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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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madame_gaymes@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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- shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  - 11111one11111@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    We are in at the ground level of Lemmy. A lot of people like OP are passive consumers
    
    For real? Im replying to almost every comment I get a notification, I made this post, I’ve commented on NFL posts among other comments in non-sports comms. How you guna just blindly call me a passive consumer lol? Not hating just couldn’t believe you coulld draw that conclusion while I felt I was borderline spamming the thread with replies hahah 🍻cheers tho, to your commitment to motivating any and all users to be more active.🍻
    
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  - biofaust@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Thanks for that link! I was almost gonna start one myself. Gonna try that one instead, at least for a while.
    
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  - Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    A lot of people like OP are passive consumers
    
    Passive consumers make up the largest number; the base of the pyramid. But you seem to be implying that there’s nothing between that and the tip of the pyramid, who create their own communities and post their own content into them.
    
    OP seems to be a user in the middle. Happy to contribute to ongoing conversations by commenting, replying, and voting, but not as comfortable starting conversations. Which, to be honest, is also where I’m at with sport threads. I used to love popping in to a live game discussion megathread to comment on a particularly outrageous call, or to see the community’s response to something controversial. But it’s not a subject area I’m invested in enough to start the community myself, or to make enough comments to help start a lively-looking megathread.
    
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- Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    The problem there might be that people hate league of legends
    
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  - gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    This is so dismissive
    
    It’s all the complaint deserves
    
    We need more people to be the second and third person to join and help communities that someone else is trying to start
    
    Sounds like you need to let your sports-liking associates elsewhere know about the platform to help with your problem, rather than whinge that the already existing userbase doesn’t like what you do
    
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  - madame_gaymes@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I didn’t claim it would be easy or even a guaranteed success
    
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- lordnikon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Dude make an NHL community and I’m in
    
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- Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Reddit was relatively niche, Lemmy even more so. Who the fuck do you think is gonna be here!?
  
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  - madame_gaymes@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Not sure if agreeing with me, but yea that’s pretty much what I was getting at.
    
    Reddit was niche, but I don’t think so anymore. Fidelity bank, Logitech, Microsoft, and many many more have official accounts and support subs on there, and have for many years.
    
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Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Did you see that ludicrous display last night?

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- Narwhalrus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  What was Wenger thinking, sending Walcott on that early?
  
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  - Nasan@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    The thing about Arsenal is they always try to walk it in.
    
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- OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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  (The original site, vectorbelly, is not loading for me, but fortunately I found this backup)
  
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  - AoxoMoxoA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    We tried our best but we couldn’t stop them and they outplayed us now we’re looking forward to next week and we’re not going to focus on this loss our defense just needs to make more stops and our offense needs to put more points on the board we’ve got such a great group of guys and this loss is going to make us work harder and we’ll see if we can’t get a win next week
    
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- 11111one11111@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I did not. What’d I miss?
  
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  - Thorry84@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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- the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Every time someone talks sport I think of this.
  
  www.youtube.com/watch?v=f27IqVo5-Oc
  
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dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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- 11111one11111@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  So learn how to fuckin filter and subscribe to take control of your feed and go piss and moan in those threads.
  
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  - dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I can and I do. Its easy enough to block simple angry fuckers like you one at a time. Thanks for volunteering to sit down and shut up in my feed.
    
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FancyPantsFIRE@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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nomecks@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
!superbowl@lemmy.world is very active

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- Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  When are the owls gonna play sportsball?
  
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  - paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Hoot hoot, hike!
    
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- 11111one11111@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  - Wiz@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    It’s pretty active with Superb Owls, just like you’d expect!
    
    What’s this one-time sports game you’re talkin’ about?
    
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- Upgrayedd1776@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  all fake, dont buy in to big bird insidiousness, they are not real
  
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paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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socsa@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
HAHA SPORTSBALL GUYS.
! DAE HANDEGG????1

PLEASE CLAP

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- Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Yeah but did you try Linux
  
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- misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I was gonna make the sportsball comment and you crushed my spirit.
  
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- 11111one11111@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Did you have a stroke?
  
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  - reactionality@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    You certainly seem like you’ve had a few brain clots.
    
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Etterra@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Dude. Sports is literally everywhere. It doesn’t need to reach its greedy tendrils into yet another corner of society.

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oneofmany@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I like the absence of corporate shills and ads. Also, why doesn’t anyone talk about sports teams owned by billionaires?

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- the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  And once those pricks get a hold of Lemmy they will ruin it just like reddit.
  
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Azal@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I’m not a sports guy, I’m pretty anti-sports actually (I can go on absolutely unhinged TED talks about how the local teams are trying to drain the city for taxes… I want to continue, so feel free to ask but not doing it here.) But I agree with you on the niche hobbies and local flavor.

