Comment on Community creation question
skaffi@infosec.pub 2 months ago
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 @jerry@infosec.pub or @shellsharks@infosec.pub 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!
Natanael@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Just checked who the existing mod is, and I recognize the handle @SqueamishOssifrage@infosec.pub 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 🤷
jerry@infosec.pub 2 months ago
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.
skaffi@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Awesome, thanks jerry!
Welcome to the party @Natanael@infosec.pub - glad you want to take care of !crypto@infosec.pub! I hope you’ll be able to convince a decent chunk of your community to come with. :)
Perhaps look into finding a decent cross-post tool, and start cross-posting any posts made on /r/crypto to /c/crypto. Well, I suppose you should give OP a short amount of time to also post here, in case they already have an account, but otherwise, you should do it. No one will migrate, or start being active here, if there isn’t already some activity.
Natanael@infosec.pub 1 month ago
I’ll see what I can do. Don’t have hosting ready for anything automated though.
Natanael@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Fine by me if you prefer it that way
jerry@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Sounds like a plan. Just let me know