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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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CH3DD4R_G0BL1N@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I wine discount your assessment of the overlap (or lack thereof) between the lemmy demo and sports demo. But I’ll submit to you a factor you, and many others, may not have considered. I fit into both demos but simply lost so interest in keeping up with sports after the pandemic. It just really put into perspective how much they don’t matter to me and I haven’t gotten back into them. I’m curious if this happened in any kind of significant amount. And things haven’t progressed in the world to make getting back into them a big desire. I do still turn in the occasional Stanley Cup playoff game if I happen to come across it with nothing better going on. But I haven’t made sport a primary hobby of mine since 2019 and I don’t think I’m ever going to again. And it used to be my primary hobby. I wasn’t fantasy league and sport book level, but I scheduled life around games and teams and spent lots of time in forums.

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possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨year⁩ ago
  People refer to them as coms or comms.
  
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  - vonxylofon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Commies! Oh, wait.
    
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- daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  what about subs? lemmy subs
  
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  - nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    There’s a comm on lemmynsfw, if you’re interested in subs.
    
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  - Vandals_handle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    The Philadelphia ones identify as hoagies.
    
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3dmvr@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Literally just post everything you find interesting and upvote elsewhere

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dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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carlossurf@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  That someone is you
  
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haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Please no
  
  That’s not real content. It is just lots and lots of spam.
  
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  - gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    So don’t let your account see bot accounts
    
    That’s a you problem
    
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  - Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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- 11111one11111@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I’ll take a thousand brain-dead douchebag comments over your brain-dead douchebag comment, bitch.
  
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- Soggy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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  - AnalogNotDigital@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    It seems like the tabletop wargaming groups are really dead, so I feel you on this, haha.
    
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  - FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    The fediverse is what you make it. If you have an interest, take five minutes and post a couple of articles a day. It’s not overly difficult to to engage with people.
    
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OmegaLemmy@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Careful what you wish for
  
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socsa@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
HAHA SPORTSBALL GUYS.
! DAE HANDEGG????1

PLEASE CLAP

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- misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I was gonna make the sportsball comment and you crushed my spirit.
  
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- Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yeah but did you try Linux
  
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- 11111one11111@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Did you have a stroke?
  
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  - reactionality@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    You certainly seem like you’ve had a few brain clots.
    
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NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Those sports are only played in one country though. The Kabaddi channels are not doing so well either.

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- 11111one11111@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Lol you think hockey is only played in one country? I mean you do know it is an Olympic sport, right?
  
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pepperjohnson@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
As a Sabres fan, I don’t have much to say lol

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- 11111one11111@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  There is only one thing to say: Image
  
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hedge_lord@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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- 11111one11111@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  Sometimes I wish that I was into sports, it seems very fun!
  
  Of the top 10 greatest times I’ve ever had, prolly 7 are from attending Bills games, or thr PGA Championship, or Sabres games
  
  I feel like I would need to know people irl who are into sports in order to get into sports though.
  
  Just pick a team, start wearing their gear and the friends will come. Lol its a great way of meeting people. You dont need to learn too much to understand the game enough to become a fan. A quick youtube video to explain the game then look up any of the number of documentaries that exist for every amd any team to learn their story/history and you are good to go.
  
  Once you start meeting people and tell them you just started getting into it, other fans are going to be delighted to share their knowledge or answer questions. You’ll be apart of a community that will always have your back.
  
  My local team is thr Buffalo Bills, our star quarterback’s name is Josh Allen. When Josh’s grandma died, Bills fans everywhere started donating $17 (Josh’s jersey number) to his charity for children’s hospital. We raised over a million dollars and today there is a whole wing added to children’s hospital dedicated to Josh’s grandmother that was built with the funds of his charity.
  
  Im not guna pitch any team for you to follow but I will say that if I were you, id want to join the greatest fan community of any sport of all time, the Buffalo Bills’ Billsmafia lol.
  
  Are sports memes a big thing? I feel like those should/could be a big thing.
  
  The sports meme market is booming. NBA is prolly the king of sports memes. There are prolly reation memes you have seen a thousand times but didn’t know were from sports.
  
  The last bit of advice id give is to get into the fantasy sports of whatever team you choose. Its the best way of learning which players are good on other teams, what plays to cheer for or be pissed about, but mostly it’ll teach you how the game’s statistics work. Plus they’re really fun and great way meet new friends. If you are interested in learning more there was a comedy series on FX that was really good that was all about a group of friends and their fantasy football league called, “The League.”
  
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partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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sexyskinnybitch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Lemmy has sports communities? ;)

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Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Did you see that ludicrous display last night?

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- the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Every time someone talks sport I think of this.
  
  www.youtube.com/watch?v=f27IqVo5-Oc
  
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- OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  img
  
  (The original site, vectorbelly, is not loading for me, but fortunately I found this backup)
  
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  - AoxoMoxoA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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- Narwhalrus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  What was Wenger thinking, sending Walcott on that early?
  
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  - Nasan@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    The thing about Arsenal is they always try to walk it in.
    
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- 11111one11111@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I did not. What’d I miss?
  
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  - Thorry84@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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scytale@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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IndustryStandard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The F1 communities are fairly active but TBF it’s mostly because a few people regularly post news articles

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abdominable@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    You are the reason reddit went to shit. Stay there.
    
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FancyPantsFIRE@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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DrFistington@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Does Lemmy have an equivalent of the reddit sportsbook sub? That’s literally the only thing I actually go to Reddit for anymore, and I’d prefer to just use Lemmy if possible

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some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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- Albbi@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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- Upgrayedd1776@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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nomecks@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
!superbowl@lemmy.world is very active

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- 11111one11111@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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- Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  When are the owls gonna play sportsball?
  
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  - paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Hoot hoot, hike!
    
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- Upgrayedd1776@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  all fake, dont buy in to big bird insidiousness, they are not real
  
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thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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- 11111one11111@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Exactly what im talking about. I should’ve looked up their username and gave them credit but the lemmy nfl community is the same way It basically has one dude posting all the posts at one time. So there will be community silence for days then all of a sudden 15 posts of articles from the past week or so. Might be a bot doing it tho cuz they’ve never added a comment or replied to any posts I’ve made.
  
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Stovetop@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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