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this post was submitted on 17 May 2025
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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?
As a Sabres fan, I don't have much to say lol
There is only one thing to say: 
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.
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."
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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:
[email protected] with nearly 10k subscribers.
But importantly there's also a place for shitposting and meming for the sport in a separate community:
[email protected] 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.
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 has sports communities? ;)
Does anyone else feel like these national leagues have become just as disconnected from reality as any other hyper capitalist enterprise?
I want more hometown sports. I daydream about leagues funded by local communities, starring local talent, with smaller local crowds. Is there anyone else out there who would give much more of a shit if things were a little more close to home, reality-wise? Am I alone?
Guys getting paid literally hundreds of millions to play a sport is unrelatable. A local star making $300k and being a part of the community feels better to me. Seems like we should be able to afford a lot of those for the money we are spending.
I know next to nothing about sports or the business around them, but I know I remember summer nights with cheap hotdogs and minor league ball that seem to have evaporated as the wealthy accumulated. 🤷♂️
The western new york community is just a large scale hometown community. Prolly where Buffalo got the name city of neighbors. I get what you are saying but I dont watch many national sports coverage media, im just looking for a source for news breaks from people like Rappaport, amd Schefter. As for publications i generally stick to The Athletic and our local WGR550. Im definitely not interested in watching any of the ESPN shows for the same reasons I bathing you outlined.
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Did you see that ludicrous display last night?
(The original site, vectorbelly, is not loading for me, but fortunately I found this backup)
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What was Wenger thinking, sending Walcott on that early?
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.
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Thankfully our [email protected] community is semi-active. Obviously not as much as r/nba, but we do have active mods and game day threads.
I cannot explain why but small Lemmy communities with unique content do not seem to get favored enough by the algorithm.
One of the most unique Lemmy communities is https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/funhole and it rarely gets featured.
Well it's not much of an algorithm, it's mostly about votes or comments depending on your selected filter. If you want niche things you need to subscribe to communities and engage with it.
The F1 communities are fairly active but TBF it's mostly because a few people regularly post news articles
Counterpoint: as soon as sports and their related normies became popular and took over Reddit, it went to complete shit.
Lol ok. So reddit went to shit 10-15 years ago? Breezing over the opinionated over generalization, even if it was the case it wasn't true for the individual subreddits. R/BuffaloBills was still an amazing community with amazing user base even at the point of my leaving reddit. My proudest moment of being a Bills fans and being apart of a community was every time r/buffalobills and billsmafia raised millions on top of millions of dollars for Osheas Children's hospital, Andy Dalton's charity and Damar Hamlin"s charity.
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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 communities
very important to me.
I have communities that I care about that aren't on here too. It's their loss if they don't join the fediverse. If it takes them another few years of eating billionaires dicks to get tired of dickbreath, that's on them.
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.