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We’ll have the game bot up and running by the time the season rolls around!

Maybe you can convince people that run US sports communities on general instances to move to your instance? 😁

I’m sure trying! Content is king though so that’s what we’re focusing on with the game bots.

Hi, I’m an admin at fanaticus.social. Sorry for the inconvenience! Game bots are an important way for us sports fans to interact with one another during games but I understand how annoying they can be if you don’t care about the sport.

from plemmy import LemmyHttp

# must include protocol e.g. https://lemmy.world
pl = LemmyHttp("INSTANCE_NAME_HERE")

username = "USERNAME_HERE"
password = "PASSWORD_HERE"
pl.login(username, password)

fanaticus_communities = [
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
]

for comm in fanaticus_communities:
    print("Getting community: ", comm)
    commRes = pl.get_community(name=comm).json()
    if commRes and commRes['community_view']:
        commId = commRes['community_view']['community']['id']
        print("Blocking community: ", comm, " communityId: ", commId)
        pl.block_community(True, commId)
        print("Successfully blocked community: ", comm)
    else:
        print("Failed to find community: ", comm)

In the future, we are planning on adding the game bots for the other major sports as well (they’re not in season now) but hopefully that will be a nice jumping off point for you.

Shameless plug for [email protected] (check out our sidebar for the team-specific communities). We’ve got the game bots ported over and are working on improving them and adding new features.

I agree with [email protected] though, the Venn diagram of sports fans and tech-savvy lemmy pioneers is pretty small. You can help by posting and commenting to attract more users. More content == more users (eventually).

😆 sorry about that! Baseball season is still very much on.

This issue was caused by the websockets replacing the current thread you were on with newly updated or created posts. Our game threads get updated frequently so they were constantly popping up in people’s faces. We decreased the frequency of the updates pretty substantially in order to be less annoying to unrelated instances but it was still happening occasionally.

Now that we’re all through with websockets it won’t be an issue anymore!

I think you replied to the wrong comment. My instance hosts communities for sports :)

Join us for all your sports talk over at https://fanaticus.social! We’ve got communities for all the major sports and their teams.

I also spent the past week forking the popular game day bot, redball, in order to bring game bots to lemmy! There are still a couple of kinks I’m working out but I’ve begun rolling them out to the teams’ communities, starting with the baseball communities.

Check out:

• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]

And all the teams-specific communities!

[email protected] enjoy! Let me know if you’d like to be a mod.

Oh. Good question. I don’t think so. Which one would you like me to create? Wrestling? Can I make you a mod?

We’ve got game day threads at fanaticus! I forked the popular bot from reddit and made it compatible with lemmy.

We’ve got game day threads at fanaticus! I forked the popular bot from reddit and made it compatible with lemmy.

Come on over! Everyone’s free to start their own community!

Not that I know of but I’ve found a couple of stats pages in my travels:

• https://the-federation.info/
• https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list

Be the change you want to see in the world! And also share your graphs with the rest of us 😁

They have an env var for an Open Telemetry endpoint in the docker config.

This is an issue that the dev team is actively working on and (I believe) it’ll be a part of the 0.18.0 release.

There’s a hacky workaround some admins in the matrix chat implemented @[email protected] – set a cron job to restart your lemmy back-end every hour or so. Not sure what the impact would be on a bigger instance like this but the restart only take a few seconds on my smaller one and it keeps my feeds fresh.

I’ve posted about this before as it relates to mod tools.¹

The search part isn’t all that difficult, there are open source search engines that are easy enough for admins to configure a decent search feature. The more difficult issue is aggregating the data from all our instances to a single source where we can make queries with those existing search engine tools.

I am going to spend some time this weekend working on a proof of concept for a search engine for mod tools. Big picture solution is:

1. Instance admins regularly dump anonymized (i.e. no PII) post and comment data to a public source (possibly torrent, possibly sftp)
2. Other instance admins download each others data and feed it into their search db (e.g. Elasticsearch)
3. Mods & users create tools using this data

BTW: this isn’t a novel idea:

• This is what pushshift is for reddit (check out their FAQ/wiki). We’re missing mod tools big time and searching/aggregating is huge part of mod tools.
• Up until recently, like last week, Stack Exchange provided a regular dump of their data to the Internet Archive for posterity’s sake

EDIT: Linked my OG post on the subject ^{[1](https://fanaticus.social/post/1955)}

I’m pretty sure you can create your own bootstrap theme. If someone makes an old.reddit theme for Lemmy I’ll add it to my instance.

PSA: you can choose your default theme in your profile settings. I’m pretty sure the themes available are determined by your home instance’s options

Just chipping in to promote my own lemmy instance: I created [email protected] and communities for the other 30 MLB teams to replace the subreddits we left behind.

Link to the wired article with more details on the leaked Tesla docs. OP’s article references this one at the end.