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!

  • rglullis@communick.newsOPEnglish
    3·
    5 months ago

    Don’t forget, the main goal of Fediverser is not to create a comprehensive map, but to help people who are migrating from Reddit and are not familiar with how the Fediverse works to get started. For them, it’s better to have one entry point for most of their topics, then to give them a bunch of different communities with the same name but slightly different mechanics.

    What amount of activity is considered enough?

    Ideally, something proportional to the corresponding subreddit and with more than one single person dominating the posting.

    Basic things like spam, illegal content and alike everyone can agree on.

    That seems enough for now. But there were also cases of communities that were on smaller instances with poor uptime or seem abandoned. I removed them.

    • BrikoX@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      <…> the main goal of Fediverser is not to create a comprehensive map <…>

      I’m confused.

      <…> are not familiar with how the Fediverse works to get started. For them, it’s better to have one entry point for most of their topics, then to give them a bunch of different communities with the same name but slightly different mechanics.

      Seems counterproductive. I thought we want people to embrace the Fediverse because it’s Fediverse and not to create a clone of enshitified platforms. Funneling people to a few instances just amplifies the issue of big instances being the only place to grow any new community.

      Ideally, something proportional to the corresponding subreddit and with more than one single person dominating the posting.

      So it’s better to promote the same popular communities and create a doom-loop of no new community ever-growing in activity because it never gets recommended?

      We seem to have a different philosophy of what Fediverse is. Embracing diversity and federation are the fundamental principles behind Fediverse to me, not just trying to increase statistical numbers.

      • rglullis@communick.newsOPEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        You are right. The wording needs to change, it should read as something like “comprehensive map of alternatives to Reddit”, which is only in the subheader.

        I thought we want people to embrace the Fediverse because it’s Fediverse and not to create a clone of enshitified platforms.

        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 it’s better to promote the same popular communities and create a doom-loop of no new community ever-growing in activity because it never gets recommended?

        Yes. The paradox of choice is real. You and I might prefer to have absolute control, but the large majority of people are simply looking for a straightforward solution to their immediate needs. Just last week I was arguing with someone on [email protected] because it was the 5th community in a month created to talk about TV shows and movies.

        If the recommended alternative is bad somehow, then sure let’s move on. But if it is good enough, then please just let it be flexible and accept it.

        Embracing diversity and federation are the fundamental principles behind Fediverse to me.

        The code is open source, and you are welcome to run your own instance of Fediverser, and the recommendation database can be cloned or forked however you see fit.