Did /r/NBA mods even show support for the blackout? It's one of reddit's most popular subs, and I wouldn't dare moderate such community without mod tools...
Yeah the users were very pissed from what I saw. To be honest that sub was getting pretty toxic and I was on it for over a decade. It’s nice to come out to a smaller community, reminds me of the old days.
I think the mods let the community decide and it was like 55/45 for it.... They ended up doing the 2 day protest, but was right back up and running after the 2 days. I'm not surprised that many people were against protesting, as most those people were casual users and probably only used r/NBA and didn't visit the other subs.
I thought I’d miss the void that r/nba left but this has grown (and keeps growing) as a community. Been trying to do my part by being much more active than I was on Reddit.
Is there any kind of bot we can program to automatically post all tweets from Shams and Woj? They’re almost always newsworthy and worth discussing anyway. I’m worried we don’t have enough users to cover all their tweets here.
That would be amazing. I'm sure it can be done, or maybe even a bot that posts updates from the Shams and Woj Mastodon accounts which mirror their twitters. That way it minimizes API calls to Twitter (since that seems to be a limiting factor as of this week) and also would still allow people without a Twitter account to still click through into the post.
It's a fun community to be a part of! Off topic question, which apps are you all using? I'm using connect for lemmy and I like the layout a lot but it has a lot of connection issues. May not be the app though.
I've been using the browser as a light app on Android. Surprisingly good browser experience, but will move to app once Boost and Sync get their apps out for lemmy.