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.
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.
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
Yup I really want a nba sub please someone put in the work I’ll like every post lol
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Yeah but did you try Linux
Did you have a stroke?
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.
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.
Imagine if some random medium sized sports forum decided to move/switch to Lemmy? Would be cool I guess.
As a Sabres fan, I don’t have much to say lol
There is only one thing to say:
Did you see that ludicrous display last night?
(The original site, vectorbelly, is not loading for me, but fortunately I found this backup)
What was Wenger thinking, sending Walcott on that early?
The thing about Arsenal is they always try to walk it in.
I did not. What’d I miss?
These are all nerds who don’t follow sportball most likely. They are quoting the TV show “The IT Crowd” where the main characters pretend to know about sports.
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.
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.
Those sports are only played in one country though. The Kabaddi channels are not doing so well either.
Lol you think hockey is only played in one country? I mean you do know it is an Olympic sport, right?
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?
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.
The problem there might be that people hate league of legends
I didn’t claim it would be easy or even a guaranteed success
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:
Here’s a totally random community about strength and hypertrophy training for example
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.
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.
Dude make an NHL community and I’m in
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.
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.
Yep people like that that use bots or worse AI to auto post think they are helping but are just bring the dead internet theory to reality.
Well yeah I understand why bots are used for posting to communities, but at the same time it does have this effect of making people tip-toe around and hesitant to post themselves
I’ve noticed a couple of users doing this in the Music community recently, as well.
If it’s a bot, fuck the owner. If it’s a real person, chill the fuck out dude. Don’t bust a nut so quickly, it’ll be more fun that way I swear.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
Lemmy is full of a bunch of older neckbeards, based on my observations. (Inclusive of me)
This is just one narrow view on things, tho.
