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

  • pnutzh4x0r@lemmy.ndlug.org
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    I would be fine shifting to !cfb@fanaticus.social. As you said, we are already pretty small… so being spread out would be a bad idea. If we can concentrate on one community and build momentum, I would be all for that.

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      So here we’re something like 800 strong but with an inactive mod. While fanaticus.social only has like 300 users I think the draw is their mods put together game threads and stuff so we wouldn’t have to self organize that. We’ll see what some more responses say but I too am fine shifting to fanaticus

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        IIRC, you only see local subs from any given instance’s landing page for a community. For instance, their own page currently shows 321 subs, but on lemmy.world’s page I see 104. I believe these are additive.

        Anyway, I don’t completely love the high volume of low-engagement posts on fanaticus (glancing, it seems somewhat better now?), but I can see a lot of benefits from centralizing_somewhere_, hence my earlier bailing on kbin.social’s cfb magazine. Then, startrek.website is a good example of a dedicated fan instance with active moderation fostering a lot of commenting. Commenting is the only real reason to partake in sports social media, IMHO; the scores and news are better found in tweets (but not the replies, oh god not the replies) or any random broadcaster’s sports site.

        So, if we’re going, let’s go. a few crossposts per week to keep the lights on here ought to be enough to funnel new sickos over to wherever our little fungus spore latches on and starts growing.

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          I’m planning on posting the poll over there and then crossposting here (Maybe trashtalk? that had some traction). Outside of that I’m really just looking for game threads. And as evidenced by umass v jmu, I’m more than willing to shout into the void myself. I’m just trying to figure out what the best net to cast is in order to find more users that will make me seem a little less crazy