Edit: Update: community is created, !dataisbeautiful@mander.xyz !

Edit: Update: posted to !mander@mander.xyz for their feedback: https://reddthat.com/post/20241853

Hello everyone,

The most current active community is !dataisbeautiful@lemmy.ml.

Due to all the discussions that are now happening on !fediverse@lemmy.world about moving away from lemmy.ml due to their abuse moderation practices (https://feddit.nl/post/16246531), should we consider creating an alternative.

!dataisbeautiful@lemmy.world exists but seems unmanaged and I would rather avoid another LW community.

Maybe we could contact mander.xyz at !mander@mander.xyz to see what they think?

  • @ElCanutEnglish
    2•5 days ago

    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

    • @Blaze@reddthat.comOPEnglish
      2•5 days ago

      Hello,

      Thank you for your comment!

      @otter@lemmy.ca is a mod on !dataisbeautiful@lemmy.ml, so we might even close it so that people will be encouraged to move to the new community.

      About mander.xyz, they have been quite active lately to upgrade their instance (https://jlai.lu/post/7842647?scrollToComments=true).

      I had a look at the modlog of their “flagship” community, !science@mander.xyz, everything seems reasonable: https://mander.xyz/modlog/11072

      • @ElCanutEnglish
        1•4 days ago

        Modlog is a limited way of knowing the admins values. I really hope one day we’ll have cooperative owned servers, but in the meantime we can only speculate and hope the admins will behave reliably

        • @Blaze@reddthat.comOPEnglish
          1•4 days ago

          Indeed, but it seems that nowadays people are comfortable calling out power tripping admins, so as nothing has been reported about mander.xyz, they seem fine

      • OtterEnglish
        2•5 days ago

        Yes I’ll see about pinning a message next time I’m on Desktop, to redirect anyone that is looking there.

        Looking through the recent posts, the old community wasn’t getting that many new posts already

    • @Blaze@reddthat.comOPEnglish
      1•5 days ago

      PS: The new community has 1.75k weekly active users after 3 days, so hopefully is will catch-up with the lemmy.ml 2.54k monthly active users soon.