There seems to be an annoying assumption in Lemmy communities that the best way to grow is to duplicate how it worked on Reddit.
Reddit’s r/nba has hundreds of thousands or millions of readers. Their system can support lots of game-day threads because they have the numbers.
I log onto this community and I’m turned off. There are too many bot threads and not enough critical mass of discussion. Before the bots, it was better because there were only a few threads so at least people felt there was something worth participating in.
I guess I could block the bot, but this doesn’t fix the issue for the community. I suggest that these game threads can be merged into groupings. Perhaps just one thread for all the day’s games.
The point is to grow the community with the current audience in mind, not to assume that what works for Reddit is going to immediately work for Lemmy.
My vote is to split the difference.
I think post game threads should be all bot automated. Also makes cross posts easier for team communities.
Game threads aren’t well suited on Lemmy.
I am working on a community on a lightweight discord clone, much slimmer than discord, such that we can have actual live game participation linked to and from Lemmy, but let Lemmy do what it’s better at: asynchronous threads.
Matrix is not good and Discord is a bit much.
With this alternative, I’m thinking we can have a single chat community for synchronized discussion—and game threads/teams can be channels within the room. It will feel much nicer having everyone from Lemmy closer together. Basically /c/NBA chat with team rooms/game chats.
dew it