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Migrating baseball redditors to non-default instances (fanaticus.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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!

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[–] imaqtpie 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fantastic work man. There has been so much going on here these past couple weeks that I'm just now getting around to finding a baseball community. First I'm hearing about Fanaticus as well, for a while I thought I was the only sports fan here 😅

I saw the article about Elly de la Cruz hitting for the cycle and was kinda scared to look on Lemmy because I was like damn I'm gonna have to do all this work setting up a baseball community or stimulating conversation in one. Imagine how happy I was to find you got here way before me and already made great progress.

FYI these also exist. We definitely need to consolidate in one location for at least a few months until activity picks up, but you can figure out the details of making that happen.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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!

[–] imaqtpie 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, I would at least consider posting to the other communities or messaging the mods. Can't hurt to ask.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Good thinking. I sent them all a message.