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r/Android is now on the Fediverse! (libreddit.domain.glass)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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: [email protected] https://lemdro.id/c/android

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

Read the room, it's not a "good move", it's a dick move against [[email protected]](/c/[email protected]) 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 [[email protected]](/c/[email protected]) doesn't exist, hoping to absorb its users.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (7 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)
  • r/Android never mentioned Lemmy before when they could have made use of the blackout to introduce people to Lemmy;
  • never mentioned nor helped [email protected], 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 [email protected] grew sufficiently big and until the fear of missing out kicked in to come, and then decided to advertise inside this community for there being "finally" an Android community on the Fediverse, still completely gaslighting [email protected] here and on r/Android;
  • the low effort advertisement in OP's post pretending that 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: [email protected] https://lemdro.id/c/android

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

they are free to do so

I never denied this, but the way it's done here is simply disrespectful to [email protected]'s mods and the early members who grew this community together while r/Android mods ignored them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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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