Beautiful! How old?

I guess he got what he came for. He's go no reason to stick around except to get sanctioned.

That sucks. Is your game bot open source? Is there anything I can do to help?

🥲

We'll have the game bot up and running by the time the season rolls around!

Check out our baseball community's sidebar for your favorite team. Try searching !baseball@fanaticus.social (and give it a minute if someone on your instance hasn't already found us).

Fanaticus is a sports-only instance. We've ported over a game bot and have created communities for all the major sports teams. If you're interested in moderating one of the communities, just ask!

Maybe you can convince people that run US sports communities on general instances to move to your instance? 😁

I'm sure trying! Content is king though so that's what we're focusing on with the game bots.

We're out here! I'm an admin at fanaticus.social. We're a sports-only instance. We're the instance /u/Garrathian was talking about.

If you miss your sports and want to discuss them, come on over and check us out. We have all the major sports and their teams' communities set up and have ported the game bot (for baseball right now) over. We're planning on having the game bots ported over before the start of the other major sports' seasons.

Hi, I'm an admin at fanaticus.social. Sorry for the inconvenience! Game bots are an important way for us sports fans to interact with one another during games but I understand how annoying they can be if you don't care about the sport.

from plemmy import LemmyHttp

# must include protocol e.g. https://lemmy.world
pl = LemmyHttp("INSTANCE_NAME_HERE")

username = "USERNAME_HERE"
password = "PASSWORD_HERE"
pl.login(username, password)

fanaticus_communities = [
    "tampabayrays@fanaticus.social",
    "orioles@fanaticus.social",
    "nyyankees@fanaticus.social",
    "torontobluejays@fanaticus.social",
    "redsox@fanaticus.social",
    "minnesotatwins@fanaticus.social",
    "clevelandguardians@fanaticus.social",
    "whitesox@fanaticus.social",
    "motorcitykitties@fanaticus.social",
    "kcroyals@fanaticus.social",
    "texasrangers@fanaticus.social",
    "astros@fanaticus.social",
    "angelsbaseball@fanaticus.social",
    "mariners@fanaticus.social",
    "oaklandathletics@fanaticus.social",
    "braves@fanaticus.social",
    "miamimarlins@fanaticus.social",
    "phillies@fanaticus.social",
    "newyorkmets@fanaticus.social",
    "nationals@fanaticus.social",
    "buccos@fanaticus.social",
    "brewers@fanaticus.social",
    "reds@fanaticus.social",
    "chicubs@fanaticus.social",
    "cardinals@fanaticus.social",
    "azdiamondbacks@fanaticus.social",
    "sfgiants@fanaticus.social",
    "dodgers@fanaticus.social",
    "padres@fanaticus.social",
    "coloradorockies@fanaticus.social",
]

for comm in fanaticus_communities:
    print("Getting community: ", comm)
    commRes = pl.get_community(name=comm).json()
    if commRes and commRes['community_view']:
        commId = commRes['community_view']['community']['id']
        print("Blocking community: ", comm, " communityId: ", commId)
        pl.block_community(True, commId)
        print("Successfully blocked community: ", comm)
    else:
        print("Failed to find community: ", comm)

In the future, we are planning on adding the game bots for the other major sports as well (they're not in season now) but hopefully that will be a nice jumping off point for you.

Shameless plug for !baseball@fanaticus.social (check out our sidebar for the team-specific communities). We've got the game bots ported over and are working on improving them and adding new features.

I agree with !matt@lemmy.world though, the Venn diagram of sports fans and tech-savvy lemmy pioneers is pretty small. You can help by posting and commenting to attract more users. More content == more users (eventually).

Hi I'm an admin over at fanaticus.social! We've been hard at work porting the game bots over to lemmy. All 30 MLB teams have their bots configured and running now and we're working on rolling out the sidebar bots, adding some new features, and porting the other four major sports bots to lemmy as well.

Check out the sidebar in !baseball@fanaticus.social for links to your team's community.

😆 sorry about that! Baseball season is still very much on.

This issue was caused by the websockets replacing the current thread you were on with newly updated or created posts. Our game threads get updated frequently so they were constantly popping up in people's faces. We decreased the frequency of the updates pretty substantially in order to be less annoying to unrelated instances but it was still happening occasionally.

Now that we're all through with websockets it won't be an issue anymore!

Who's your team? Check out the sidebar on !baseball@fanaticus.social Fanaticus is a sports-only instance which helps keep us insulated from any defederation drama. We've got all the communities set up just waiting for our fellow fans to join us! We also have game bots and are actively developing new features.

If you're interesting in modding your team's community, just post in there asking. The community may seem bare right now but why a little TLC you can make it a home for your favorite team.