Feddit UK @feddit.uk Mex @feddit.uk 5 days ago

Thoughts on "land grabbed" communities?

So I was looking for a community to post a link to and I came accross:

https://feddit.uk/c/ukpersonalfinance

What are our thoughts on this, and do we have a way to release such communities if that's what's wanted?

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Can't allow this. Really bollocks way of trying to stop Reddit leaking..
This occurred before Emperor and I had Admin privileges.

If I recall correctly, someone from ukpf wanted to sit on the community until UKPF had to close.
At the time, I reacted to the situation as a regular user.
When we did finally have admin, I took a look at my own community I'd started on here (personalfinance), and reasoned that there really wasn't much demand, so shuttered it.

If people would like to run a personal finance community, they're welcome to.
Just make sure that you take care with it, and make sure all the usual "not financial advice" warnings are in place.
I've re-enabled personalfinance, but we'll need some more mods if people are going to use it.

And yea, I didn't realise there was a post leading off-site to a Discord.
Probably best that I let people weigh in before I take any hiding action.
- Had similar thought and hence the phrasing this post as a question. If we do make a decision we should probably codify it this instances rules so it's a more obvious choice going forwards.
- Edit: Sorry, thought that reply was to my comment. Will leave my 'lost reply' though lol
  
  If I came off harsh, lol, I didn't mean to. I'm not throwing out any judgement or even specifically talking about that community: just looking at it objectively at a high level. I've always taken issue with squatters staking claims just to do nothing but deny others the opportunity.
Yeahh this shouldn't be happening
So there is:

!ukpersonalfinance@feddit.uk - the land grabbed one

!personalfinance@feddit.uk - GA's one

!personalfinanceuk@feddit.uk - the one I've thrown the occasional post into and the most active.

I'm minded to remove the first - we don't want to encourage that kind of thing or link to a Discord channel we know nothing about.

We can then shutter GA's and carry on with the last one but, as GA has said, we need more Mods and some solid rules. I've just been using it for news. If people wanted to ask questions it's a different beast. Perhaps start "personal finance questions"?

Thoughts?
- I'm happy for mine to be re-shuttered.
Ooo yes please I'd love to have that community open again. Or another similarly named one. I have so many questions... 😅.
- There is another UK finance community that's open. I posted to that one instead.
So they created a Lemmy community only to refer you back to Reddit and also send you to their Discord?

On one hand, that's a shitty thing to do. On the other, it puts the admins in a tough spot (and almost seems like a trap). There was a lot of uproar during the Reddit protests about the admins taking over / handing over closed communities that went dark in protest. If the admins here do that in this case (or similar cases), I expect similar backlash.

That said, I'd be in favor of the admins transferring the Lemmy community to someone who would actually grow it.
- To your points
  
  This is not a community that they want to use, and have stated as such therefore removal is not a loss to them.
  
  If the admins take it and give it to other mods I see it as a gain to the community, because the current mods are being jerks and stopping other people using this server.
  
  I personally have no issue with admins taking groups off malicious mods. In the Reddit situation it was dumb that the mods honestly thought that going dark was going to work. If I decided to be a cunt on Feddit UK and register all available groups from aa to zzzzzzzzz so any group that hadn't been claimed was under my control, I have absolutely no expectation that the Admins wouldn't take it off me and give it to someone who wasn't being a complete twat. This is their server that they are being extremely lovely and allowing us to have a chat on, and while they are great people you cannot expect them to put up with everything.
- Totally different situation regarding admins. One was a community they built, this is a foreign land they stuck a flag down and declared theirs, and abandoned it.

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