@Sal@mander.xyz, is this a community your instance might be interested in hosting?
I know you mostly have more serious communities, but you do have a couple more laid-back communities like !science_memes@mander.xyz.
I'm also kind of surprised that !askscience@mander.xyz isn't a thing.
Hi! I’ve looked through /r/shittyaskscience and I think it leans too far into jokes with very little actual science content. The idea behind mander is to support specific, niche science-related communities, so a general joke-focused community doesn't really fit.
For 'science_memes', the mod is a very capable superstar and I agree with their vision of memes as a laid-back way to connect people to science. It’s plausible that a community like 'shittyaskscience' could achieve something similar, but honestly I think science_memes already covers that space well.
As for !askscience - it simply hasn’t been created yet. It would be more fitting than 'shittyaskscience', but I still prefer encouraging people to ask lichen questions in the lichen community, mushroom questions in the mushroom community, chemistry questions in the chemistry community, and so on. I support content flowing toward niche communities rather than having a centralized place for general questions. A general community would be more popular, but popularity isn’t a goal, and it works against the underlying philosophy. Niche spaces may be smaller, but they offer much better signal-to-noise for building meaningful connections.
Makes sense. Thanks for your input, and for your excellent instance!
something like discuss.online, or lemmy.zip or lemmy.cafe?
Youd pair nicely with our shitty ask community