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The small scale of Lemmy's active user base is never more evident than in the absence of active members in all the sports related communities.

https://lemmy.world/post/29805464

The small scale of Lemmy's active user base is never more evident than in the absence of active members in all the sports related communities. - Lemmy.World

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. 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.

May 17, 2025 at 2:48pmWeb
Show threadmadame_gaymesMay 17, 2025

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?

Show threadshittydwarfMay 17, 2025

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:

[email protected]

Here’s a totally random community about strength and hypertrophy training for example

Show threadKaryoplasmaMay 17, 2025
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.
Show threadr.EndTimesMay 18, 2025
you dont have to be social or even reply to commenters lol
Show thread11111one11111May 18, 2025

We are in at the ground level of Lemmy. A lot of people like OP are passive consumers

For real? Im replying to almost every comment I get a notification, I made this post, I’ve commented on NFL posts among other comments in non-sports comms. How you guna just blindly call me a passive consumer lol? Not hating just couldn’t believe you coulld draw that conclusion while I felt I was borderline spamming the thread with replies hahah 🍻cheers tho, to your commitment to motivating any and all users to be more active.🍻

Show threadshittydwarfMay 18, 2025
Gotta give props to active participation, upvotes, comments are helping too, you’re right. I was just focussed on community building, it might not be as fun but it’s important also
Show threadZagorathMay 19, 2025

A lot of people like OP are passive consumers

Passive consumers make up the largest number; the base of the pyramid. But you seem to be implying that there’s nothing between that and the tip of the pyramid, who create their own communities and post their own content into them.

OP seems to be a user in the middle. Happy to contribute to ongoing conversations by commenting, replying, and voting, but not as comfortable starting conversations. Which, to be honest, is also where I’m at with sport threads. I used to love popping in to a live game discussion megathread to comment on a particularly outrageous call, or to see the community’s response to something controversial. But it’s not a subject area I’m invested in enough to start the community myself, or to make enough comments to help start a lively-looking megathread.

Show threadbiofaustMay 19, 2025
Thanks for that link! I was almost gonna start one myself. Gonna try that one instead, at least for a while.
Show threadlordnikonMay 17, 2025

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.

Show threadnjm1314May 17, 2025
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.
Show threadlordnikonMay 17, 2025
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.
Show threadmadame_gaymesMay 17, 2025

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.

Show thread4amMay 18, 2025

That pattern is 100% bots getting the posts from an RSS feed and it’s set to only refresh every x hours.

When it does and it has 15 new stories, it rapidly posts 15 times.

When those clog up my all feed, instant block. So it’s really having the opposite effect that the bot owner intends.

The shitty thing is that half the time they’re not even marked as bot accounts.

Show threadBubberpillarMay 17, 2025
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
Show threadSerinusMay 17, 2025

This is so dismissive.

I spent a full year posting to [email protected] 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.

Show threadmadame_gaymesMay 17, 2025
I didn’t claim it would be easy or even a guaranteed success
Show threadDragon Rider (drag)May 17, 2025
The problem there might be that people hate league of legends
Show threadWanderingVentraMay 18, 2025
Eh, the community is huge on Reddit so clearly the fans exist (and I’m one but just took a big social media break for awhile so that didn’t help). Lemmy just needs more people with more diverse interests.
Show threadPsychadelligoatMay 18, 2025

This is so dismissive

It’s all the complaint deserves

We need more people to be the second and third person to join and help communities that someone else is trying to start

Sounds like you need to let your sports-liking associates elsewhere know about the platform to help with your problem, rather than whinge that the already existing userbase doesn’t like what you do

Show thread11111one11111May 17, 2025

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.

Show threadchingaderaMay 18, 2025
Dude make an NHL community and I’m in
Show thread11111one11111May 18, 2025
Lol there already is one. Just search NFL.
Show threadWanderingVentraMay 18, 2025
They said NHL lol
Show thread11111one11111May 18, 2025
Hahahaha I totally meant to say NHL but I might be wrong now that I think about, it might be called hockey. Ill have to double check and will edit my NFL comment to include a link to the hockey sub.
Show threadEmpricornMay 19, 2025
Reddit was relatively niche, Lemmy even more so. Who the fuck do you think is gonna be here!?
Show threadmadame_gaymesMay 19, 2025

Not sure if agreeing with me, but yea that’s pretty much what I was getting at.

Reddit was niche, but I don’t think so anymore. Fidelity bank, Logitech, Microsoft, and many many more have official accounts and support subs on there, and have for many years.

