luck". This is why a reconciliation is not possible.
The right course of action is to officially treat [email protected] as being abandoned by its mods, remove the "current" mods (who have no claim to the community anymore, since they themselves abandoned it and cannot act in its interest since they made it clear that their goal is to have only one main community over at the Reddit mods' instance) and then appoint new moderators. I even volunteer to do so, select new ones from that same community and maintain its activity.
The only way to solve this is for the community to be reopened again under new moderators. And the old mods and the Reddit mods can obviously pursue their own plans on their new instances.