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)

  • NatanaelOPEnglish
    1·
    1 month ago

    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

    • jerryMAEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      Sounds like a plan. Just let me know

      • NatanaelOPEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        Just made a registration - same username over here as my moderator’s flair over on my reddit account, haha (trusted third party)

        • jerryMAEnglish
          1·
          1 month ago

          Thanks. Can you make a post in that community? It’s the only way I know of to make someone a moderator

          • jerryMAEnglish
            2·
            1 month ago

            Just to clarify - post with your moderator account.

            • NatanaelOPEnglish
              1·
              1 month ago

              Made a post

              https://infosec.pub/post/23658227

              No way from admin tooling to do it?

              Edit: I’m seeing strange differences in visible post history in the community between this account and the new account. The new account only shows a small subset of posts

              • jerryMAEnglish
                2·
                1 month ago

                Lemmy’s admin tooling is… basic

                • NatanaelOPEnglish
                  1·
                  1 month ago

                  So the new account only sees posts less than a year old, but this account (also on the very same host!) sees that plus older posts 🤷

                  Edit: ignore that, found the right settings. Weeeird

                • NatanaelOP
                  1·
                  1 month ago

                  Separate question, is there any automoderator equivalent around here?

                  • jerryMAEnglish
                    2·
                    1 month ago

                    I will install one today and send you the details