Thought this required its own post as we might need to create a new community.
I managed to get in contact with the creator of the community (same username on reddit). I don’t think he’s coming back to lemmy. He’s offered to delete the community if that frees up the name for us to create an identical community on lemmy.world. I don’t know if that’s possible or if the community can be transferred to another user instead.
Staying on lemmy.world seems like a good idea imo as new arrivals will gravitate towards that.
Anyone have any ideas of the best way forward? Anyone fancy being an admin/mod lol?
Edit: He might not be permanently gone. Just coming back every once in a while.
Here’s the conversation if anyone is interested.
https://i.ibb.co/sPQgCc0/Screenshot-20230704-124927-Boost.jpg
Would it make more sense to have a football/soccer instance, like maybe feddit.football? Then take load off the general instance here. Could have all the club communities and ones for world cups etc…
With the way Lemmy functions, having a dedicated football/soccer instance should be the right move.
Keep this one open with a redirected pinned post to the new instance/community and lock it.
This would be the ideal. Star Trek has its own instance, startrek.website, and it’s better for it. I’m hoping that more specialised instances attract the more passionate fans for specific interests and the general instances end up more surface/entry level for people curious about whatever subject it might be
This is a great idea! Football is so big that it makes sense that it should have it’s own instance. And every club can have it’s community.
Honestly I think that is an excellent idea, and at some point someone (like football365) would probably pay a lot of money to take over it (yaay!). Theres a classic Catch-22 - lemmy doesn’t have the critical mass to bother spinning up a dedicated server, but if it’s not done now/soon it will be too late. I’d love to help, but don’t have time.
The most comprehensive sports instance I know of is https://fanaticus.social/
Maybe that’s the best place?
Hey guys, sorry I’ve been absent.
Any volunteers to be mods/admins reply here and I’ll see if I can get you added.
I can help out if needed, but I only use Lemmy on a third party app so I’m not sure if mod tools are available.
I’ll vouch for PoppinKREAM as a fantastic mod candidate for whatever it’s worth.
Considering how active they were on /r/soccer, I think they’re a great choice.
(Assuming it’s not someone else who claimed the username hahaha)
I can volunteer. Though I have never been a mod so don’t know what it entails
I hope we can grow somthing here. Done with Reddit but addicted to football! I dont know if it’s possible, but transfering the community to another user definitely sounds like the best option, considering this one already has 3k subscribers.
I kind of feel similar. Keeping the same community seems like the best option.
He’s offered to add some mods if that sorts out any issues. Is anyone the mod of another community and knows about mods/admins? Can mods do everything an admin can (besides deleting the community) in case u/MushroomMan89 is away for a while?
I can help. I mod https://lemmy.world/c/ussoccer and https://lemmy.world/c/mls currently
Thanks. I’ve sent a message to u/MushroomMan89 to see if he can add you as a mod.
Best course of action is to show proof of that conversation to an instance admin. They should be able to help out.
Yeah admins can transfer ownership of communities. Ruud might be too busy with the servers on fire at the moment though. Ideally we’d have a Community Requests sub like on Lemmy.ml
I hope we can have the same rules and posts as in soccer on Reddit. It’s much much better to have a defined way of posting.
