Sorry, I may be misunderstanding then. How will you integrate fediverser into the lemmy registration process? I don't think I understand your vision here.
Sounds like a fun coding project. Go ahead and build it! I'm always in favor of more discoverability.
It also sounds like something that would belong on join-lemmy or another standalone service. Not sure where us instance admins come into play.
That's an insane amount of money!!! I'm happy we'll finally be able to see Ohtani in October. And that he won't be playing for the Blue Jays!
Thank you! Yeah I'd say my favorite communities on Reddit were r/baseball and the related team ones so when I saw they didn't exist I created them and got to work on the game bot.
We obviously still need the content and the users to bring back the same feel as those Reddit communities but I hope by making the space I can sort of lower the barrier of entry to those who was to move in. That being said, let me know if you're interested in modding a community!
RE: consolidating the other communities. There's nothing I can really do about that. I know it may not seem like it but it's actually a feature of the fediverse. The best I can do is provide the tools and content in my instance's communities and hope the people follow!
Fanaticus admin here. I've been investigating reported issues where users on other instances aren't able to find our communities. I've taken a number of steps already such as increasing our server resources (4x!) and federation workers (10x!).
I'm looking for some users on other instances to help me test out the federation issues. Please reach out to me if you'd like to help. Thanks!
Alerts for Shohei pitching days?
Hi all, I have Shohei in an ESPN daily league where he can play both UTIL and SP. I've done a really poor job min-maxing this year with him and am missing out on starts (I am not good at daily leagues 😄
Does anyone know a way were I can get alerts on days where Shohei is the probable pitcher so I can move him from UTIL to SP?
Before exploring options, I think we need to define on what we need in our moderation tools.
RE: the options, SaaS'ing this mod tool seems like it goes against the spirit and philosophy of the fediverse. The devs are buried in core work and we need mod tools now.
You're welcome! The sports subs were the pillar of reddit diet. I'm happy to bring it to the fediverse. LMK if you want to moderate any of the communities here or if you have any ideas to improve the site.
The best thing you can do as far as attracting new users and building the community is to not lurk! Post, comment, and like. As much fun as it is to lurk, we've all got to chip in to build this place up.
A blog would be a good idea. The more bots the better (as long as they're useful!).
There is an official lemmy bot repository.
The game day bot (this post) is just a port from the reddit version, redball, written by this nice dude named toddrob. I forked it to create the bot you see here and am working on folding it back into main.
Thank you! This is still the beta version. I'm working on getting it ready for prime-time so all the sports threads have it.
You're welcome! I am working on a redball bot to create the game day threads now! I'm afraid they'll have to be pared back at first though.
Short-Term Fanaticus Roadmap
Here's my immediate-term roadmap for this instance:
- Establish more formal site-wide Code of Conduct
- Define Creative Commons licensing for content
- Build some bots for our mods!
A bit longer, but still short-term:
- Establish an organization to run this instance
- Create a way for this org to collect donations to lesson server cost burden
And starting now/soon but moving into the medium term:
- Refactor infrastructure to ensure durability and stability
- Start and/or contribute to open-sourced projects related to lemmy mod-tooling, bots, and wikis
Maybe not surprisingly, I'm actually off to the park in a few minutes to toss a baseball around with some friends but I'll be back this afternoon to work on these tasks!
Please comment your thoughts on the roadmap. Am I missing anything? Is there anything you'd like to see me focus on? Do you want to contribute?
Today: Writing a Game Day Bot
Good morning everyone! I'm going to start work today on creating a Game Day Bot for lemmy. If anyone has any experience with the existing GDBs on reddit, please reach out to me.
I've struggled to find the open-source version of the code for the r/baseball (and teams') bots and am planning on using this NHL one I found as a template.
It's not a lot of work but it would be a whole lot easier to just fork and update than write all the boiler plate from scratch. If someone could share the existing source code for the popular GDBs I will do just that so new mods can fork a lemmy-specific version.
Great to hear! And welcome! I haven't posted anything in either r/baseball or my home sub, r/NYYankees. I've been testing and trying to get my back-end affairs in order over the past couple days before I started blastin'.
I have however, tried contacting the mods of r/baseball and another individual mod via DM to open a dialogue about a migration but haven't heard back in a few days. I'm not sure if I'm being ignored or if Reddit is blocking me ¯\(ツ)/¯. I also joined r/baseball's discord chat after work today though and was poking around there for the right place to mention it.
I'd welcome any help with spreading the word though! I'd imagine it would be a lot for meaningful coming from a fellow Friar than a dirty Yank :)
Migrating baseball redditors to non-default instances
The fans home for baseball. Cloned from r/baseball [https://old.reddit.com/r/baseball/] along with all our team subreddits! # Looking for mods!
Hello, this might break the instances rules for self-promotion but I hope they forgive the plug in the name of spreading the load off the default lemmy.ml instance.
I started an instance at fanaticus.social specifically to talk about sports -- no politics allowed! I also created a sister community to this instance's [email protected] as well as clones of the subreddits for all 30 major league teams.
I know the main default lemmy.ml and beehaw.org have experienced some load issues recently so I think it's prudent to spread the love. Fanaticus is dedicated to all sports-related content, not just baseball, but I'm starting there because that's my passion! See ya there!
