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.

Submitted ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨11111one11111@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨showerthoughts@lemmy.world⁩

Its rhe only thing I wish could change about my experience using Lemmy, for more active users in the communities like NFL or NHL and the affiliated team pages of those sports. I haven’t had any social media in decades, my main source for sporting news breaks up until 1-2 years ago was Reddit.

I love the small community that makes up Lemmy. As someone just posted, it feels like a small town community. I like the absence of corporate shills and ads and bots.

I will prolly spend more time this coming year settling on a 2ndary source for sports news from sources similar to sleeper app but it would be so nice if the Lemmy sporting communities blew up so I could keep everything aggregated to one source.

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dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
And all I want is to never see sports related communities. So I guess I win there…

Unfortunately I also never want to see anything that mentions anime or manga and in that department it’s serious whackamole for me.

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madame_gaymes@programming.dev ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
You know, Lemmy is powered by the users. The sports community will never grow if no one is here to grow it. Most people that jumped ship to build and grow Lemmy are techies, and likely not interested in sports all that much.

You just planted the seed, will you also be a watering can?

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- Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  This is so dismissive.
  
  I spent a full year posting to !leagueoflegends@lemmy.world and interaction there is still minimal to dead.
  
  It’s not really the starting of communities that needs help. We need more people to be the second and third person to join and help communities that someone else is trying to start.
  
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  - dragonfucker@lemmy.nz ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    The problem there might be that people hate league of legends
    
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  - madame_gaymes@programming.dev ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I didn’t claim it would be easy or even a guaranteed success
    
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- shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  We are in at the ground level of Lemmy. A lot of people like OP are passive consumers, but now is the time to step up, get out of your comfort zone and start building the communities you want to see. You might have to hustle a little bit
  
  If you do start up a community you can link it like this:
  
  !weightroom@sh.itjust.works
  
  Here’s a totally random community about strength and hypertrophy training for example
  
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  - Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Nah, I’m just gonna do what I’m doing. Commenting on stuff I like or am interested in and that’s it. I’m way too anti-social to do something like building a community.
    
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- lordnikon@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  This 100%, it’s even harder when someone puts a posting bot in a sub and expects people to show up. The best communities started by someone creating a sub and posting things they found interesting. Treating it like a personal link archive. Then people would add to the discussion after finding you. If you are posting for a few weeks and then just gives up. It just makes the problem worse. Since now people have to sift through a bunch of dead communities on multiple instances all named the same.
  
  It has to be built organically it’s like people with video channels on YouTube or peer tube. Making your first video and if it doesn’t do well they quit. Most successful creators made tons of videos before they took off. They kept at it because they were making the videos for themselves for just the sake of self expression as their first priority and the views will come.
  
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  - njm1314@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    This is kind of a problem in the NFL Community actually. There’s one user, I don’t know if it’s a bot or not, who just shotguns like 10 to 15 post at a time. It washes out any discussion in the entire community.
    
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- 11111one11111@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  You just planted the seed, will you also be a watering can?
  
  Im not implying there is a lack of content just a lack of active users to fuel discussions. I leave a comment on every NFL post that I have some input or opinion on. Like I said to another comment in this thread there seems to either be a bot or a dedicated mod who is periodically supplying content in batches of posts. So maybe once a week or so (maybe once a month in the off seadon) the same user name will make a bunch of posts for all the news for that week.
  
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  - whostosay@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Dude make an NHL community and I’m in
    
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Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Did you see that ludicrous display last night?

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- Narwhalrus@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  What was Wenger thinking, sending Walcott on that early?
  
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  - Nasan@sopuli.xyz ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    The thing about Arsenal is they always try to walk it in.
    
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- OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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  (The original site, vectorbelly, is not loading for me, but fortunately I found this backup)
  
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- 11111one11111@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I did not. What’d I miss?
  
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  - Thorry84@feddit.nl ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    These are all nerds who don’t follow sportball most likely. They are quoting the TV show “The IT Crowd” where the one of main characters Moss pretends to know about sports.
    
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socsa@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
HAHA SPORTSBALL GUYS.
! DAE HANDEGG????1

PLEASE CLAP

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- Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Yeah but did you try Linux
  
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- misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I was gonna make the sportsball comment and you crushed my spirit.
  
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- 11111one11111@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Did you have a stroke?
  
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possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I like to pretend that all the Lemmy communities have a unique participants but in really it is just the same people on the same few communities.

I also feel like we need some Lemmy specific lingo. Reddit has subs I wonder what Lemmy has. Communities is just to long to type out.

