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.
Go Bills. I started on the twobillsdrive board until that went to shit. Migrated to the bills subreddit after that. Would be nice to have that here.
One thing to do is link people on reddit to lemmy. That’s how I found out about this place. Most people have no idea it exists
I personally cant watch NFL after being a lifelong fan. Seems like the games are being manipulated. Seems a little glitchy with some weird calls being made these days. Became unwatchable for me but …Go Ravens !!!
Whenever I say this, people think I’m insane. “You think this is all rigged!?” they say. Not rigged per se, but the nfl as a whole has a huge financial incentive to have their large market teams and star personalities on the biggest stage. They craft a narrative and would prefer it to play out that way. I’m not suggesting it’s professional wrestling, but I have a strong hunch that officials are “indirectly” incentivized to put their thumb on the scale. The players are real, the sport is real, but the league will absolutely nudge things in their direction. The Kelce/Swift show being the biggest recent example; viewership went way up and a lot of people took that to the bank. It all just fit together too well.
Always found it amazing how Vegas hits those spreads dead nuts across all the games every week.it is truly an amazing feat.
The last 10 years they toss a flag then “go to new york” for the call and sometimes they just pick the flag up and say “oh it was nothing, back to our regularly scheduled programming”
Go Bills! Well now that youre here, it makes 3 of us! According to the laws of nature that officially makes us a community of Bills fans instead of a couple of Bills fans😂