Beautiful! How old?

That sucks. Is your game bot open source? Is there anything I can do to help?

You’re welcome!

We’re out here! I’m an admin at fanaticus.social. We’re a sports-only instance. We’re the instance /u/Garrathian was talking about.

If you miss your sports and want to discuss them, come on over and check us out. We have all the major sports and their teams’ communities set up and have ported the game bot (for baseball right now) over. We’re planning on having the game bots ported over before the start of the other major sports’ seasons.

We’ve only ported over the MLB game bots over to lemmy right now (because it’s the only sport in season) but we’ll be porting the other major sports bots over before the season starts! One of our users created communities for all the major sports teams in preparation for this. If you’d like to mod any let me know!

So, I’m new here, but I’m still struggling to see the advantage of smaller and more focused instances.

One benefit of focused instances is that we can sort of insulate ourselves from de-federation conflicts amongst the larger, user-focused instances. I’m not sure if you we around for the beehaw.org defederation from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works but those were 3/4 of the biggest instances and those users can no longer interact. Users from lemmy.world were basically blocked from all new content on the communities they were subscribed to on beehaw.org and vice versa.

I host a sports-focused instance fanaticus.social where all we talk about is sports. It’s a non-controversial topic (most of the time) and because we’re focused on that one topic, users from all the instances like beehaw, lemmy.world, sh.itjust.works, can still interact with and create content for sports without worrying about losing access to the communities they’re a part of. That’s the major advantage as far as I see it.

I don’t care about user registration counts because most of our content comes from users on general instances. In the future we will probably disable registration altogether. I have only left it open for now to reduce the friction for new fediverse users if they happen to find our instance first and want to make fanaticus their home instance.

Shameless plug for !baseball@fanaticus.social (check out our sidebar for the team-specific communities). We’ve got the game bots ported over and are working on improving them and adding new features.

I agree with !matt@lemmy.world though, the Venn diagram of sports fans and tech-savvy lemmy pioneers is pretty small. You can help by posting and commenting to attract more users. More content == more users (eventually).

Hi! I’m an admin of fanaticus.social. I’d like to apologize for the game bots disappearance. It’s back now! I made pinned a post about it, which you can read here.

We’re working hard to iron out the kinks in the game bots but I apologize for the inconvenience. I was on vacation last week and because of a bug, the choice was between keeping the fanaticus servers up or putting the bots to sleep.

The live game threads were some of my favorite parts of Reddit too. I can’t do anything about the small user base but porting the game bots over to lemmy and posting content is the best way I could think of to start attracting users.

Hi I’m an admin over at fanaticus.social! We’ve been hard at work porting the game bots over to lemmy. All 30 MLB teams have their bots configured and running now and we’re working on rolling out the sidebar bots, adding some new features, and porting the other four major sports bots to lemmy as well.

Check out the sidebar in !baseball@fanaticus.social for links to your team’s community.

😆 sorry about that! Baseball season is still very much on.

This issue was caused by the websockets replacing the current thread you were on with newly updated or created posts. Our game threads get updated frequently so they were constantly popping up in people’s faces. We decreased the frequency of the updates pretty substantially in order to be less annoying to unrelated instances but it was still happening occasionally.

Now that we’re all through with websockets it won’t be an issue anymore!

!badminton@fanaticus.social enjoy! Let me know if you’d like to be a mod.

Oof well that’s definitely not right. I’ll keep debugging!

Oh. Good question. I don’t think so. Which one would you like me to create? Wrestling? Can I make you a mod?

We’ve got game day threads at fanaticus! I forked the popular bot from reddit and made it compatible with lemmy.

We’ve got game day threads at fanaticus! I forked the popular bot from reddit and made it compatible with lemmy.

Come on over! Everyone’s free to start their own community!

Hey, just wanted to let you know, Lemmy is a little weird with it’s federation right now. When a user from an instance first subscribes to a community, it won’t retrieve the historical comments, only the new ones. I do think the last 20 posts do get pulled though.

Hey, just wanted to let you know, I’m an admin at fanaticus and you’re definitely not banned haha. You can check the mod log!

Lemmy is a little weird with it’s federation right now. When a user from an instance first subscribes to a community, it won’t retrieve the historical comments, only the new ones. I do think the last 20 posts do get pulled though.

Not that I know of but I’ve found a couple of stats pages in my travels:

• https://the-federation.info/
• https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list

Be the change you want to see in the world! And also share your graphs with the rest of us 😁