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Consolidating space communities? (self.fedigrow)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by threelonmusketeers to c/[email protected]
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We currently have quite a few:

Dead instances

Do each of these communities serve a distinct purpose? If not, should we consolidate some of them?

I think the ManderXYZ instance is a nice match for the topic, but I am interested to hear what others think.

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[–] threelonmusketeers 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

[email protected] moderators @[email protected] and @[email protected] are active.

Thoughts on consolidation, perhaps to [email protected]?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I would be good with that. The space communities could benefit from consolidation, they're active but spread out too much

I don't have a preference on which one to keep, both LW and mander.xyz seem like good choices

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Agreed. Consolidation would benefit the community and likely help it grow further. I don't know much about mander.xyz, but I'm not attached to LW.

I'd be happy to continue moderating if we migrate elsewhere.

Edit: I just noticed how small mander.xyz community is, 90/month vs 4k/month.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Edit: I just noticed how small mander.xyz community is, 90/month vs 4k/month.

Those numbers can change quickly, [email protected] went from a few dozens to 4k after consolidation

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Great to hear!

[–] threelonmusketeers 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Now that you are moderator in both, would you be able to do the following?

  1. Lock [email protected] by checking "Only moderators can post to this community"
  2. Create one final post on [email protected] announcing the consolidation to [email protected]
  3. Rename the community to "[Dormant] moved to [[email protected]](/c/[email protected])"
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thanks! Bitswap made the post, so we should be good to go now

[–] threelonmusketeers 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Awesome! Are you planning to copy the rules from the sidebar as well, or start from scratch?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I've prepped one here. @[email protected], how does this look? I simplified the rules somewhat by combining related rules. Also I don't think the astronomy picture of the day was working so I removed it and kept the link

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[–] threelonmusketeers 1 points 2 days ago

Sidebar and rules look good! Daily active users are trending upwards.

You might want to consider posting on [email protected] (as an "under new management" post) and on [email protected]. I'd recommend spacing out the posts by a few days to reach more people.

Also, any idea what happened to Bee? Sal added Bee as a mod, Bee added you and Bitswap as mods, but now Bee's account and comments have vanished.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah. Looks good. Thanks Otter!

One thing to think about is that recently we had a few requests to create a rule about quality sources. I was always torn about it. The post with links to bad sources/bad science brought out some of the highest engagement from the whole community and spurred some great educational dialogs.

I don't like the idea of keeping a disallowed list of sources. Nor do I like the idea of debating source quality.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I agree, at our current moderation capacity it would lead to inconsistent moderation and arguments about where the 'quality threshold' is

Encouraging people to post better quality sources through comments might be better than fully restricting the posts?