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.
Good thinking. I sent them all a message.
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!
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.
Bus-factor-2, let's go! Welcome to the mod team 😁
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.
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 :)
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.