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!

Cheers

  • mogabi@fanaticus.socialEnglish
    8·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • platefork@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      Ah, very cool! I haven’t found a great way to discover new servers, so I hadn’t heard of this before.

      This is very similar to what I was picturing - a server which only allows sports-related communities to be made.

      Thanks for sharing, I’m going to start using the communities from that server and promoting it around where I can.

    • KrestenEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      It looks like it’s just clubs and baseball. What about some subs for general sport. Like /c/badminton

  • zork@lemmy.caEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    I can’t offer advice, but I do support this idea! Consolidate the sports!

  • Duffman@lemmy.oneEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • haulyard@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    I think you’re on to something here, and would be willing to help support where I can. My guess is that my tech acumen is far behind most others here. But feel free to include me if you decide to dive deeper.

  • FooSolo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    2 years ago

    It sounds like a good idea in theory, but consolidating all communities on one instance might lead to some shenanigans down the road. If one group of fans go around and causes the instance to be defederated than all the communities will be blocked.

    Also let’s say as an example the NFL or MLB does not like what is going on in the instance, they could go after the mods. Example on Reddit was r/NFLstreams was taken down.

    I would think it would be beneficial to have league communities and team communities spread out amongst different instances which would make it harder for leagues and teams to interfere with them.

  • workinkindofhard@kbin.social
    1·
    2 years ago

    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