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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1119656

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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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Not much sleep, but thanks for this! I might reach out to pick your brain on a few things GDPR related at some point, if that's alright with you.

[โ€“] trouser_mouse 1 points 1 year ago

Sure thing, although I am by no means an expert at all (companies often have people who specialise in GDPR compliance).

A good reference point is https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-resources/ and https://gdpr.eu/ including their checklist.

The full regulation text is https://gdpr-info.eu/.