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…
That’s the beauty of lemmy. Even leagues or clubs could have their own instance.
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
The most comprehensive sports instance I know of is https://fanaticus.social/
Maybe that’s the best place?
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.
Football maybe big but Lemmy is not big enough to have active users in here, let alone individual clubs or leagues. Too much fragmentation is not good for the current state of Lemmy
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.
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.
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 would try contacting one of the admins here and explain the situation to them. They should be able to add you as an mod on c/football, if they think that’s a good solution. I think @ruud is one of the admins.
You could also ask the mod to add you as a mod. He should be able to click on the three dots of this post and see an option to make you a mod.
Either one of those is better that than having the mod wipe out this community so it can be recreated. That seems kinda crazy.
