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.

Back when I switched from Reddit to Lemmmy, I made an effort to upvote and comment on the NFL and Buffalo Bills communities. I eventually gave up because it was like months of posting, voting and commenting but when I would go back to check the communities, everything would still be sitting at like 2 up votes and 0 comment replies or if it was my own post, 1 upvote and 0 comments. For a majority of cases. Every once in a blue moon I would come accross a post where another user voted or commented but it was never more than me and one other user.

I know there is a certain demographic that uses Lemmy that is mostly driven by the required IT prowess needed to set up, use and even understand the federated concept. I also recognize that this demographic is traditionally disinterested in sports. Im not complaining about this or the users who are on Lemmy. Im also not wishing for any changes be made to aggressively expand Lemmy’s user base. Its just an impractical wish I have so I could get my sports news from the same source I get all my other news.

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.

  • mintiefresh@lemmy.caEnglish
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    19 days ago

    Wow. I didn’t realize so many people here were anti sports. 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.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      20 days ago

      Yeah, the whole “anti-sports” thing always seemed like overcompensation for something? Like if you don’t like sports (I don’t, for the most part), then just don’t watch them.

      It’s strange when people get like actively hostile about the existence of sports.

  • madame_gaymes@programming.devEnglish
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    22 days 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?

    • shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works
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      22 days 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

  • WolframViper@lemmy.orgEnglish
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    20 days ago

    I feel like most of the writing communities are also pretty inactive. I’m not sure why. I liked reading short stories on Reddit, and I don’t like looking at memes. I’m not sure whether it’s a good thing (because I don’t use Lemmy as often that way) or a bad thing.

    I guess I could spam them with public-domain stories or reposts or something, but I feel like that’s just losing the plot.

  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
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    22 days ago

    The Lemmy user base tilts alternative (queer, neurodiverse, subculturally niche, politically leftist beyond the mainstream centre-left and such), whereas sports fandom is coded aggressively mainstream, as part of what it means to pass the normality tests, so there’d be fewer sports fans than in a randomly chosen population. Maybe if there’s an influx of normies here, the sports forums will fill out.

    • 11111one11111@lemmy.worldOP
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      21 days ago

      That’s just ignorant. There are plenty of people in those demographics you listed who are very active fantasy football and fantasy sports in general fans.

      • reactionality@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        02·
        20 days ago

        You’re the only ignoramus here.

        Watching idiots bash their heads against each other or chase after a ball is what a dog would do.

  • Etterra@discuss.onlineEnglish
    01·
    20 days ago

    Dude. Sports is literally everywhere. It doesn’t need to reach its greedy tendrils into yet another corner of society.

  • walktheplank@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    As a Canadian, it’s the one place I can go to Canadian communities and not be completely buried by fucking hockey. Even this whole elbows up thing is fucking terrible. I get why. I understand that people have been indoctrinated to this and it’s part of their identity here. I don’t understand why it has to be absolutley everywhere though.