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 !mariners@fanaticus.social. We’ve been hard at work on our game bots but are missing the content and users that make this community fun.
I propose that the mods of this community migrate to the mariners community on fanaticus and mod there instead and make this community private with a pinned post directing users to your new home on fanaticus (see this community as an example).
The major benefits I see in this arrangement are:
- Allows new users (esp. non-technical users) to find their sports communities easier
- Protects users from losing access to their favorite sports/teams’ communities due to de-federation conflicts (e.g. beehaw vs lemmy.world)
- Allows bot developers and content-creators to more easily collaborate and create content for our communities
Finally, I just want to be clear that 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 consolidate to a topic-specific sports instance like fanaticus.
Let me know your thoughts!
What kinda infrastructure is supporting your instance? Is this running on a Raspberry Pi in a basement?
😂 no not quite. A dedicated 4 core vCPU w/ 8GB of RAM hosted on DO for the main server and a smaller server for game bots and maintenance tasks. Plenty of room to grow!
Looking to move towards a object storage for pict-rs but wanted to wait until the 0.18.1 upgrade first.
Are you the only Admin? I am not a mariners fan but just stumbled in from All. I did join in my teams communities though. Hopefully some of these sports groups take off.
I am currently, yes. I’ll have to talk to @ruud@lemmy.world. I’m not sure how he went about recruiting an admin team. Seems like a tough thing to do over the internet.