You are allowed to discuss piracy. You aren’t allowed to facilitate piracy (I.e. providing links to pirated content). It is illegal in the country where this instance is hosted.

Not really - it isn’t prediction, it is early detection. Interpretive AI (finding and interpreting patterns) is way ahead of generative AI.

Got watch the threads at /c/philly_test@fanaticus.social. This link isn’t working on lemmy.world, but your instance should be ok. I’m testing the bot using the Texans / Pats game today.

Grr, federation is broken. I’m going to be testing on that site, so you’ll want to sign up over there, or on another instance. Lemmy.world is too unstable (and Cloudflare is doing weird things to some bots) to test here. https://fanaticus.social/c/redball

Sorry, that link should have been this

For anyone stumbling across this thread: discussion of the port of the Redball bot (the one used for most MLB an NFL threads on Reddit) can be found here for the latest news on the bot, and to provide any feedback.).

You’ll want to subscribe to this community for the latest news on the bot, and to provide any feedback.

You’ll want to subscribe to this community for the latest news on the bot, and to provide any feedback.

Do you want threads for every game in /c/nfl? It can probably be done, though that’s kind of crazy…

Yeah, I was able to get it doing this in about an hour: https://fanaticus.social/post/248516

I’ll get the rest of it cleaned up and we’ll have it running on Saturday to see how it goes.

The code will be up on GitHub as soon as it is working. You can check in on philly_philly@lemmy.world or philly_bot@fanaticus.social if you want to see what progress I’m making. I’m planning to get it working, then run it for the first preseason game. If it doesn’t blow up, I’ll point you to the code. I can also run the bot for your team (the code supports configuring multiple teams) if you want.

Let me see how fast I can bang it out - I don’t see anything that needs to change except swapping API calls. The MLB bot is much more complex than the NFL one, so it should go smoothly.

On your edit, I was using old.lemmy.world which has a very broken inbox - I found your message about the baseball bot, but not NFL. Not sure why it didn’t pop up in Memmy…we’ll need to find something more reliable.

I ask because we’ve pretty much finished the Redball bot which does the Baseball threads, and expect the port of the existing NFL bot to go pretty smoothly. Let me know if you want to leverage that instead.

Which bot code are you using? Did you roll your own?

While I agree there should be functionality to propagate changes to a community between instances when the host is offline, there is no practical way to share administrative control of a community. Any decision by an administrator to sanction a community or defederate an instance will just result in exactly the fragmentation you fear.

The real solution is for small groups of communities with similar interests to gather on separate instances with few or no users. Meanwhile, other instances gather users with few or no local communities. This maximizes the benefits of cacheing community content while minimizing the impact of defederation. If a community host can no longer be maintained by its owner, that ownership can be easily transferred without transferring the burden of hosting hundreds of communities or supporting user logins.

If the mods can agree on policy, there is absolutely no reason to have two communities. Shut one down and use the other.

Edit: can someone explain to me what the difference between synchronizing two communities and subscribing to a federated community is? I mean, that’s exactly the point of federation.

No, and the difference between Beehw and Lemmy.world is why. Different people have different views about moderation and what is acceptable content.

There are two solutions to the real problem of duplicate content:

1. Multireddit - like functionality for grouping similar content.
2. Making crossposting a reference to the original post, not a copy. Mods would need to be able to block crossposts from specific communities, and remove crossposts to their sub.

The irony that this story was posted by a bot…

Bots that don’t identify as such count towards active users. There have been a number of bot purges.