For those that don't know, there is a sister community over on fanaticus.social/c/cfb that was also relatively empty in the first wave of users and as such we consolidated here as there were a few more active users. However given juan seems to be a phantom and the mods over there are active should we switch community posts back over there? They have a small mod team that's active again and based on yesterday they seem to be willing to put some work into shaping the community. Again as this is the fediverse it doesn't really matter since you can very easily sub to both but since we're small I imagine a little bit of cohesiveness will help things like the c/cfb poll and weekly threads. Discuss
Edit: per discussion I will be moving my posts to !cfb@fanaticus.social (also !cfbmemes@lemmy.world) and cross posting them here for visibility
As the founder and main mod of /c/cfb@fanaticus.social, if anyone here wants to be a mod over there just let me know. I’m not sure if the Lemmy.world users know this but our instance was blocked for about three-four weeks by the Lemmy.world admins which is why users on this instance were unable to see our posts for awhile. Our main admin was able to get this resolved so we are federated again (thankfully). I also have over a hundred individual team communities that need mods so please feel free to ask to take over those communities!
I'm trying to work on adding a CFB bot to the existing redball bots (https://github.com/benja810/redball/tree/lemmy-nfl) so if anyone is familiar with CFB API and is willing to help us out, let me know. I hope to see everyone over there and I will keep coming over here as well to see what’s going on!
I wouldn't mind helping out there. Just let me know what you need. I have a bit of a Python dev background as well, so I can at least try and help with bots.
Hey, I have always appreciated the ambition at fanaticus, but kind of wondered if it didn't have the unintended consequence of making the place look a bit vast-yet-desolate. That said, we're obviously starting to run up against absentee mods and limited coding skills on our general interest instances, and engaged mods and admin would be nice. I'd be more than happy to see if it can work to drive the communication there. I reckon it's more or less how lemmy was designed to work best anyway.
Tell me, good sir, have y'all had any luck figuring out a semi-scalable flair solution? Right now, kludges with scripts and just recognizing names is still mostly working, but even the modest game threads were showing some cracks in that.