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!