The tough part for me is that the reason I use Reddit is for bullshitting with people about sports teams I like. Lets look at some of the communities here.

Baltimore Orioles -- There's one on lemmy.world with 150 subscribers. The last post is from 4 months ago and it's a game thread posted by a bot with 0 comments. There's also one on fanaticus.social with the last post from 7 months ago.
Carolina Panthers -- There's one on fanaticus.social with 3 subscribers.
Miami Heat -- There's one on lemmy.world with 10 subscribers.
Pittsburgh Penguins -- Again, lemmy.world with 11 subscribers.

I'd love to get off reddit but until there's actually people to talk with, this place is just never going to meet the needs of sports content that I use Reddit for. I had no interest in Bluesky until some people actually got on it as well. The Shutdown Fullcast for college football brought a bunch of people and fans there so it gave some utility to the site. Without utility, there's no reason to be here.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 7 points 4 months ago (4 children)

In the early years fo Reddit, those wouldn't exist either. You have to start with bigger groups (NFL, NHL, etc) and split them if they ever get big enough.

[–] CafecitoHippo@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Even the NFL one, the front page of posts the most comments is 10.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Discoverability is a serious issue on Lemmy. I'd wager there's a shitload of people here interested in the big US sports, but unless you know where the community is (and there's often multiple, and sometimes on instances you're not linked to), you're not going to see it.

There's just not enough users for any algorithm pushing of obscure communities you might be interested in either.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago

!communitypromo@lemmy.ca had a thread about sport communities recently

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago

!communitypromo@lemmy.ca had a thread about sport communities recently

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