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.
You certainly seem like you’ve had a few brain clots.
My bad, i dont understand a lick of what his comment even says but it must make sense if everyone else can understand it if its obvious enough to throw insults as a reply.
@socsa@piefed.social was making fun of (at least, I think they’re making fun of…it could be a pretty extreme Poe’s Law case) people who vehemently hate sport. “Sportsball” is a word such people use to belittle sport. “DAE handegg” references (1) the “DAE [x]” meme, where someone makes fun of a community hivemind by saying “does anyone else like [thing the community is well-known for liking]”, and (2) the term “handegg”, used by fans of soccer to refer to other types of football, because of a misunderstanding of what “ball” means (they think it requires a spherical object) and why football is called football (they think it’s because you kick the ball exclusively with your feet). People who unironically say “handegg” also seem to have never looked at either an egg or a non-soccer football.
Ok i can see it now. I definitely never saw this meme format before or if I did I prolly assumed stroke or but dial comment post so thank you.