It is indeed very solid, but my reasoning was more to highlight mander.xyz, which is science-focused.
They do a great work, and maybe having a "popular" community might help them (although that might already be happening with their science memes community)
Mander.xyz is a solid instance and I think this community would do well there. It would fit in nicely with the other communities on there, and it might get more posts as a result
Ultimately I'm happy with wherever people would like to go with that community :)
I'd suggest creating a new community somewhere that isn't lemmy.ml because of their moderation and lemmy.world because it's just too big and we shoukd spread out the communities a bit. But depending on how established is the community on LW then it would be better to stick to it.
+1 for mander.xyz. I'd also like to take this opportunity to see if @sal@mander.xyz would be interesting in joining me on https://fediverser.network, as it is one of the most interesting topic-based instances. It would be a great home to all the science-related subreddits and moderators that would be interested in migrating.
Yes, sorry, I remember looking at it in the past but got distracted. Is there somewhere where I can find information about what to do to join you and contribute? Should I create a reddit account?
The GitHub page would be the initial place to get started. It works as a separate service that needs to run alongside your Lemmy docker stack. You will need a reddit API key to allow users to login/register via Reddit.
I just advise to wait a bit because the current release is still working based on Lemmy 0.18.3 database schema. I will update it later this week.
@Beaver@lemmy.ca and @ElCanut@jlai.lu, you seem to be the most regular posters of this type of content, what to you think about this idea of a new initiative on mander.xyz?
My opinion about this is that the fediverse seems a bit quiet recently, and maybe it would be better to stay on an instance and accept their default rather than creating a new one.
But hey, fediverse also means decentralization, so it might be worth a shot, I'll try to post in both communities and see what happens.
Is there someplace where I could find more information about mander admins ? I don't want to have the same debate in 3 months because there is a problem with their moderation policy
As far as I'm aware the big issue with l.w is centralisation. So it makes sense to suggest people start new communities on other instances but if there is one already there, we might as well make use of it.
I did the same migration a few months ago, from @lemmy ml to !linguistics@mander.xyz. Frankly, I don't regret it; even being a smaller instance I've seen far more activity there, and I feel like the environment is safer to talk about certain topics. (The lemmy ml comm was a bit of a ticking bomb, really.)
Keep in mind that the focus of the dataisbeautiful comm might change a tiny bit, even if the rules stay the same. Older users already created an association between mander.xyz and science; I think that they'll be a bit less prone to post fluff, and more scientific data. That's actually good IMO.
Sorry I missed this, but, of course! I think that the dataisbeautiful community would be a good fit. I will try to deal with the federation issues as soon as possible.
Update: Mander are working on their federation issues (https://mander.xyz/post/14144123), so I would wait until they are done to create a community there
I'll see about pinning a message next time I'm on Desktop, to redirect anyone that is looking there. The old community wasn't getting that many new posts already