Hi! I’m the admin over at fanaticus.social. We’re a sports-only instance. We already host some of the biggest baseball communities on lemmy.
I wanted to open a dialogue about consolidating our two communities into [email protected]. It seems we’ve duplicated some work on the game bots and have a lot of similar content.
I propose that the mods of this community migrate to the birds community on fanaticus and mod there instead and make this community private.
One benefit of focused instances (like fanaticus) is that we can sort of insulate ourselves from de-federation conflicts amongst the larger, user-focused instances. If anyone was around for the beehaw.org defederation from lemmy.world you know that one of the biggest instances can no longer interact with lemmy.world users. That includes any fellow orioles fans that might be left behind over there.
On fanaticus.social all we talk about is sports. It’s a non-controversial topic (most of the time) and because we’re focused on that one topic, we’re not likely to be defederated by anyone. Users from all the instances like beehaw, lemmy.world, sh.itjust.works, can still interact with and create content for their favorite teams and sports without worrying about losing access to the communities they’re a part of.
Now, I’m not trying to steal anyone’s communities or be an uber-mod or anything nefarious. I’m also not proposing anyone switch their home instance to fanaticus. What I’m saying is that I believe it would be best for the health of the sports communities, especially in their infancy, to separate themselves from the general instances where they risk defederation, and consolidate to a content-focused sports instance like fanaticus.
Let me know your thoughts!
Definitely. We’re in a phase now where only tech-savvy users are here but that should taper off.
What would consolidation look like? Just making lemmy.world/c/baltimore_orioles mod-only and putting up a sticky directing users to fanaticus?
That is what I was imagining, yes. Additionally, the mods from lemmy.world/c/baltimore_orioles would be modded on fanaticus.social/c/orioles. If they want to, of course.
Maybe also you can join forces with us on our game bot 😉 but only because yours looks great and I know you’ll overtake us soon enough 😁
Is the code up online? I remember seeing one GDT bot somewhere that was an absolute industrial-scale monster, handling multiple sports and output to reddit, discord, etc. Mine is a toy in comparison. It’s mainly because I need a project and it’s good to show GitHub activity. I’m not sure how much to commit to it now.
No worries! Any contribution is welcome! There’s plenty of work to do, even small contributions are appreciated.
We forked the redball bots and are working with the maintainer to eventually create a PR back into his repo. You can find our fork here. There are bots for each sport but at least they’re separate. It’s got a GUI that allows you to configure each bot.
We’re discussing our dev on the lemmy channel of the redball discord.
Yup - that’s the one. I’ll take a look and see if any of the open issues look tractable to me.