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.

  • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months 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.

  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
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    2 months 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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      2 months 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
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        2 months 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.

  • WolframViper@lemmy.orgEnglish
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    2 months 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.

  • madame_gaymes@programming.devEnglish
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    2 months 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?