Hey, just wanted to thank you for all the work you’ve put into filling out this instance! It hasn’t gone unnoticed!

Instead of waffling on which instance I should try to create the baseball communities I wanted to see on lemmy, I decided to start fanaticus so people wouldn’t have to make tough decisions.

The thanks go to you for starting this instance! I joined Reddit to follow college football and when I found this instance I saw its potential to become the default hub for sports-related discussion on Lemmy.

Additionally, given the recent Beehaw de-federation drama I think it was a good choice to make this sports-only instance. If we remain on topic, I don’t expect we’ll be affected by any de-federation.

This is an important point that many Lemmy users might struggle to understand. I find the possibility of de-federation to be detrimental to the popularity/sustainability of this platform. That said, having an instance dedicated to sports talk will insulate us from potential Lemmy fractures resulting from conflicts between different instance admins. It would definitely suck to be a beehaw.org account and unexpectedly not seeing new posts/replies on [email protected] or [email protected].

Thanks again for starting this all up and letting me add football/college communities here!