I feel like most of the writing communities are also pretty inactive. I'm not sure why. I liked reading short stories on Reddit, and I don't like looking at memes. I'm not sure whether it's a good thing (because I don't use Lemmy as often that way) or a bad thing.

I guess I could spam them with public-domain stories or reposts or something, but I feel like that's just losing the plot.

Literally just post everything you find interesting and upvote elsewhere

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.

Sports are dumb anyway!

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 !womenshockey@reddthat.com 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 !hockey@lemmy.ca however the reception there is decidedly frigid. The community has about doubled in size since I started posting regularly.

I thought the exact same thing when i joined. Today while working on my project car I decided to take pictures and make a post sometime over the next few days when I'm done with the task. Hopefully someone sees it and starts discussion and adds content to one of the niche communities here that was actually one of my favorite non toxic subs on shitty ass reddit.

We get to build these communities and it's kind of exciting 🤙

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:

!formula1@lemmy.world with nearly 10k subscribers.

But importantly there's also a place for shitposting and meming for the sport in a separate community:

!formuladank@lemmy.world with 4.1k subscribers.

So for every one subscriber to the main community there is about 1 subscription to the meme community.

Having a small community means you will not attract all the toxic people most of the time.

For me Lemmy feels like s small town ( New Hope, Pennsylvania) with mostly nicer people, while Reddit is a big town (New York) that is well known, but you have a lot more assholes.😅

And honestly, I really enjoy Lemmy for that.🙂

On lemmy.ca we have semi-active Hockey pages, especially due to the playoffs, check out !hockey@lemmy.ca, 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.

I wont discount your assessment of the overlap (or lack thereof) between the lemmy demo and sports demo. But I’ll submit to you a factor you, and many others, may not have considered. I fit into both demos but simply lost all interest in keeping up with sports after the pandemic. It just really put into perspective how much they don’t matter to me and I haven’t gotten back into them. I’m curious if this happened in any kind of significant amount. And things haven’t progressed in the world to make getting back into them a big desire. I do still tune in the occasional Stanley Cup playoff game if I happen to come across it with nothing better going on. But I haven’t made sports a primary hobby of mine since 2019 and I don’t think I’m ever going to again. And it used to be my primary hobby. I wasn’t fantasy league and sport book level, but I scheduled life around games and teams and spent lots of time in forums.

I was hoping to post more often in the SF Giants instance. But with this post. I will try again. We need more sports options outside of Reddit.

Crazy idea: use a bot? A lot of communities already do it to help with lack of folks where the techies dont regularly post. You can still get your news here and you will likely attract other folks like you (maybe tell them over on other places that we now have sports news). Just trying to help

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.

We’re here there’s just not a lot of us yet

Everyone’s already hit the high points.

Sports fanbase tends to not be a tech base, which Lemmy primarily is.

Sports are paywalled to hell and back, the userbase here is far more inclined to avoid paywalls and the content behind it.

People dislike the celebrity gossip and stuffed suits surrounding sports.

My own personal disregard for sports leans more towards the dislike of the monied celebrity of the entire genre, the worship of the players, and the pointless obsession and discussion of things like stats that have all the meaning of dowsing rods. But that’s literally just my opinion and obviously plenty of people feel otherwise.

As a Canadian, it's the one place I can go to Canadian communities and not be completely buried by fucking hockey. Even this whole elbows up thing is fucking terrible. I get why. I understand that people have been indoctrinated to this and it's part of their identity here. I don't understand why it has to be absolutley everywhere though.

Go Bills, fellow Reddit expat and I definitely miss just getting news posted about the team and Lemmy is nowhere near that level of activity. I’ve ended up just going back to old.Reddit and browsing new here and there - no commenting, not logged in, so it’s not nearly as time consuming as it used to be. Hopefully someday people will use Lemmy for stuff like this!

We like sports and we don't care who knows.

Lemmy has sports communities? ;)

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

As a Sabres fan, I don't have much to say lol