For those that don’t know, there is a sister community over on fanaticus.social/c/cfb that was also relatively empty in the first wave of users and as such we consolidated here as there were a few more active users. However given juan seems to be a phantom and the mods over there are active should we switch community posts back over there? They have a small mod team that’s active again and based on yesterday they seem to be willing to put some work into shaping the community. Again as this is the fediverse it doesn’t really matter since you can very easily sub to both but since we’re small I imagine a little bit of cohesiveness will help things like the c/cfb poll and weekly threads. Discuss
Edit: per discussion I will be moving my posts to !cfb@fanaticus.social (also !cfbmemes@lemmy.world) and cross posting them here for visibility
Hey all, I’m from the Fanaticus instance. Not going to try to persuade anyone to switch, just wanted to offer my thoughts:
I see advantages to both communities. The fact that there is a cfb community here on the “default” instance, so to speak, means it will probably be found by newbies to the fediverse. On the other hand, if it’s inactive or if lemmy.world is down (which was the case when I migrated to Lemmy), I don’t know how good user retention will be. What I like about the Fanaticus instance is because it’s only sports, threads are less likely to get downvoted or passed over by non-sports folks (which, let’s be frank, is the majority of Lemmy users). Plus, team communities can all be in one place.
It would be nice if both communities could coexist and grow. As you’ve noted, that requires active mods. I definitely plan to be active on Fanaticus daily, but I can’t speak for anyone else. I’m also open to cross-posting content to this instance. That works for news and even OC, but I agree it would be ideal to settle on one place for discussions (e.g. game threads and polls). Because I only found this community recently, I’m fine with submitting my poll to whichever instance can reach a bigger audience.
2 things there. I wouldn’t be surprised if in a decade we’ve got the user base to have one of the two be casual and one of them much more serious and I think that’s the ideal growth pattern in the fediverse (smaller, more targeted communities, with a “central” hub). But for now like you said for the sake of discussion we probably want “one” community. 2nd point: I think a cfb community on this instance would be great as a landing zone, if our mod was active and could put other links in the sidebar. But as of now that doesn’t seem likely.