I have previously asked the community about how they feel about the scope of Mander, and I see that the communitie’s views are mostly aligned with what I want on this.

I want to keep a focus of the instance on discussing specific science and nature topics. I have seen several posts made to “Science” and “Science Communication” that touch on issues that are in a sense related to science but not really a direct scientific or nature-related topic. These are posts often concerned with social topics like the spread of “fake news” or the media mis-representing things.

These are not within the scope, and they are better suited for communities in other instances.

I have not taken many actions yet because I need to work more on the policy, but I can tell you that I’m not really so much in favor of building communities centered around non-specific popular topics that have a high probability of triggering polarizing discussions that are not even focusing on science. Even if most people like to discuss these, myself included, it’s simply not the concept of Mander. Being so popular and engaging, consider that those posts would easily be able to dominate the “Local” view and hide the actual science-centered niche discussions.