Hello! Sorry for the inconvenience. It’s unfortunate that users can’t block entire instances in Lemmy currently but fanaticus does provide a service for those who want to keep up to date with their favorite sports team. This isn’t a novel idea, we actually implemented the same bots we enjoyed on Reddit.
If you’d like to cut down on the noise on your own feed you have a couple of options: you can disable bots in your personal settings so you won’t see any bot traffic or you can run a script I wrote that will add all of our game bots to your personal Blocklist.
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.
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 (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 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).
what is this and why is my feed spammed with nonsense?
Seriously, could you keep it to one community? I don’t feel like blocking each single community seperately.
[Meta] Test Post
This is a test post to see if lemmy.world is showing up on fanaticus.social.
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