Thoughts on bringing sportbots.xyz to Lemmy?

[email protected]

You're one of the big posters I don't mind seeing and now it makes sense why. The way so many of the other top posters (well, two in particular but I won't name them) post feels so....soulless. Either spamming 20 memes they saved off Instagram that day in 10 minutes or posting Reddit's Greatest Hits.

As much as I'd love if everything was OC, I MUCH prefer the curated approach to making Lemmy yet another bucket to archive everything from every other site

Baron Von J

As the mod of a couple of sports communities it would be nice to have some more automated content being posted (like game-day match threads, player trades, etc). However, I have yet to receive a response from sportsbots to any of my requests for adding league and team accounts to be mirrored. I don't think I'd want every one of their microblog post to show up in the communities, though.

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That sounds handy for Mastodon and annoying for Lemmy.

[email protected]

Why would you "not want sports in Lemmy"? Like, how is a sports community (like those that already exist on here) hurting you?

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Something like that going to relevant communities and only posting more popular things might work. I don’t want to see every Adam Schefter post in c/NFL, for example. I guess to some extent we could rely on the sorting algorithms to keep the communities from getting flooded, but it still could start drowning out the experience.

OP, maybe somebody at https://fanaticus.social/ would be interested in hosting these? It seems like their goal is to become Lemmy’s sports home.

[email protected]

Reposting based on a signal sounds like the best idea.

Because we kinda have the alternative in place: lemmit chose the way of replicating reddit posts onto a committed instance. That means that someone still has to manually go, look at - for example the F1 - lemmit, choose an interesting post there and cross-post it to the relevant lemmy community.

If the repost into a relevant lemmy community happened automatically based on a signal, that would take off work from users.

Could that signal be the number of interactions in activitypub for a sportsbots post? Or would it be the Twitter interactions?

[email protected]

fanaticus.social seems a bit zombified. Instance hasn't been updated since 0.19.3, last I checked the admin hasn't been active for months and the baseball communities (which were in the beginning the most active) were pretty much silent the whole season.

I have a handful of sports-focused instances which would surely benefit from this:

[email protected] (and communities for every NBA team)
[email protected] (and for the teams)
[email protected] (and the main leagues/biggest clubs)
[email protected]

[email protected]

There's no lack of dead sports communities around. Turning them into dead sport bot communities doesn't sound like it would help. Sports fans aren't going to show up for that.

Going through the effort of manually posting screenshots in the sports communities would go way farther than getting a bot to cross post.

[email protected]

Going through the effort of manually posting screenshots in the sports communities would go way farther than getting a bot to cross post.

Sorry, this is a bit condescending.

Go take a look at my profile. I have almost 2000 posts already. I've been posting 10-20 posts every day to all the different sport communities. Do you think that dedicating a good half-hour every day to read a bunch of feeds and sharing them is not already enough effort?

I'm not saying that we should rely only on mirror accounts, but I'm saying that it makes no sense to ignore them. I'm not proposing to take just a random army of AI slop and put it here. I'm saying that we can look at the places where the content curation already has been made and replicate it here.

[email protected]

I have almost 2000 posts already.

FYI, I see indeed 1.43k posts on your https://communick.news/u/rglullis, but https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/[email protected] only shows 597. SJW shows 617: https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

So not sure where you posted the missing ones, but it seems like it was on communities that large instances do not follow.

[email protected]

Ok, I have 1.92k comments, not posts.

[email protected]

[email protected]
[email protected], with an impressive 66 comments post 4 days ago: https://lemmy.world/post/25015517
[email protected] has 10 comments on their last posts

[email protected]

Keep pushing/promoting the LW communities...

[email protected]

Why is the burden on the other users to block your Twitter bots?

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Because it's their responsibility to curate their own feeds.

[email protected]

Yes but those are a part of social media.
Content you dont like posted by people here on social media is not equivalent to botspam.

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"Botspam" is when you have someone mass sending programs sending messages that do not enrich the content of the network. A bot that is mirroring perfectly good accounts from other platforms is far from the case.

Put another way: if the content is relevant to the point where part of the people want to have it, and if the content being mirrored has a proper context for some members of the community, then we shouldn't count it as spam.

[email protected]

I think Blaze's point still is relevant: if you are posting a lot on communities that large instances dont even know about, then your efforts will be harder. Ideally one could change something about that, for example use a user account on such a big instance to pull in those communities into federation.

[email protected]

We locked and migrated [email protected] to [email protected], so not sure what you mean?

I'm not active on the two others, but just noted that the LW versions are active

[email protected]

I'm already dealing with more than 15 topic-specific instances, some of them with multiple communities, plus Communick. If I try to keep track of "who-is-following-what", I will go insane. I'd rather believe that eventually more people get to learn about these instances and start contributing as well.