Show threadEmpricornMay 19, 2025
Yeah, that’s fair. I think Lemmy will continue to remain niche for the foreseeable future…
Show threadmadame_gaymesMay 19, 2025
Considering Mastodon has been around for a while, but people still flocked to another corporate-structured platform after Twitter, yea. It probably will never not be niche.
Show threadNOT_RICKMay 17, 2025
Yeah, I try to engage on the sports posts because there isn’t much going on in these comms. But I’m hopeful we can get some growth eventually
Show threadatro_cityMay 17, 2025
Maybe making a sports related instance could help with making it more attractive to the fans. Or ask your favorite sports team to create an instance forum.sparta.cz or something and it's a lemmy instance.
Show threadNOT_RICKMay 17, 2025
There’s fanaticus.social already; it’s just not heavily used because nerds generally aren’t huge sports fans.
Show threadnocturneMay 17, 2025

Be the change you want to see. Of your visible posts, 0 of them are in the communities you want to see active. The same goes for your last week or so of comments.

I am not a sports fan, but I have been loving watching the PWHL. So much so that I took over modding [email protected] I post the score of every game (granted this season there are only 6 teams). I have started to post video highlights, I also am cross posting to [email protected] however the reception there is decidedly frigid. The community has about doubled in size since I started posting regularly.

Show threadmean_bean279May 17, 2025
If you scroll just a little pass the surface level of their account you can see that OP has posted a dozen times in the Bills community.
Show threadnocturneMay 17, 2025
I likely have that community blocked. I looked with an alt account that I did not think had anything blocked. Oops.
Show thread11111one11111May 17, 2025
I hope you only spent the time scolling posts cuz that seems like a long way to go to verify what I explained in my post if you scrolled thru all the comments I post looking for the cast time I posted/commented in NFL or Bills communities lol. I know its been a long time cuz if memory serves it would’ve been in last years off season.
Show threadEnderLawMay 17, 2025

G O

C H I E F S !

Show threadGladiusBMay 17, 2025
Instantly dislike this idea…
Show threadEnderLawMay 17, 2025
She/He wanted more sports interaction!
Show threadTujioMay 17, 2025
Dammit, not like that!
Show thread11111one11111May 17, 2025
Awwwwww fuck you and the double cheeseburger Andy rode in on. Lol🍻
Show threadStovetopMay 17, 2025
Lemmy is also primarily used by super nerds who don’t care about sportsball. Not enough normies here compared to Reddit.
Show thread11111one11111May 17, 2025
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.
Show threadsunzu2May 17, 2025
This is a safe space for mathletes! We left our bullies behind in high school 🤓
Show thread11111one11111May 17, 2025
Cool story, bro. Couldn’t imagine why someone like you who makes ignorant comments of topics they have no interest in would ever get bullied but good for you!
Show threadsunzu2May 17, 2025
Why u mad tho?
Show threadreactionalityMay 18, 2025

Because he is the bully in question.

Just another roided up “athlete” who snorts whey and carbs and calls themselves a sports-fan, while engaging in exactly nil critical thinking.

Show threadthisbenzingringMay 17, 2025

the Liverpool FC is a good example of this LOL

one of the biggest teams in the world, winning the EPL and the most popular community has only a few people that post a comment and rarely is there a post more then just the mod doing a gameday thread

Show threadatro_cityMay 17, 2025
Probably the Liverpool FC community is full of people who don't even know the word privacy. They probably heard about it in a Malus ad and think it means buying an iPhone and installing Telegram.
Show threadthisbenzingringMay 17, 2025
you feeling bitter about the Crystal Palace loss?
Show thread11111one11111May 17, 2025
Exactly what im talking about. I should’ve looked up their username and gave them credit but the lemmy nfl community is the same way It basically has one dude posting all the posts at one time. So there will be community silence for days then all of a sudden 15 posts of articles from the past week or so. Might be a bot doing it tho cuz they’ve never added a comment or replied to any posts I’ve made.
Show threadnomecksMay 17, 2025
[email protected] is very active
Show threadUpgrayedd1776May 17, 2025
all fake, dont buy in to big bird insidiousness, they are not real
Show thread🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 May 17, 2025
When are the owls gonna play sportsball?
Show threadparaphrandMay 17, 2025
Hoot hoot, hike!
Show thread11111one11111May 17, 2025
Hmmmmmm is it tho, WHO would be active there and WHO would only wanna talk about one game once a year? Lol im just assuming its a community dedicated to owls.
Show threadWizMay 19, 2025

It’s pretty active with Superb Owls, just like you’d expect!

What’s this one-time sports game you’re talkin’ about?

Show threadNougatMay 17, 2025
I’m not sure that your conclusion follows your premise.
Show threadsome_guyMay 17, 2025
Maybe Lemmy has a decent amount of users who are more inclined to nerd stuff like Linux and frisbee? I don’t care for sports or cars or other “cool” dude stuff. But I love computers and books and frisbee (which I don’t get to throw nearly enough). This just got me thinking. I’m gonna actively try to get some friends together to toss the bee. In my forties. Like we were in our teens. Thanks for inspiring me.
Show threadUpgrayedd1776May 17, 2025
or used to be into sports then gambling became legal and feel its less real and sympathy for friends struggling with gambling now
Show threadsocsaMay 18, 2025
This is kind of where I am. Gambling has killed any authenticity in the fandom to the point where if I watch a game with friends they are just all on their phones cons