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:

1. Allows new users (esp. non-technical users) to find their sports communities easier
2. Protects users from losing access to their favorite sports/teams’ communities due to de-federation conflicts (e.g. beehaw vs lemmy.world)
3. 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!