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[Passan] Shohei Ohtani's deal with the Dodgers is for 10 years and $700 million. in c/baseball@fanaticus.social
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[Passan] Shohei Ohtani's deal with the Dodgers is for 10 years and $700 million. (twitter.com)
A Place for Baseball in c/baseball@fanaticus.social
[–] fanaticus_admin@fanaticus.social 4 points 2 years ago

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.

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Anyone want to mod? (fanaticus.social)
 

This community needs a mod other than just me. Anyone want to volunteer?

A Place for Baseball in c/baseball@fanaticus.social
[–] fanaticus_admin@fanaticus.social 1 points 2 years ago

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.

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Today: Writing a Game Day Bot (fanaticus.social)
 

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.

A Place for Baseball in c/baseball@fanaticus.social
[–] fanaticus_admin@fanaticus.social 2 points 2 years ago

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 :)

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Migrating to lemmy (fanaticus.social)
 

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 own^1^. 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.

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Request for Moderators (fanaticus.social)
 

Is anyone interested in moderating our new baseball community?

I am looking to replicate r/baseball in both spirit and possibly literally copy it.

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A Place for Baseball (fanaticus.social)
 

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.