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- daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨49⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
  It takes time to adjust to that
  
  Coming from Reddit I was used to that level of crow anonymously and here people be remembering what you said in that other posts.
  
  I have find out that since noticing that I tend to be more careful with what I post.
  
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- TisI@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
  People refer to them as coms or comms.
  
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- daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
  what about subs? lemmy subs
  
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haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Crazy idea: use a bot? A lot of communities already do it to help with lack of folks where the techies dont regularly post. You can still get your news here and you will likely attract other folks like you (maybe tell them over on other places that we now have sports news). Just trying to help

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- possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Please no
  
  That’s not real content. It is just lots and lots of spam.
  
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  - haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Thanks for your opinion. Do you post in that community? Do you have a better idea? If you can answer both questions with no I would ask what differs your post from spam.
    
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  - Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    For news and sport it could be useful.
    
    Tag it as bot generated. Don’t allow bot comments.
    
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3dmvr@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Literally just post everything you find interesting and upvote elsewhere

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FancyPantsFIRE@lemm.ee ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Lemmy is full of a bunch of older neckbeards, based on my observations.

This is just one narrow view on things, tho.

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nomecks@lemmy.wtf ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
!superbowl@lemmy.world is very active

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- Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  When are the owls gonna play sportsball?
  
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  - paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Hoot hoot, hike!
    
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- 11111one11111@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Hmmmmmm is it tho, WHO would be active there and WHO would only wanna talk about one game once a year? Lol im just assuming its a community dedicated to owls.
  
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- Upgrayedd1776@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  all fake, dont buy in to big bird insidiousness, they are not real
  
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LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I think it’s also just tricky because sports fans tend to want to follow discussion of their team, which splits for example the soccer/football community into hundreds of sub-communities. I used to follow r/panthers (I am a long suffering charlotte home team supporter) but such a community doesn’t exist on lemmy. Similarly, you don’t really see active individual video game communities on lemmy even though that is more up the alley of the average lemmy user.

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- 11111one11111@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Yeah it does. I mean ill double check but im pretty sure im subscribed to all 32 individual communities for NFL and NHL teams. Some are more active than the actual community for the league the team is in.
  
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scytale@lemm.ee ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Thankfully our !nba@lemmy.world community is semi-active. Obviously not as much as r/nba, but we do have active mods and game day threads.

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nokturne213@sopuli.xyz ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Be the change you want to see. Of your visible posts, 0 of them are in the communities you want to see active. The same goes for your last week or so of comments.

I am not a sports fan, but I have been loving watching the PWHL. So much so that I took over modding !womenshockey@reddthat.com I post the score of every game (granted this season there are only 6 teams). I have started to post video highlights, I also am cross posting to !hockey@lemmy.ca however the reception there is decidedly frigid. The community has about doubled in size since I started posting regularly.

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- mean_bean279@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  If you scroll just a little pass the surface level of their account you can see that OP has posted a dozen times in the Bills community.
  
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  - nokturne213@sopuli.xyz ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I likely have that community blocked. I looked with an alt account that I did not think had anything blocked. Oops.
    
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- 11111one11111@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I hope you only spent the time scolling posts cuz that seems like a long way to go to verify what I explained in my post if you scrolled thru all the comments I post looking for the cast time I posted/commented in NFL or Bills communities lol. I know its been a long time cuz if memory serves it would’ve been in last years off season.
  
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Stovetop@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Lemmy is also primarily used by super nerds who don’t care about sportsball. Not enough normies here compared to Reddit.

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- 11111one11111@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Which is what I find odd because every gamer and nerd I know is also interested in sports or at the very least interested in fantasy sports leagues. Might just be my area tho where the whole community and all walks of life get together to watch the Bills and Sabres play.
  
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NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Yeah, I try to engage on the sports posts because there isn’t much going on in these comms. But I’m hopeful we can get some growth eventually

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FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’ll take two dozen folks in the NFL sub-lemmies over the thousand brain-dead douchebags we’d get in comparable communities on Reddit.

Quality over quantity, bitch.

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- Soggy@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Ok but there’s zero movement in a lot of hobby communities here, and I’m not talking about niche interests. There cannot be quality when the quantity is none.
  
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some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Maybe Lemmy has a decent amount of users who are more inclined to nerd stuff like Linux and frisbee? I don’t care for sports or cars or other “cool” dude stuff. But I love computers and books and frisbee (which I don’t get to throw nearly enough). This just got me thinking. I’m gonna actively try to get some friends together to toss the bee. In my forties. Like we were in our teens. Thanks for inspiring me.

