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  • AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦@lemmy.world
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    Read the room, it’s not a “good move”, it’s a dick move against !android@lemmy.world mods who built this community when r/Android was radio silent about us and never helped, it’s disrespectful. It’s only now after they saw Redditors migrating to Lemmy that they thought they should join too, but only by launching a tiny duplicate community because it hurts their ego to let go of their mod positions and join an already established Android community. What adds insult to injury is that they come here and astroturf as if !android@lemmy.world doesn’t exist, hoping to absorb its users.

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      Yea, I mean, if you’re a mod, go apply to be one at the new community. I think a lot of new communities would welcome the experience the vet mods have.

      I modded a country sub and it’s not my business to tell the sub where to go and when to go. It’s their community, they make the decision themselves.

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        My impression of Reddit and Reddit mods was that everyone was inexperienced, childlike, and toxic. Lemmy, so far, seems like a more mature audience. I rather like the Reddit subreddits moving to their own community, separate from what has been created in Lemmy already. I do not wish to have the Reddit experience over here. I stopped using Reddit for a reason.

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      Can you explain what the controversy is about? So the /r/Android mods tried to start an Android community on the fediverse but other people got to them first? How are they astroturfing?

      • AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦@lemmy.world
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        • r/Android never mentioned Lemmy before when they could have made use of the blackout to introduce people to Lemmy;
        • never mentioned nor helped !android@lemmy.world, and instead preferred to launch a tiny community much later on with the exact same goals and content just so that they can preserve their imaginary mod “powers”;
        • waited until !android@lemmy.world grew sufficiently big and until the fear of missing out kicked in, and then decided to advertise inside this community for there being “finally” an Android community on the Fediverse, still completely gaslighting !android@lemmy.world here and on r/Android;
        • the low effort advertisement in OP’s post acting as if we’re not already on a much larger and well-established Android community:

        Android news, reviews, tips, and discussions about rooting, tutorials, and apps.

        General discussion about devices is welcome. Please direct technical support, upgrade questions, buy/sell, app recommendations, and carrier-related issues to other communities. Join Here: !android@lemdro.id https://lemdro.id/c/android

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          They still get to moderate /r/android. In the old times of discrete message board communities, there were various Android message board communities before everything started coalescing around Reddit. It’s impossible to have an opportunity to moderate every single community. If they want to create their own duplicate community, they are free to do so.

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              Eh, I can see that, but the whole point of the fediverse is to get away from centralization, right? I think it’s a good thing they are promoting their own instance on Lemmy. Only issue is that for right now at least - all of the instances look the same…

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                Again what we’re talking about here is mods who were radio silent about building backup communities on Lemmy since the Reddit blackout began, leaving users to figure shit out themselves on Lemmy. Reddit mods sit around and wait. After 3 weeks they see that Lemmy actually succeeded and many big communities got established. Reddit mods with their sense of entitlement then come here and say “okay peasants we appreciate what you did, now that you’re already on the lemmyverse come join us here where we still have our mod powers”.

                It has nothing to do with decentralization. It’s the disrespect that they’re openly showing.

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                  I mean… this sort of attitude you have is kind of self-defeating, no? Like let the /r/Android mods have their own community. These public spats make it confusing for end users. The fediverse doesn’t have to be one big happy family - people have freedom to associate with some communities and not others. Duplication is bound to happen in the early days of this fediverse thing.

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          Hey there, I just wanted to quickly mention that /r/Android mods didn’t make the submission here and we wouldn’t have! OP seems to have gotten that description from the !android@lemdro.id sidebar. In case you’re interested, I posted a bit more context above.