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.

  • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.com
    116·
    17 hours ago

    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

        • 4am@lemm.ee
          51·
          7 hours ago

          The point is that most people won’t participate in a community that’s the same bot, posting headlines over and over, with 1 upvote and 0 comments, day in and day out. I’ve blocked so many of those (especially the ones who’s RSS feed only refreshes like once a day and they vomit like 30 stories at once into some community that shows up in my All feed blocking out everything else for miles of scrolling.)

          You need users expressing their interest via posting. It’s community editorializing that makes platforms like this interesting, from Slashdot and Fark all the way to Lemmy today.

      • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.com
        42·
        13 hours ago

        Thanks for your opinion. Do you post in that community? Do you have a better idea? If you can answer both questions with no I would ask what differs your post from spam.

        • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
          21·
          12 hours ago

          I’m not a sports fan what so ever but in other communities bots have been tried and it didn’t go well.

            • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
              3·
              1 hour ago

              The last one I looked at was the LTT community

              It had nothing but bots and the occasional user talking about how much the hate LTT

              • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.com
                1·
                54 minutes ago

                Well, there you have the exact meaning of anecdotal evidence. It does not count at all. Also, it is assuming causation instead of corellation.

                And ltt is a great example for a place thats quite incompatible with the fediverse. Linus is a good pipeline to get peeps into computers but not a great person, sadly.

                That said, the person asking specifically wanted NEWS. Can you umagine how your goals differ?