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)
I think you would be a most perfect fit here. I think a lot of people on this instance would be excited to have a vibrant crypto community here.
The crypto community we have here isn't so much "lower quality" as it is just dead. There's been just three posts there in the last year. I was going to suggest you ask the owner of it if you could take over, but it looks like they haven't been active for two years.
I think you should just ask @[email protected] or @[email protected] if you can take over. There's no reason to have two crypto communities, if one of them is dead; you get to keep your old identity of being called "crypto", instead of "cryptography", or something else; and there are presumably a lot of the subscribers of /c/crypto that would very much like to have an active crypto community show up in their feed.
Welcome to Lemmy, and to Infosec.pub - I hope to be able to say the same to your community!
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 🤷