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should locking and forced "merger" of communities be allowed? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world to c/general@lemmy.world
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The !android@lemmy.world 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 !android@lemmy.world 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 !android@lemmy.world because they did NOT want to be moderated by the old Reddit mods.

!android@lemmy.world 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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[-] RaincoatsGeorge@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 years ago

Seems to me the answer is that if you disagree with it you can start your own instance. I think the deciding factor is simply which one becomes popular. I’d imagine this would certainly give them the advantage but it wasn’t uncommon on reddit for communities to revolt and create their own subreddits to take back control from some power tripping mod.

I do think that one of the unique challenges here is that instead of one subreddit that everyone goes to,you’re naturally going to get 2 3 or 10 instances of a popular topic like news or pics. That could be good to offer lots of different places to find similar content. Or it could be bad where the community becomes fractured and there’s less content getting generated in any one instance.

I don’t know the answer but it does seem to be a unique challenge.

[-] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Seems to me the answer is that if you disagree with it you can start your own instance.

We're talking about the forced closure by two mods of this instance's community which has almost 19k subscribers who were very active and weren't even asked their opinion on this. This shouldn't be allowed, the mods are free to leave but they cannot force a merger by closing this community and preventing anyone to post.

[-] beefbaby182@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

I think the deciding factor is simply which one becomes popular.

This is the way. Competition in the marketplace is actually a good thing because it generates new ideas.

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