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How to make the Fediverse more appealing for following sports?? (communick.news)
submitted 4 days ago by rglullis@communick.news to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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I still believe that getting access to sports news and commentary would be one of the sure-fire ways to get more people in the Fediverse. But even after all these years, Reddit, Twitter and Instagram obviously completely dominate the space.

In the US, the NFL is starting in a couple of weeks and the NBA will come back in October. There is also the European Football (Soccer) leagues which started this month, so the thought came to mind again: what could we have that could make the conversation around professional sports more interesting...

  • Specific apps or sites that act as a multi-platform client, to let you follow short clips from Loops, or posts from specific communities or athletes?

  • Real time scores and match threader bots?

  • A (local, user-controlled) recommendation algorithm to manage different news sources?

  • Integration with fantasy leagues?

Maybe I am barking at the wrong tree and/or the majority of people here do not care about it enough, but I would like to hear some ideas to see if there is anything we could do.

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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

LiveThreadBot@sopuli.xyz did provide live scores for me during the FIFA World Cup. I did try to come out and comment on a couple threads. So a score of 1.1 out of 2 on this criteria?

[–] fastfinge@rblind.com 3 points 4 days ago

Interestingly, on my instance LiveThreadBot's edits were way behind. I'm an admin, so I could check our incoming queue and see them building up. We're on quite a large server (quad-core, 64 gigs of ram, etc) in a data center with excellent connectivity. So if we were having that problem, I assume a lot of instances were. For sports a backlog of five or six edits that your instance hasn't processed yet just won't work.

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Unfortunately it doesn't work anymore, see the pinned post on !football@sopuli.xyz

[–] Quokka@quokk.au 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I’m going to try to add this functionality into PyLova.

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Thank you, but IIUC the issue is with avoiding ESPN controls, that's not on the Piefed side

[–] Quokka@quokk.au 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We don't have to use EPSN, there are other services. Could even merge multiple of them.

How did you previously call the bot?

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)