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.
Lemmy has sports communities? ;)
Sports are dumb anyway!
Nah, they promote teamwork and physical fitness which are both good things.
Is that why everyone is drinking beer during matches and eating tons of fast food?
The players?
So original and edgy! To each their own🍻
I should have used /s, just joshin
Just look at the rest of these comments… the /s was definitely needed unfortunately.
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.
F1 sometimes reaches the frontpage
European sports on Lemmy are a lot more active than American ones
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.
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.
what about subs? lemmy subs
The Philadelphia ones identify as hoagies.
I’m actually down to call them that
Connecticut will identify as grinders
Is there a sub for subs on grinder?
There’s a comm on lemmynsfw, if you’re interested in subs.
Did y’all think I meant the sexy kind of subs?
Intentional misunderstanding for comedic purposes. “Sub” doesn’t have meaning on Lemmy, any more than it would on an old school phpBB forum. It’s a reddit naming convention.
Ah, i see
People refer to them as coms or comms.
Commies! Oh, wait.
Lemmy moment
Theres lots of those here.
Lemmy is also primarily used by super nerds who don’t care about sportsball. Not enough normies here compared to Reddit.
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.
Does a kind of underground system like Lemmy appeal to sports fans?
I think so yes where you can find out real, not paid for news
“I like the absence of corporate shills and ads.” Also, why doesn’t anyone talk about sports teams owned by billionaires and corporations?
And once those pricks get a hold of Lemmy they will ruin it just like reddit.
HAHA SPORTSBALL GUYS.
! DAE HANDEGG???1PLEASE CLAP
I was gonna make the sportsball comment and you crushed my spirit.
Did you have a stroke?
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.
@[email protected] 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.
Yeah but did you try Linux
Try being into less mainstream sports. It’s like me and one other guy talking to each other over on [email protected]
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It’s the middle of the current tournament-- great time to be watching!
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.
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Did you see that ludicrous display last night?
Every time someone talks sport I think of this.
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.
(The original site, vectorbelly, is not loading for me, but fortunately I found this backup)
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
We just gotta go out there and give it 10000000000% guys!
What was Wenger thinking, sending Walcott on that early?
The thing about Arsenal is they always try to walk it in.
Well, there ya go.
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.
The F1 communities are fairly active but TBF it’s mostly because a few people regularly post news articles
