You’re welcome!

🥲

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

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.

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 = [
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]",
]

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 [email protected] (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 [email protected] 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 [email protected] 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!

[email protected] enjoy! Let me know if you’d like to be a mod.

Oh. Good question. I don’t think so. Which one would you like me to create? Wrestling? Can I make you a mod?

We’ve got game day threads at fanaticus! I forked the popular bot from reddit and made it compatible with lemmy.

We’ve got game day threads at fanaticus! I forked the popular bot from reddit and made it compatible with lemmy.

Come on over! Everyone’s free to start their own community!