Comment on The small scale of Lemmy's active user base is never more evident than in the absence of active members in all the sports related communities.

chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Leftists might like sports but hate commercial teams and sponsorhips. Enes Kanter was banned from NBA for talking about human rights as example.

  Also most sports fans on lemmy are also a computer fans since it takes some mesding around to setup so that might be why those communities are always big.

  I am interested Atli Cirit sport and martial arts look fun to watch too but why would I search for those communities when I know there is a huge programming community that I can also put my time into.

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  • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s just been my experience that a lot of athletes and a lot of sports fans tend to be more right wing and that a lot of leftists don’t like sports at all, even when there are no pro teams involved (pickup leagues etc).

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    • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      and that a lot of leftists don’t like sports at all

      Is that your experience per se, or have most of the leftists you’ve seen been nerds, and you’re just noticing the much more well-documented trend of nerds disliking sport?

      Personally I happen to be the kind of nerd who loves sport. My favourites are triathlon (and its constituent sports) and HEMA, but I also like professional spectator sports cricket and rugby league.

      HEMA’s a bit of an odd one since it tends to attract nerds more than people who are fans of more traditional sports. When I skip training to watch a big game of league, I definitely get light-hearted but at least somewhat sincere “sportsball” comments from regulars who like doing HEMA but aren’t interested in other “normal” sports. But my other sporting interests are far more conventional. This, while being a software engineer by trade, and also having more nerdy hobbies like D&D (actually, even nerdier: I play Pathfinder these days), real-time strategy games, and…well, being on Lemmy.

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      • GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        also having more nerdy hobbies like D&D (actually, even nerdier: I play Pathfinder these days

        pffffffffffffffft, those aren’t even nerdy. Those are like bringing kraft cheddar to a fancy cheese party and saying you’re a connoisseur. Let me know when you want to break out the real nerd braggadocio and start in on the fan-made white wolf spinoffs, or the burning wheel good times.

        ;)

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      • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I did qualify my entire comment with:

        It’s just been my experience that…

        So yes. And most of the nerds I’ve met lean right, not left. The leftists I’ve met tended to study the Arts (English, sociology, history, etc) whereas the right wing types all studied math, engineering, computer science.

        I do know a pair of right-leaning philosophy students though they claim to feel like outliers in a program that’s an outlier (the other way) at a school that’s mostly STEM programs.

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    • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Personally I have no love for sports but my partner does we are both quite far left so I don’t think that really has anything to do with it.

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