Hi all!
On reddit I’m the main moderator for a cryptography subreddit, https://www.reddit.com/r/crypto and I’m considering migrating it.
There’s a few cryptography subreddits (one named cryptography which is the main option), the main difference with the one I run is we’re a bit stricter about being on topic and thus maintaining higher quality discussions (in part because we’re under a heavy flood of spam bots, so we need to filter strictly). We got plenty of people over there who are professional cryptographers
I see there’s also a cryptography forum on this instance, but it’s very scattered and doesn’t really have very high quality posts. I wouldn’t want to just take over an existing forum here, if I move the reddit community I’d like to recreate /r/crypto as a new forum here and establish it with all the same rules, etc.
Is there interest from the admins for that here? And how dedicated are the admins to maintaining this instance in the long term? (I don’t want to have to move the forum multiple times)
And how much interest is there from the lemmy community?
(sidenote - this time around I’d handle moderation from a separate account, not from my main)
Just checked who the existing mod is, and I recognize the handle @[email protected] from reddit (although they haven’t been active in either place recently)
Like I said, wouldn’t just want to suddenly kick out existing mods, although they don’t seem to be around so 🤷
As far as I can tell, @SqueamishOssifrage hasn’t logged in to the site for about 2 years, and to be honest, I’d rather have a the community moderated, so if you want, I’ll add you as a moderator.
Fine by me if you prefer it that way
Keep in mind I’ll still rather have a separate moderator account, would need to set one up. It’s so annoying with shared personal and moderator DM, etc
Sounds like a plan. Just let me know