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Ugh. I thought this whole thing seemed fishy. It was way too quick of a pivot from the lemmy.world Android mods being upset about the new /c barging in and trying to hoover away their members... to them happily handing everything over and closing the doors.
Just goes to show how insidious the behind-the-scenes of Reddit mod drama really is/was. And a shame that it's just getting dragged over to Lemmy.
What changed their stance is that they were offered mod positions on the new instance (all of this is public). But anyway, whatever the motives are, and whatever happened behind the scenes during their private Matrix chat, it still stands that there is no merger. 19k users are being treated as transferable goods and are being denied a say in this. There is a hostile takeover taking place and we are seeking to abort it.
My point was just to not quickly consider !android@lemmy.world "merging" with the Reddit mods' community as a given fact, it's a falsehood that is being propagated by the Reddit mods.
If people are this quick to cede to Reddit mods now, just imagine how this all plays out if Reddit federates to Lemmy. And people think this Threads drama is bad...
Every Reddit /r becomes a Lemmy /c, and I guess we need to let them be the boss now?
Reddit isn’t setup to federate, it’d require a lot of backend overhauling that they can’t afford.
I probably agree. It's also unlikely, given that the entire reason many of us are here is that Reddit didn't want anyone having ad-free access to their site.
Unless, they only did it for the express reason to eat Lemmy, then slink back into their hole. I think Lemmy is much more EEE-susceptible than Mastodon.