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On protecting Mander's theme (mander.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago by goji@mander.xyz to c/mander@mander.xyz

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First off, this is immediately and by far my favourite instance. Thank you so much for creating it!

I'm still new to the "fediverse" in general, but with the current flood of newbies stumbling into every corner of it, I'm wondering if, for Mander, it might be a good idea to restrict creation of new communities to just the admin/s.

Mander's theme and tone are so unique, and I'd hate to see that diluted and buried. I'm just starting to see new local communities pop up that have nothing to do with nature or any type of science.

Just a thought of course. What you have here is fully worth protecting :)

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[–] Sal@mander.xyz 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

I am glad you like it! And thank you for the feedback.

I have not been very restrictive about the topics because I prioritize giving people a safe space in the fediverse to build their communities, even at the cost of some dilution. But, if the consensus that staying in focus is important, I am willing to enforce a more strict policy about the topics of communities - in that they at least have to be related to science/nature.

I would much rather not restrict the creation of communities to admin-only. I prefer people to be able to create the communities that they want. At this time the volume is low, so I can manually inspect the communities after-the-fact.

I still have not written a more detailed policy about the server. There were not many users, so that was a good excuse to procrastinate. It may be important that I actually set some time to write some ground rules - so thank you for helping me coming up with them.

[–] CuriousOtter@mander.xyz 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm very new to this community myself, but I love what is being created here. It would seem to me that this instance is focused more broadly on academics than just science/nature. I believe that's a good thing though, as it creates a wider array of interesting content.

The closest space on reddit that I might compare this community to would probably be the DepthHub. One example of the type of subs that they often link to includes r/AskHistorians, which has valuable content, but doesn't really fit here if there's a strict curation of science/nature content.

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