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[–] rglullis@communick.news 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
  • Running the topic based instances are not the main costs. Even if I went to shut down Communick (I won't, because believe it or not it's getting close to break even) the last thing I would let go are the domains, which can/could be easily transferred to some organization.

  • I can make you moderator of the communities, so it would be one more reason to move there?

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I can make you moderator of the communities, so it would be one more reason to move there?

I already mod too many communities, there was a call last week that I declined.

At the moment the priority is to grow the community enough that's not only me posting.

Once we'll get there, we can discuss where to bring the community.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

At the moment the priority is to grow the community enough that’s not only me posting.

I'd be posting as well, and if you see the NFL communities, they are also getting some momentum from Mastodon users.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Also, as @sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al brought up some time ago, it's not soccer, it's football

But don't get another domain just for us

[–] rglullis@communick.news 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Buddy, you are running out of excuses... ;)

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just ask any European football fan how they call the game

[–] rglullis@communick.news 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I am not arguing that. I am just saying that this is a very lame reason to avoid using it.

If I had found any "football" or "footy" domain that costs less than an used car, I would have used it. But soccer was cheaper, and football@soccer is redundant and kind of senseless.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, it kind of irritates me now to have to go to /r/soccer on Reddit

That might be one way to get people there to give Lemmy a try "it's finally the proper name of the game"

[–] rglullis@communick.news 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nonsense. There is also /r/football, which is quite large and to me has more interesting discussion than /r/soccer and less obnoxious mods, but /r/soccer still maintains its dominance.

It's not the name that matters. It's the content and the match threads.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Wait, I thought that /r/football was about 🏈 and that's why they had to go to soccer 🤔

Really curious how this happened

It happened a while back. r/football actually sponsors a football team now, via some reddit program they won.