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.

  • Garrathian@fanaticus.socialEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Thanks for creating this instance! I’ll do my part to spread the word and attract more users on lemmy to subscribe to communities on here. It would go a long way towards letting me fully disconnect from reddit

    • Fanaticus One@fanaticus.socialOPMEnglish
      3·
      1 year 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.

  • wandy_dev@beehaw.orgEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Thanks for starting this. I was missing the post game threads today. I’m hoping that this catches on.

    • Fanaticus One@fanaticus.socialOPMEnglish
      3·
      1 year 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.

  • oCmon@fanaticus.socialEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Hopefully more of the Dodgers folk get into the… sub? instance? Not sure what to call it. I’ve been missing the interaction in the game day threads :')

    • Fanaticus One@fanaticus.socialOPMEnglish
      3·
      1 year 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 :)

  • jabbadonut@fanaticus.socialEnglish
    2·
    4 months ago

    Let’s all take a moment for the passing of Orlando Cepeda. I watched him play and he was one of the all time greats. RIP, and my condolences to his family and friends.