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Thanks for setting this up! Im a bit late to this but I think everything looks good and on the right track here. Im very interested to see how it grows! Ever since I joined Lemmy, Ive been wanting to be more involved with the communities more than I did with reddit where I never commented. Ive never been a mod or anything but if you need anything Im always down to learn and help anyway I can! Go Sounders!
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A place for Sounders fans in the Fediverse. Discussion, analysis, match threads, and more.
Looking for mods, banner images, and new ideas!
Who are the Sounders
- Seattle's MLS team, born in 1974 and in MLS since 2009
- Winners of the 2022 CONCACAF Champions League, 2016 and 2019 MLS Cups, 2014 MLS Supporters Shield, and 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2014 US Open Cups
Community Guidelines
These are some proposed guidelines to get us started, but open to discussion!
- Hot takes and strong opinions go hand in hand with fandom, especially with a supporter community as passionate as the Sounders'. Still: keep it supportive! Remember that players are people and our boys bleed blue and green, even on an off day. Overwhelming negativity is not an attractive look.
- Abusive language directed towards anyone - including opposing teams - is not acceptable. Similarly, racist, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic, or other hateful language or content will not be tolerated.
- This community is meant for Sounders-related discussions and content. We welcome fans of all teams to share in these discussions. Trolling or brigading by opposition fan groups, however, will be removed. Similarly, encouraging the trolling or brigading of other communities is not acceptable.
- While most content will be Sounders-focused, we welcome posts & discussion about any Seattle- or Washington-based soccer teams (e.g. OL Reign, Defiance, Ballard FC)
Related Communities
- OL Reign: [email protected]
- Ballard FC: [email protected]
- MLS: [email protected]
- Football: [email protected]
Banner image credit: SoundersBruce on Wikimedia Commons (License: CC BY-SA 4.0)
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I second this, thank you! I’m new to the fediverse too, since June 12 anyway, and am missing so many of my niche and local subs. Similarly to OP, I’ll try to be less of a lurker this time around.
That sounds great! I never posted a single thing on Reddit either, but this feels much more akin to my days on bulletin boards 15-20 years ago. Please post!!
Love that you've set this up. I'm thinking about trying to set up an RSS feed bot to repost Sounders content to the community: Sounders At Heart, Nos Audietus and the Seattle Times to start maybe? Would that be something we'd be interested in, just to jumpstart the community and get some content going?
I'm not opposed to giving it a try - I've been more or less doing that by hand. What do others think?
Whether it's by hand or by bot, I do worry a little bit about drowning out user submitted posts as we get going. Over on some other communities it seems like user posts can be buried quickly under an avalanche of goal vids, for instance, but maybe that problem will self correct. Thoughts?
If you know how to set up bots, do you have any idea how we could get an automated match thread bot going?
I do. The general idea would be to grab a Google Cloud Platform free tier hobby server and deploy https://github.com/janschlatter/feddit-matchbot on it. I'll try with !reign_fc and once I get it working, I'll check back in about adding it here.
Sounds freat! I didn't realize that you had started [email protected] - nice! Link added to the sidebar here and will be heading over that way for match threads for sure
Revised the logo and banner image - maybe a bit better? Still very open to better ideas!
I love the logo! Thanks for setting this place up :)
Thanks! I am not an image editing expert by any stretch so very open to improvements as we grow!
First off, thank you for creating this!
I can’t volunteer as mod but one request: match threads! They gather a lot on user engagement and are fun for those of us stuck at home!
Hey, somebody else is here! I will definitely try to get the match threads going, starting tomorrow. If one is missing, though, feel free to start one.
There are some rudimentary bots being put together to facilitate auto-posting of match threads in some of the other communities along with score updates, lineups, etc. If those look like they're going to work and I or someone else is able to figure out how to run them, perhaps we could set that up too.
Haha it’s like wandering around an empty amusement park. I’ll try to attract people over here from Reddit and SounderAtHeart.
I expect things to pick up somewhat over time and as sync and boost for Lemmy launch. We'll see, though!
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