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- Upgrayedd1776@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  or used to be into sports then gambling became legal and feel its less real and sympathy for friends struggling with gambling now
  
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  - socsa@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    This is kind of where I am. Gambling has killed any authenticity in the fandom to the point where if I watch a game with friends they are just all on their phones cons
    
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- Albbi@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I’m in my 40s too and just finished playing spring league Ultimate Frisbee. It’s was a ton of fun, but I did get a lot of inflammation in my knees.
  
  I also use Linux a lot, but also wish there’s was more sports talk on Lemmy, especially NHL. I thought more people woukd jump ship off reddit after the 3rd party apps were banished.
  
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carlossurf@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Yup I really want a nba sub please someone put in the work I’ll like every post lol

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- pmk@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  That someone is you
  
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abdominable@lemm.ee ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Counterpoint: as soon as sports and their related normies became popular and took over Reddit, it went to complete shit.

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- 11111one11111@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Lol ok. So reddit went to shit 10-15 years ago? Breezing over the opinionated over generalization, even if it was the case it wasn’t true for the individual subreddits. R/BuffaloBills was still an amazing community with amazing user base even at the point of my leaving reddit. My proudest moment of being a Bills fans and being apart of a community was every time r/buffalobills and billsmafia raised millions on top of millions of dollars for Osheas Children’s hospital, Andy Dalton’s charity and Damar Hamlin"s charity.
  
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partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Does your sport have a separate meme/shitposting community? If not that may be the missing component. Being able to both talk about the sport and make fun of parts of it are highly engaging.

Formula 1 seems to do decently here on Lemmy with its news and commentary community:

!formula1@lemmy.world with nearly 10k subscribers.

But importantly there’s also a place for shitposting and meming for the sport in a separate community:

!formuladank@lemmy.world with 4.1k subscribers.

So for every one subscriber to the main community there is about 1 subscription to the meme community.

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- 11111one11111@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I dont think so. Unfortunately NFL and NHL memes arent as big as other sports meme c9mmunities cuz of the helmets not allowing for much expression without any animation. I could see NBA or FIFA (and all other soccer/futball leagues) having a much better shot at having an affiliated meme community.
  
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pepperjohnson@lemm.ee ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
As a Sabres fan, I don’t have much to say lol

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- 11111one11111@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  There is only one thing to say: Image
  
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IndustryStandard@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I cannot explain why but small Lemmy communities with unique content do not seem to get favored enough by the algorithm.

One of the most unique Lemmy communities is lemmy.sdf.org/c/funhole and it rarely gets featured.

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- JPAKx4@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Well it’s not much of an algorithm, it’s mostly about votes or comments depending on your selected filter. If you want niche things you need to subscribe to communities and engage with it.
  
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TheWeirdestCunt@lemm.ee ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
The F1 communities are fairly active but TBF it’s mostly because a few people regularly post news articles

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OmegaLemmy@discuss.online ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Imagine if some random medium sized sports forum decided to move/switch to Lemmy? Would be cool I guess.

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- possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Careful what you wish for
  
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hedge_lord@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Sometimes I wish that I was into sports, it seems very fun! I feel like I would need to know people irl who are into sports in order to get into sports though. Are sports memes a big thing? I feel like those should/could be a big thing.

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- fuzzzerd@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Back on reddit, there was at least one sub dedicated to memes I between just a single division (nfcnorthmemewar, or something close) and it was always hilarious. Definitely miss the regular sub and the meme subs here.
  
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thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
the Liverpool FC is a good example of this LOL

one of the biggest teams in the world, winning the EPL and the most popular community has only a few people that post a comment and rarely is there a post more then just the mod doing a gameday thread

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EnderLaw@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
G O

C H I E F S !

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sexyskinnybitch@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Lemmy has sports communities? ;)

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NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Those sports are only played in one country though. The Kabaddi channels are not doing so well either.

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Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
On lemmy.ca we have semi-active Hockey pages, especially due to the playoffs, check out !hockey@lemmy.ca, and some of the team pages get occasional posts. The advantage of being a lemmy.ca user is that you will encounter small sports team and small Canadian city page posts more often in local feed.

I think before a Buffalo Bills page takes off we need a relatively active American football page. But sports commentary is not very intriguing to me and feels very formulaic: “Go [team name] Go”, “Coach [name] sucks”, “Next season we’ve drafted [name] to our team”, etc. etc.

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