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Consolidating duplicate communities (fanaticus.social)
submitted 1 year ago by headie_sage@fanaticus.social to c/seattlemariners@lemmy.world
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Hi! I’m the admin over at fanaticus.social. We’re a sports-only instance. We already host some of the biggest baseball communities on lemmy.

I wanted to open a dialogue about consolidating our two communities into !mariners@fanaticus.social. We've been hard at work on our game bots but are missing the content and users that make this community fun.

I propose that the mods of this community migrate to the mariners community on fanaticus and mod there instead and make this community private with a pinned post directing users to your new home on fanaticus (see this community as an example).

The major benefits I see in this arrangement are:

  1. Allows new users (esp. non-technical users) to find their sports communities easier
  2. Protects users from losing access to their favorite sports/teams' communities due to de-federation conflicts (e.g. beehaw vs lemmy.world)
  3. Allows bot developers and content-creators to more easily collaborate and create content for our communities

Finally, I just want to be clear that I'm not trying to steal anyone’s communities or be an uber-mod or anything nefarious. I’m also not proposing anyone switch their home instance to fanaticus. What I’m saying is that I believe it would be best for the health of the sports communities, especially in their infancy, to consolidate to a topic-specific sports instance like fanaticus.

Let me know your thoughts!

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[–] SexyTimeSasquatch@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess I don't see the point of consolidating. I like the fact that we're not getting spammed by bot created game posts. Those are nice if you've got a large active community, but in these smaller groups it just pushes conversations and articles out of the feed. There's room for both communities.

[–] headie_sage@fanaticus.social 1 points 1 year ago

FWIW, those bots are totally customizable. The ideal scenario would include both the game bot (less spammy if ya'll prefer it that way) and articles and conversations.

[–] zdrvr@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What kinda infrastructure is supporting your instance? Is this running on a Raspberry Pi in a basement?

[–] headie_sage@fanaticus.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

😂 no not quite. A dedicated 4 core vCPU w/ 8GB of RAM hosted on DO for the main server and a smaller server for game bots and maintenance tasks. Plenty of room to grow!

Looking to move towards a object storage for pict-rs but wanted to wait until the 0.18.1 upgrade first.

[–] zdrvr@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you the only Admin? I am not a mariners fan but just stumbled in from All. I did join in my teams communities though. Hopefully some of these sports groups take off.

[–] headie_sage@fanaticus.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am currently, yes. I'll have to talk to @ruud@lemmy.world. I'm not sure how he went about recruiting an admin team. Seems like a tough thing to do over the internet.