We have received numerous reports from users about the closure of the c/android community. While we fully support the original community owners’ decision to move to another instance, it will eventually be necessary to open up the community on Lemmy.world. The beauty of the fediverse is that multiple communities on the same subject can exist in different instances. However, if you can no longer moderate a community on Lemmy for any reason, it is important to pass it on to individuals who are willing and able to do so.
To ensure the best interests of our instance members, it is necessary to establish boundaries. Holding onto a community name cannot be a permanent arrangement. It’s important to consider our users’ ongoing interest in the community if they wish it to continue. While we acknowledge the objective of consolidating communities, current community members ultimately decide whether they wish to join the new community at lemdro.id.
To ensure a smooth transition, we will keep the community locked for another week, providing ample time to inform the active user base about the move to the new instance at https://lemmy.world/c/android@lemdro.id.
There were only two mods, if you’re right, and considering the community didn’t stay open tells me that either it was unanimous between the two of them or one of them was inactive.
I don’t even think what they did was the right way to go about it, but you’re just trying to pin these random internet strangers with all sorts of shit for no reason other than to incite what’s basically a flamewar.
Also only the creator can close a community on a Lemmy instance, and he said himself that he made the decision alone. The other mod was obviously onboard since he followed him to the new community, but seemingly only after the fact as he was clearly unaware since a few hours before the announcement he tried to create some activity with sticky threads on c/android.
And even if the two made the decision together, again false by the words of the community creator himself, that doesn’t make it any more legitimate, which is why I’m calling this “oh but it’s two instead of one” argument grasping at straws.