Call for Moderators and Community Ambassadors: American Football
The NFL season is about to start and it would be nice to have as many people as possible participating on the communities from https://nfl.community. Being a topic-specific instance with closed registrations, I'm aware that it is harder to be discovered, so I'm writing here with the intent of both promoting a bit and to find enthusiasts joining in.
If you'd like to help the instance and the team communities grow, there are two ways to help:
Join https://fediverser.network, find the Lemmy community you want to help and apply to become a Community Ambassador. Community Ambassadors can add different sources of content and also send invites to "good" reddit users to migrate.
Become a moderator of your team community. The communities are still all low in traffic, so I guess the hardest part for the moderators will be in finding and posting the type of content that you'd like to see in the community, in order to set out its tone.
As always, if you have any questions don't hesitate to ask!
fediverser.network seems to be another tool to promote big instances, or at least those that "claim" it first. Most popular subreddits are locked to single community recommendation and doesn't allow recommending any others.
Are the recommendations bad? In most cases, the ongoing criteria are:
topic-specific instances over "generic" ones.
Activity.
No constant issues of downtime / poor moderation.
You are right though about the "locking" mechanism. I'm also not too happy about it. Maybe I remove the "locked" attribute and just hide the forms in case the recommended instances and communities are healthy.
The issue is that it recommends a single community when there are many on popular or generic topics. Having a single option as an alternative just showcases the issue of dominant instances breaking the Fediverse.
topic-specific instances over "generic" ones.
Community on the same topic can have widely different rules. From content they allow to simple things like preferred post structure. Why not have all of them that match the criteria?
Activity.
What amount of activity is considered enough?
No constant issues of downtime / poor moderation.
"poor moderation" can mean many things and will differ based on the person who has the power to decide it. Basic things like spam, illegal content and alike everyone can agree on, but more specific etiquette based rules are in the eye of the beholder, no?