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.

On lemmy.ca we have semi-active Hockey pages, especially due to the playoffs, check out [email protected], and some of the team pages get occasional posts. The advantage of being a lemmy.ca user is that you will encounter small sports team and small Canadian city page posts more often in local feed.

I think before a Buffalo Bills page takes off we need a relatively active American football page. But sports commentary is not very intriguing to me and feels very formulaic: "Go [team name] Go", "Coach [name] sucks", "Next season we've drafted [name] to our team", etc. etc.

Does Lemmy have an equivalent of the reddit sportsbook sub? That's literally the only thing I actually go to Reddit for anymore, and I'd prefer to just use Lemmy if possible

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.

I’m not sure that your conclusion follows your premise.

[email protected] is very active

the Liverpool FC community 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

This is a safe space for mathletes! We left our bullies behind in high school 🤓

Lemmy is also primarily used by super nerds who don't care about sportsball. Not enough normies here compared to Reddit.

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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.~~ Sorry, I looked with an alt account that I did not think had anything blocked, but apparently it does so i did not see your posts in a bills community.

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.

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

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?