We’re at a great nexus for Lemmy here, with so many users (including me) giving up Reddit for good and moving to the federated universe.
One thing I loved and will miss about Reddit are the sports-related subs I had – large league subs (like NBA and NFL) and smaller team subs.
There are efforts to organize new communities across Lemmy servers (including some on lemmy.world), but I see a great opportunity to start a new server focused on sports and team subs.
Why not just make these communities on an existing server?
My thoughts are – right now there are various team and sports subs across many servers. The natural expectation is eventually one of these team or sports subs will become the main community people will subscribe to. Having a sports-specific server will expedite this process, and will give sports fans a one-stop shop for where to go to subscribe.
My goal would be a server instance people would know is the ‘source’ for the largest sports communities.
Tell me I’m dumb, or provide me constructive feedback, or let’s talk more about setting up a server!
Fanaticus.social is here already but there’s definitely plenty of fragmentation overall. There’s probably more than I realize because I’m still figuring this place out.
I can’t offer much help unfortunately, but I love this idea. That was one of the main draws to Reddit for me. Chatting it up in GameDay threads was a blast.
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Fanaticus.social is here already but there’s definitely plenty of fragmentation overall. There’s probably more than I realize because I’m still figuring this place out.
It looks like it’s just clubs and baseball. What about some subs for general sport. Like /c/badminton
It’s still being fleshed out and growing each day. I’d definitely support a general sport community there as well.
Like wrestling? :P
Come on over! Everyone’s free to start their own community!
Can I create a community without being on the instance?
Oh. Good question. I don’t think so. Which one would you like me to create? Wrestling? Can I make you a mod?
Badminton👀
I can’t offer much help unfortunately, but I love this idea. That was one of the main draws to Reddit for me. Chatting it up in GameDay threads was a blast.
We’ve got game day threads at fanaticus! I forked the popular bot from reddit and made it compatible with lemmy.
Literally the only thing I miss about Reddit is Padres gameday threads and NLBest
I will spend the vast majority of my time on whatever instance has the largest mlb and nfl communities
We’ve got game day threads at fanaticus! I forked the popular bot from reddit and made it compatible with lemmy.