i don’t want to speak poorly of other communities, but the lw community has been pretty low on content, even during the season. I think that !nba@nba.space has been getting more traffic nowadays… They are now planning to move the community elsewhere, and I asked if they wanted to join efforts and got largely ignored.
There needs to be a critical mass of people otherwise it will be just a random handful of people screming into the void. I was posting almost daily on football and basketball communities since the reddit diaspora. So far !nba@nba.space has 2 or 3 regular contributors. The other basketball communities are even worse.
I follow some accounts on sportsbots, but it’s not the same. AFAIK it’s only mirroring Twitter accounts. Also, if there is a lesson I learned from building alien.top is that excessive reliance on bot accounts to bootstrap communities also make organic adoption more difficult.
I still need to go to Reddit and YouTube to get basketball commentary, and popular hashtags can get pretty overwhelming and targeted by spammers - try following #football on tags.pub and you get repeated posts from different sources about the same news and very little commentary.
There are plenty already…
That’s essentially what I was doing with the “Community Ambassador” feature on fediverser. They could define all types of RSS feeds as sources of content, and there is a button that lets them select and easily create posts on the Lemmy communities.
The problem with relying on bots for that is that if they post too much content they end overwhelming the members and bringing “organic” output down. Any bot would have to be set up so that it never gets to post more than any “real” member.
Don’t think of these efforts as some form of central planning, but as a simple catalyst.
I’ve tried that with the “Community Ambassadors” idea where people could get content from different sources to help bring content to the curated communities on fediverser. It went largely ignored.
I’m more than willing to try again, however I am tired of instance drama and the tribal mentality that makes people associate a community to “their” instance. So I am not interested in supporting this in any instance that does not have a specific topic or interest group behind.
Buddy, who said anything about making bot posts?
It’s the second post where you show up with some bs condescending commentary and assuming the worst about the poster. Do you talk with people like that in real life, or are yiu just this grating online?