So, as of July 2023 we’ve got about 183 subscribers here on kbin.social, and probably another 50 scattered across the fediverse.

lemmy.world/c/cfb (KBin.social link) is not some juggernaut, but they’re at over 600 subs on their home instance, and probably another 100ish elsewhere? I will move my daily posting over there for, at least for a while.

Fanaticus.social is a thing now, too, but I think for now, while scraping /r/cfb is good for content to skim though, it’s maybe less good for fostering discussion.

  • g0d0fm15ch13f@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I think having a centralized forum on lemmy.world isn’t a bad idea while our community grows. We can always spread back out later. Right now it just feels weird having only like 4 or 5 active voices

    Edit: shameless plug for !cfbmemes@lemmy.world which I’ve posted literally 2 tenn themed image macros in but hey, you gotta start somewhere.

    • wjrii@kbin.socialOP
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, if I were the mod at kbin’s cfb I might feel differently, but I have no problem putting my daily post over on world. I really like fanaticus as an idea, and I’m impressed with how well the startrek instance is working, but with the community for any cfb discussion is already so small, wading through the stream of 3* commitment posts that got very little traction with a million redditors feels more daunting than welcoming.

      As an aside, cfbmemes should now federate to kbin.social, since I’ve subbed.

    • wjrii@kbin.socialOP
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      1 year ago

      Technically true, but federation works the other way too. I think there’s some benefit to new users getting a lot of bang for their buck in adding one community, and as long as there’s no particular reason to splinter, there’s no reason we can’t interface with l.w’s community from here in kbin. I also like to pull up a single “sub” and see its feed, and until some “multireddit” functionality or other magic is added to kbin/lemmy, that becomes tedious with a splintered set of comms/mags.

      I’m certainly not going to unsubscribe here, and TBH I still prefer kbin in a lot of small ways, but I will just post more of my low-effort links there.