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!
I guess I don’t see the point of consolidating. I like the fact that we’re not getting spammed by bot created game posts. Those are nice if you’ve got a large active community, but in these smaller groups it just pushes conversations and articles out of the feed. There’s room for both communities.
FWIW, those bots are totally customizable. The ideal scenario would include both the game bot (less spammy if ya’ll prefer it that way) and articles and conversations.