Comment on Thoughts on bringing sportbots.xyz to Lemmy?
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
How would it work, in terms of number of bots? Would it be one bot per mirrored account?
If they only post to relevant communities (such as !Football@lemm.ee or !nba@lemmy.world ), that could help to have more activity.
There would probably need to be some fine-tuning about the number of posts. Some reporters post a lot, that could potentially flood those communities.
rglullis@communick.news 2 days ago
Yes. There is no information on sportbots about how many accounts they have listed, but I’m guess it’s in the “high hundreds - low thousands” range.
With options (2) and (3), I could come up with strategies to solve this. We could, e.g, repost only what has reached a certain number of likes on Twitter, or limit one bot to post only once per hour/day. Etc.
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
That would be nice!
jqubed@lemmy.world 2 days ago
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 fanaticus.social would be interested in hosting these? It seems like their goal is to become Lemmy’s sports home.
rglullis@communick.news 2 days ago
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: