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should locking and forced "merger" of communities be allowed? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (3 children)

personally I find the whole "duplicate" community thing a bit of a problem. New forums already struggle to maintain activity and this just compounds it by fragmenting them even further.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Same. Discoverability is awful across the platform. The fact that there’s multiple communities per topic with (what appears to be) the same names means a lot of confusion.

I’m still not sold on the fediverse because of this. Centralization is not evil, and the lack of it does hurt the platform imo.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It will get better when people get past the idea of a subreddit needing to exist on lemmy. I'm looking forward to more of the official creator type communities popping up. Those will be more "official" unlike android where anyone can make one and it doesn't matter much.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Trying to find math communities and looks like every instance have its own with less of a docent of users in each.