Migrating to lemmy
Welcome Guardians fans!
cross-posted from: https://fanaticus.social/post/911
> However you've found fanaticus, welcome! I've created this lemmy instance to host the major sports subreddits and their related team communities. > > ## About me > I'm a big baseball fan and mostly used reddit to access my favorite sports communities. I'm also a tech nerd and SWE by trade. I was pretty upset when reddit announced they were killing 3rd party apps but I decided that I'd use my skills and resources to do something. Be the change and all that. > > ## About Fanaticus > When you arrive, you may have found that I've created all these empty communities with no content in them. I'm not trying to be an influencer or power-user or even a moderator. I'm simply trying to lower the barrier to entry to move existing communities off of reddit and to something that we own1. I think this will be especially important come black-out time next week and beyond. > > Let me know if you're interested in moderating one of these communities I've created, or create your own! I don't care! As long as we keep this instance on topic (sports) then you're free to create and post as much as you'd like. > > > 1 Regarding the "that we own" piece of that statement, I am more than willing (would actually prefer) if we, the sports social media community of this instance, created some sort of ownership/admin structure (e.g. non-profit) that removed me as the sole admin/server host of this instance. Seeing as there's no "we" on this instance at the moment, I think that's a conversation for the future (after all, this will probably fail!). But for trusts' sake, I just wanted to let you know what I'm thinking.
Migrating to lemmy
Welcome Reds fans!
cross-posted from: https://fanaticus.social/post/911
> However you've found fanaticus, welcome! I've created this lemmy instance to host the major sports subreddits and their related team communities. > > ## About me > I'm a big baseball fan and mostly used reddit to access my favorite sports communities. I'm also a tech nerd and SWE by trade. I was pretty upset when reddit announced they were killing 3rd party apps but I decided that I'd use my skills and resources to do something. Be the change and all that. > > ## About Fanaticus > When you arrive, you may have found that I've created all these empty communities with no content in them. I'm not trying to be an influencer or power-user or even a moderator. I'm simply trying to lower the barrier to entry to move existing communities off of reddit and to something that we own1. I think this will be especially important come black-out time next week and beyond. > > Let me know if you're interested in moderating one of these communities I've created, or create your own! I don't care! As long as we keep this instance on topic (sports) then you're free to create and post as much as you'd like. > > > 1 Regarding the "that we own" piece of that statement, I am more than willing (would actually prefer) if we, the sports social media community of this instance, created some sort of ownership/admin structure (e.g. non-profit) that removed me as the sole admin/server host of this instance. Seeing as there's no "we" on this instance at the moment, I think that's a conversation for the future (after all, this will probably fail!). But for trusts' sake, I just wanted to let you know what I'm thinking.
Migrating to lemmy
However you've found fanaticus, welcome! I've created this lemmy instance to host the major sports subreddits and their related team communities.
About me
I'm a big baseball fan and mostly used reddit to access my favorite sports communities. I'm also a tech nerd and SWE by trade. I was pretty upset when reddit announced they were killing 3rd party apps but I decided that I'd use my skills and resources to do something. Be the change and all that.
About Fanaticus
When you arrive, you may have found that I've created all these empty communities with no content in them. I'm not trying to be an influencer or power-user or even a moderator. I'm simply trying to lower the barrier to entry to move existing communities off of reddit and to something that we own1. I think this will be especially important come black-out time next week and beyond.
Let me know if you're interested in moderating one of these communities I've created, or create your own! I don't care! As long as we keep this instance on topic (sports) then you're free to create and post as much as you'd like.
1 Regarding the "that we own" piece of that statement, I am more than willing (would actually prefer) if we, the sports social media community of this instance, created some sort of ownership/admin structure (e.g. non-profit) that removed me as the sole admin/server host of this instance. Seeing as there's no "we" on this instance at the moment, I think that's a conversation for the future (after all, this will probably fail!). But for trusts' sake, I just wanted to let you know what I'm thinking.
Request for Moderators
Is anyone interested in moderating our new baseball community?
I am looking to replicate r/baseball in both spirit and possibly literally copy it.
A Place for Sports
cross-posted from: https://fanaticus.social/post/494
> When reddit goes dark this month and forever after, I'll be looking for a new home on the internet to discuss my favorite pastime, baseball. > > I am not here to convince you that lemmy is the next best thing or that it's going to replace reddit but it's the best we have now. If people of like minds or similar interests band together, we can create our own place and ensure that place doesn't disappear or decay because it's controlled by companies or individuals who don't have the community's best interests in mind. > > To that end, I've created this lemmy instance, separate from the main lemmy.ml instance, in order to create a space for sports fans to discuss and share news about their favorite sports, teams, players, etc. > > I think it's important for durability's sake that there is no mass migration from reddit to a single lemmy instance. That defeats the most powerful part of lemmy: the federation. > > If a community can own and run it's own servers, it can never be beholden to anyone.
A Place for Baseball
When reddit goes dark this month and forever after, I'll be looking for a new home on the internet to discuss my favorite pastime, baseball.
I am not here to convince you that lemmy is the next best thing or that it's going to replace reddit but it's the best we have now. If people of like minds or similar interests band together, we can create our own place and ensure that place doesn't disappear or decay because it's controlled by companies or individuals who don't have the community's best interests in mind.
To that end, I've created this lemmy instance, separate from the main lemmy.ml instance, in order to create a space for sports fans to discuss and share news about their favorite sports, teams, players, etc.
I think it's important for durability's sake that there is no mass migration from reddit to a single lemmy instance. That defeats the most powerful part of lemmy: the federation.
If a community can own and run it's own servers, it can never be beholden to anyone.