There's !braves@fanaticus.social (there's a !baseball@fanaticus.social and other team subs there too). The team subs aren't really active yet, but that seems like the best place here for baseball right now. I'm also on the r/Braves discord, which is where most people from the subreddit are talking currently.
Reddit was never going to just shut down overnight, but it's more or less done for me (barring some sudden change with the API stuff, but even then I'd make an effort to use it less). I'll keep my account around and might occasionally go to it to look up specific things or visit more niche communities that don't have much of a presence here or on other alternatives yet, but I'm done with just generally browsing reddit or providing any content for them. I'm enjoying it here and hope the boost in activity allows for continued growth and filling out of communities for more specific topics.
As much as these are streamer bait, I do really enjoy watching them. It also has Bennett Foddy working on it, who popularized the whole idea.
There's also !baseball@fanaticus.social which has some activity. As for searching: for one, right now someone on your instance has to have manually added it before it shows up in search, but also searching federated instances has been a bit weird with the current server load of all the new people.
Seconded, I love UCH so much. One of my favorite multiplayer games, I've never had anything but a great time with it.
I hate that "review bombing" has come to be considered a bad thing. It's not always for a great reason, but it often is, and it's one of the most prominent ways normal people have to make their voice heard against large companies. That's obviously also the reason it's been put down so much, but it sucks.
I believe (could be wrong) that they just are against hosting NSFW communities on beehaw. You should still be able to view things from other instances if NSFW is enabled in your account settings.
I listen to a lot of podcasts, some good ones that cover gaming news are the Giant Bombcast and Nextlander.
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