• @[email protected]English
    18•1 year ago

    I’m dying with the lack of baseball communication. The biggest Baseball and Atlanta Braves communities are pretty much dead and I really miss talking ball.

    • MattEnglish
      17•1 year ago

      Sports is definitely hard to have take off in these sorts of spaces, since sports are generally talked about much more amongst regular/casual users, than the more tech-savvy crowd who are willing to try these things out.

      It’s the same on the biggest ActivityPub platform (Mastodon) - the really popular regular subjects such as sports and cars just don’t have a presence there.

    • @[email protected]English
      16•1 year ago

      The best thing you can do to help is to comment on threads. I know it feels weird to comment in an empty post, but it does tend to spur lurkers to respond.

    • @[email protected]English
      10•1 year ago

      Phillies fan checking in. Agree. I have a community with a bot that posts game updates like Reddit (which is nice) but the game threads are mainly me posting once or twice and one or two other people with side off comments. No community engagement so to speak. Long way from the Reddit game threads of several thousand comments.

      • morgan423English
        3•1 year ago

        Feel your pain. I’m constantly thinking, what the hell do I have to do to get r/orioles to follow me over to Lemmy to grow the numbers? They are one of the only things left at Reddit that I regularly look at. But 99% of the mod and user base there just doesn’t care about the the issue.

        Conversely, that means that at least sports spaces are among the least bot-spammed places on Reddit. So there’s that.

      • @[email protected]English
        4•1 year ago

        I was lamenting the lack of an NFL community here but no way in hell I’m joining a Dallas Cowboys community regardless of how much discussion it generates. 😆

    • @[email protected]English
      3•1 year ago

      Shameless plug for [email protected] (check out our sidebar for the team-specific communities). We’ve got the game bots ported over and are working on improving them and adding new features.

      I agree with [email protected] though, the Venn diagram of sports fans and tech-savvy lemmy pioneers is pretty small. You can help by posting and commenting to attract more users. More content == more users (eventually).

    • @[email protected]English
      2•1 year ago

      Reddit is still unrivaled for sports content unfortunately. I’m have to scrounge around and am considering moving back to RealGM shudders