I still have to use Reddit because there hasn’t been a good community for local on Lemmy (yes, I know everyone going “it’s user generated” but I’m like 1 of 5 instead of the hundreds still on reddit) and small hobbies in a lot of the crafting world is non-existent on Lemmy.

I don’t have an answer on this one, just sucks. It’s the trouble of being one of the first ones in the door.

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- 11111one11111@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  So this is the type of discussion I was hoping for. I honestly didn’t even mean to trigger so many people by bringing up sports when the whole showerthought started cuz I missed my local team’s subreddit.
  
  I can go on absolutely unhinged TED talks about how the local teams are trying to drain the city for taxes…
  
  Don’t even get me started, we are in the same paddle boat when it comes to the ownership and the league’s use of tax payer dollars. The fucking Bills just set some sort of record I think for the new stadium they built by the belligerently small amount of money the owners are going to be contributing. The fuckin thing is costing billions and its just about entirely funded by 2 channels from the same source, the people of our our community. 1 channel is thru taxes and the other is thru some PPE shit where if you want to buy season tickets you need to give them like $40,000 as a one time fee into of the season ticket cost and also commit to like 10 seasons to even be able to buy a season ticket.
  
  I know your reply will be “then why are you a fan still” so ill bashfully explain why in one word, community. The WNY community is my favorite part of the greater Buffalo/Niagara region and being apart of Billsmafia is such a huge part of it. We’ve never been a champion, until 5 years ago there were no bandwagons of fans looking to become Bills fans, its something you are just born into here. We put up with 8 ft snow storms, 17 years of missing the playoffs, losing 4 super bowls in a row, Damar Hamlin going into a freak occurrence of cardiac arrest and needing 10 mins of CPR to survive, and thats just the big stuff. At the end of the day tho, it forms a bond in the community like I’ve never seen anywhere else. When Josh’s Allen’s grandmother died, Billsmafia raised millions of dollars for his charity which came in $17 increments (his jersey number), now today there is an entire wing at Oshea’s Children’s Hospital dedicated to his grandmother’s name all funded by fans and member of the community. When we got dumped on with 6 ft of snow in 2 days, Bills players drover around house to house in skidsters plowing out people’s driveways. When Andy Dalton beat the Ravens against all odds and made it so the Bills would go to the playoffs breaking a 17 year long drought, Andy isnt even a Buffall Bills player he plays for Cincinnati but that didn’t stop Billsmafia from raising hundreds of thousands if not over a million dollars for Andy’s charity.
  
  The idiots who own teams and run the league can get fucked, ill never argue against that but the men and women within each and every organization who have their boots on the ground, they are all amazing humans busting their ass off to make theirs and our community the best they possibly can.
  
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  - Azal@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Oh I get it completely. There’s a bunch of subreddits I miss, my industry I work in which is very niche, leatherworking, heck even the motorcycle community in Lemmy is… lacking.
    
    On the other part you brought in… OH BOY! Unhinged TED talk time.
    
    So I live relatively close to the Royals and the Chiefs stadiums. John Sherman, gas magnate, the owner of the Royals decided he wanted to move the stadium to downtown, where things have been picking up. Specifically he wanted it in the Crossroads where there’s a lot of local community shops and everything, because he wanted it near Power and Light district where there’s bars and the like which… oh right, he owns a lot of. Troubles came up that the stadium proposals took foooooooorever to even come up, looked like it was drawn on a napkin instead of anything serious, and wanted a tax levy to be put on the city to continue one that still hasn’t been paid off for the last time the two stadiums were built. The whole time saying “Look how the stadiums bring business in!”… the area around the two stadiums have managed to keep a Denny’s and a Taco Bell alive, the big resort hotel couldn’t even survive. Yea… real great for business.
    
    Another trouble is… as I say, I am one of those who actively detests sports… I wish I could find the post, there’s an old Reddit post describing what not liking sports was like and used archeology in how it invades everything around you so it’s easy to go from “I couldn’t care less” to “Okay, I hate this thing now. It is insufferable.” I say all that to say, just paying any attention to the news I knew at the time the Royals was the second worst team in the MLB, they were that bad. So they knew they couldn’t get this move off the ground so they went to the Chiefs who was the most recent superbowl winner which of course was happy to get money their way, and the ad campaign went out. And despite the Royals/Sherman being the push on getting this going, it was all Chiefs all the time. I literally even got a flier in my mail “The liberals are trying to take away our teams!” paid for by the team push, so yay politics even drug in. The whole time threatening “Well if you don’t vote it in, we’ll move. Maybe to Kansas (right over the border) or hey, even Tennessee.” Thing is, the state remembers St. Louis on the other side had the rams, built them a stadium and whoopsiedoodle they packed up and moved to California leaving a city with a stadium and fuck all to do with it.
    
