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For the first time since 2019, the sport’s collective batting average has risen year over year, improving from .243 last season to .248 heading into Wednesday’s games. The number of errors has fallen to the lowest tally per game in recorded history, 0.51, part of a gradual decline dating back to the 1970s. The league-wide fielding percentage, .986, is also an all-time high.

“Everything’s a hit,” Angels pitcher Patrick Sandoval said. “I have a little conspiracy about it: That they are telling the scorers to be more lenient with the hits so they can be like, ‘Oh, the new rules work. You have more hits.’”

cross-posted from: https://fanaticus.social/post/1955

Hi all, just wanted to get the discussion around mod tools and a pushshift for lemmy started. Sorry if this is a duplicate but I haven't been able to find any discussion about this topic.

If one thing we learned about reddit and third party API is that mod tools are of the utmost important for developing a thriving community. Pushshift is a powerful tool that allows its users to query aggregated data in their workflows.

The data lemmy users create (posts and comments) is valuable. Moderators use it to make informed decisions and improve the experience of their communities; researchers use it to build their own studies; LLM use it for training; internet searchers use it to find answers and opinions written by real people.

I think as admins we need to be clear up-front about the licensing of the content created on our site. I plan on specifying a Creative Commons license for my instance and would like to get some opinions on which would be best for the community.

Once properly licensed, I think it would be in the lemmy community's best interest to provide our community's data in aggregate (scrubbed of PII of course) for all those that need access to it to build tools for the community. People interested in our data will attempt to retrieve it anyway, whether through scraping or direct API access, so it is not only beneficial for our communities to make this data more easily accessible, but also for our servers.

Finally, once we establish our best practices for aggregating our data, we should begin work on building/forking/integrating with pushshift for lemmy. That will allow developers to build the mod tools our communities need to thrive.

TL;DR: establish open license for our content, provide access to PII-scrubbe data in bulk, build pushshift for lemmy, create better mod tools, (don't) profit.

There are plenty of subreddits I left behind that I would like to see migrated to lemmy instances.

What do ya'll think about creating the communities I want to be migrated and, this is the part I don't feel great about, whole-sale copying the existing configuration of the communities i.e. all the side-bar content (rules, wikis, etc.)?

On the one hand, it seems like a good way to create continuity for users but on the other hand, it feels like stealing. Also, I am not necessarily the person who should be running these communities. I just want to create the spaces for people to move into and hand them off to those who want to run them and contribute content.

What do ya'll think? How have you been approaching a migration from your favorite subreddits to your instance communities?