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
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)
Wherever you end up in the fediverse we’ll be glad to have you. Looking forward to a great community. Thank you for the admin work you do!
To head off some heat I expect you’ll get, I think it’s worth mentioning this community proposed is focused on proper cryptography mathematics and techniques - not cryptocurrency.
It’s unfortunate ‘crypto’ has been completely hijacked in the public subconscious
Way ahead of you, our reddit forum mentions the difference in every single place we can put a custom text, definitely intending to do the same here