    So we’ve got all sorts of issue in state and local level, but holy fuck all the political pressure since the voters turned down the tax is “How can we keep these teams in Missouri!” And it’s funny, I said I’d be more okay paying for it if we got ANYTHING out of it… I don’t mind paying taxes to keep our zoo going and it’s nice I get a hefty discount when I go, but the Royals and Chiefs are giving a nice hearty “go fuck yourself” for us paying taxes so the billionaires have their teams.
    
    On to the “Why are you a fan?” question you brought up. I don’t question it… but I’ve never understood it. I grew up in Arkansas that never had a pro team so college sports was big… I got to hear the “calling the hogs” my entire life and never comprehended the why. Probably because dad was not a sports guy and had the opinion “Why do I want to watch people play a game?” even though he played in high school and I’ve been pretty much the same. I get the community stuff, and that’s fantastic. I’ve just found a community outside of sports so it doesn’t resound to me. The reason I’ve become so against sports beyond it’s completely impossible to ignore it it’s so inundated in culture, is the sheer amount of money that goes into it in all levels. High school, if you’re one of the “football” schools, your school only has 3-4 sports, all the big stadium ticket getting team sports, the smaller less prestigious schools get more sports like wrestling and the like… guess which situation I ended up in? And watching schools dump money into the sports above all other things like theater, labs, etc. “But it brings in money for the school.” Cool cool… so why are we getting asked for a tax levy so the school can build yet another stadium? Repeat this for the college level so the “Hogs can have a proper place to play!” and now the city with pro teams level. And I hear the ticket prices and think I wouldn’t pay those prices to see my favorite band… and again, those ticket prices and yet we have to pay for their shit?
    
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Stovetop@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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- TisI@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  People refer to them as coms or comms.
  
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  - vonxylofon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Commies! Oh, wait.
    
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- daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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- daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  what about subs? lemmy subs
  
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  - Vandals_handle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    The Philadelphia ones identify as hoagies.
    
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  - nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    There’s a comm on lemmynsfw, if you’re interested in subs.
    
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frigidaphelion@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Sports are dumb anyway!

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- 11111one11111@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  So original and edgy! To each their own🍻
  
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  - frigidaphelion@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I should have used /s, just joshin
    
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- Ironfist79@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Nah, they promote teamwork and physical fitness which are both good things.
  
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  - vxx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Is that why everyone is drinking beer during matches and eating tons of fast food?
    
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haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Please no
  
  That’s not real content. It is just lots and lots of spam.
  
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  - Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    For news and sport it could be useful.
    
    Tag it as bot generated. Don’t allow bot comments.
    
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  - haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  - gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    So don’t let your account see bot accounts
    
    That’s a you problem
    
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chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
As a sports fan (NHL, NFL, NBA, ATP) I feel lucky to have a bunch of sports fan coworkers. We talk sports and joke around at work all day.

I do wish the sports communities on lemmy were more active. It seems like lemmy’s left-wing community does not have very many sports fans.

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- Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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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NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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scytale@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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abdominable@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  - h4x0r@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    You are the reason reddit went to shit. Stay there.
    
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some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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nokturne213@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Yeah, we prefer real news.

Sports coverage might as well be celebrity gossip for as much relevance it has when the world is going to shit.

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reactionality@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Ewww keep that shit away from this space. We don’t need brain-addled concussion-full roided up meatheads on Lemmy.

Same as they’re not needed irl but I guess some of you all sniffed a little too much lead paint to agree.

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zjti8eit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Or we are all just a bunch of nerds with better things to do than watch the people who used to beat us up.

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mintiefresh@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Wow. I didn’t realize so many people here were anti sports around here. Interesting.

I do miss the sports from Reddit so I still go back for that. But I’ve also decided to try to be the change … So I’ve started to post more in the sports communities around here.

It’s probably the last thing I still go back to Reddit for. Otherwise Lemmy is my go to.

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wieson@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
F1 sometimes reaches the frontpage

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Igris@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Having a small community means you will not attract all the toxic people most of the time.

For me Lemmy feels like s small town ( New Hope, Pennsylvania) with mostly nicer people, while Reddit is a big town (New York) that is well known, but you have a lot more assholes.😅

And honestly, I really enjoy Lemmy for that.🙂

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the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Thats because sports are shit, I hope they stay out.

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MehBlah@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
When the sports centric folk star appearing here so will a lot of the garbage that comes with having a non tech userbase.

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RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Everyone’s already hit the high points.

Sports fanbase tends to not be a tech base, which Lemmy primarily is.

Sports are paywalled to hell and back, the userbase here is far more inclined to avoid paywalls and the content behind it.

People dislike the celebrity gossip and stuffed suits surrounding sports.

My own personal disregard for sports leans more towards the dislike of the monied celebrity of the entire genre, the worship of the players, and the pointless obsession and discussion of things like stats that have all the meaning of dowsing rods. But that’s literally just my opinion and obviously plenty of people feel otherwise.

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