The NFL season is about to start and it would be nice to have as many people as possible participating on the communities from https://nfl.community/. Being a topic-specific instance with closed registrations, I'm aware that it is harder to be discovered, so I'm writing here with the intent of both promoting a bit and to find enthusiasts joining in.

If you'd like to help the instance and the team communities grow, there are two ways to help:

Join https://fediverser.network/, find the Lemmy community you want to help and apply to become a Community Ambassador. Community Ambassadors can add different sources of content and also send invites to "good" reddit users to migrate.
Become a moderator of your team community. The communities are still all low in traffic, so I guess the hardest part for the moderators will be in finding and posting the type of content that you'd like to see in the community, in order to set out its tone.

As always, if you have any questions don't hesitate to ask!

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[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago (13 children)

The idea is to have one recommendation for each subreddit, not of all communities that can theoretically be related to a given subreddit.

I get that. And that's why I say it's not trying to help people understand Fediverse or ease them into it, but just to find a clone of the enshitified platform.

If someone sets up a Fediverser instance to mirror Reddit content <...>

There is 0 value in that. What's the point of mirroring Reddit and then asking Reddit users to join here, instead of staying where they are, if the content is the same?

Multiple fediverser sites is not a problem. Actually, there are already other deployments and I'm actively looking for other admins willing to deploy it on their servers.

How does this help with easing users into Fediverse? You object to the idea of listing multiple alternatives because it's confusing, but you are fine with multiple sites for the same recommendations. Seems contradictory.

Also, can you give me a reason for rejecting !rivian@lemmy.zip? And explaining why communities with 0 activity (e.g. !playstation@level-up.zone and !xbox@level-up.zone) are chosen over active ones?

[–] rglullis@communick.news 2 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Getting people out of Reddit and into the Fediverse is the goal. If that happens though different Fediverser instances, it's fine.

What's the point of mirroring Reddit if the content is the same?

Because Reddit's content is not the problem, the rent seeking is. Their shitty client is. Their closing of the API is.

The people that are still on Reddit are not there out of loyalty, they are just there because that is where they find the content.

a reason for rejecting !rivian@lemmy.zip?

Because it is a community that is not on a topic specific instance with 3 posts, all by yourself.

why communities with 0 activity (e.g. !playstation@level-up.zone and !xbox@level-up.zone) are chosen over active ones?

That is my mistake. I was setting these communities for Reddit mirroring. What alternatives do you think should be in its place?

[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Getting people out of Reddit and into the Fediverse is the goal. If that happens though different Fediverser instances, it's fine.

I feel like you are purposely avoiding the question. You previously said:

Baby steps. go take a look at /r/RedditAlternatives right now and see how many people are telling how difficult it is to migrate. We are not getting them out of enshittified platforms if they are thrown into a whole new paradigm. We need to ease them into it.

So how does multiple instances help with that? From my point of view, it makes it much more difficult and more confusing.

Because Reddit's content is not the problem, the rent seeking is. Their shitty client is. Their closing of the API is.

That is a false fallacy. We know that is not true from failed blackout. There were multiple platforms that people could have gone to, but didn't. Even outside Fediverse, where complexity of usability is not an issue. A very small minority of people left due to 3rd party clients being killed.

Because it is a community that is not on a topic specific instance with 3 posts, all by yourself.

!latteart@lemmy.zip is identical to !rivian@lemmy.zip. I'm the only poster, but it was approved.

I'm just trying to understand what are the criteria. Does criteria from https://communick.news/comment/2934810 also apply to first recommendation or all recommendations? Because there are plenty of recommended communities with solo posters.

Is it better to have no recommendation until some threshold is reached?

What alternatives do you think should be in its place?

All that matches the criteria, whatever they are from the above, but clearly we are in disagreement here.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

!latteart@lemmy.zip is identical to !rivian@lemmy.zip.

latteart does not have an topic-specific instance that I would consider a better home. rivian does.

Is it better to have no recommendation until some threshold is reached?

It could be. My concern though is that this will lead to just a bunch of communities created around the top 3 largest instances. I strongly believe that one way to avoid network effects acting in favor of any particular instance is by establishing a more clean separation between "instances for people" and "instances for groups".

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My concern though is that this will lead to just a bunch of communities created around the top 3 largest instances.

If I may, lemmy.zip isn't in the top 3 instances. According to https://lemmy.ca/post/26878531, they barely have 3 communities in the 100 most active communities.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And this is why I didn't hesitate to approve some of the recommendations there. Still, "topic-specific instances over generic ones" remains a primary guideline.

[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

latteart does not have an topic-specific instance that I would consider a better home. rivian does.

Yet, now, it has none.

There is no constancy in how things are applied.

Has 3 recommendations and allows recommending more.

Has 1 and doesn't allow recommending more.

Both are generic topics, but are also broad enough to potentially have topic-based instance. But are treated differently.

I'm starting to come to the conclusion that having a gatekeeper for recommendations is not the right approach. It will always lead to uneven application. Allowing all matching ones eliminates that issue as well as your "top 3 largest instance" concern.

But it's clear that we are in fundamental disagreement here. Time will tell if your effort was successful. Good luck.

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