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)

  • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
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    21 days ago

    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

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      21 days ago

      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

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    21 days ago

    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!

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    7 days 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!

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      7 days 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 🤷

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        6 days 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.

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          5 days 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.

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            5 days ago

            I’ll see what I can do. Don’t have hosting ready for anything automated though.

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          6 days 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

          • jerryMA
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            6 days ago

            Sounds like a plan. Just let me know

            • NatanaelOP
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              6 days ago

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

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                6 days ago

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

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                  6 days ago

                  Just to clarify - post with your moderator account.