bullying

We can disagree on the term but it was, and I still insist, essentially soft-bullying when they push bogus arguments like their instance "being better because of custom patches" and highlight that they are r/Android mods. It doesn't have to be openly malicious, in fact they were doing it while being cordial. That's still intimidation.

and I think it’s fair to give them a little time to try and get people to consolidate to where they wish

I disagree because it's also the 19k users' community as well and many never asked for any of this and are being interrupted from participating in it because of the whims of one single person. It should be reopened immediately and the former (because I don't recognize he has any claim anymore as he officially abandoned it) mod can promote his new community elsewhere just like everyone else does. No one owes them a "redirection pause" and that's inappropriate vis-a-vis the 19k members who are still being coerced to move elsewhere.

But it should also be the case that by abandoning the original community, they lost all claim to it, so anyone else who wants to should be free to claim it. I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s already the case, and if not, it should be.

That's the whole point, the mod in question and the other Reddit mod who's behind this move to forcibly extinguish [email protected] are preventing that, the community is still to this hour forcibly closed and forced to serve as a shameless redirection page.

(the "moderators" (which they aren't anymore since they lost any claim to this community) being 2 people out of almost 19k subscribers)

They have the audacity to argue for the legitimacy of them alone deciding to deprive 19k subscribers of the community and force [email protected] to remain a redirection page to the Reddit mods' instance to siphon off its 19k users by leaving them no choice but to move to the Reddit mods' new 3 days old community and that if we don't let them do this then it is "subverting moderator discretion" and being "like Reddit".

This sounds like it could potentially turn into something like Meta getting the upper hand over some community, by making sure a link to their instance's version of the community is posted on many of these kind of parked communites. And they realistically have the time, money, influence and people to make it happen, which worries me even more. They really could just bribe people if need be.

As long as we stay open about these kinds of approaches from large tech companies, we should be okay. But it will definitely come down to the strength of each individual community mod team.

Yes God

they made their decision

2 out of 19k people made the unilateral decision for those 19k to close the community in total disrespect of those users who were very active and kept the community alive. They also do NOT have the right to deprive this instance from the c/android community name, that is the SAME as community parking. They have the right to leave but they do NOT have the right to close it for everybody else.

Their work and the work of 18k other people that now have no say in the matter.

Personally speaking, I don't agree with hostile takeovers. but honestly I feel something should be done about it. it sets a potential precedent where communities in other instances can make ghost communities and just park the name. In a perfect world, the new mods should be someone who was active in the community and not some random person who requested it but, honestly that is a lot of work, and if the moderation team didn't bother to want to do that work, I wouldn't see it unfit to have the admin team make the decision, be it nuke the community, or reassign another mod or something. Honestly though it's their instance, if they see it fit they could just choose to do nothing but, I feel it would be best for the instance to not have parked communities, especially big name communities such as Android that people would want to have as a community, it hinders growth of the instance (not that this instance is in dire need of more growth but long term)

I would be all for an addition of some sort of "Dead Community" policy(if there isn't one already, but I have not seen it). It could be as simple as communities that are intending to park have so many days before the community gets purged, or it could have a similar system that Facebook, Discord, Reddit(although they abused this policy) and other sites have where it's handled on a case by case basis upon a request being brought up.

Me too, fuck it not like I'm doing anything else tbh lol