Anyone have a list of active sports shorts comms? I was just trying to find some, but even nfl@lemmy.world was barren.

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    5 months ago

    During Reddit’s APIcalypse, people made a bunch of Sports related communities to try and mirror Reddit’s experience, but we simply don’t have the user base here to support team-focused communities, so most of them just sit there. People ran game-day bots for a while, but then realized the poor bot was only talking to itself, and turned them all off.

    Fanaticus.social is trying to be what you want, so I would look there.

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    5 months ago

    We have a few (Canadian) ones listed in the sidebar or !canada@lemmy.ca

    The list never got completed however. I’ll check back on this post later maybe

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      5 months ago

      Thanks. I’m trying to get my brother over to lemmy. First thing he asked was, how’s the sports comms?

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        5 months ago

        Great to hear!

        Some of the communities are quiet, but you’ll find that people engage with your posts when you make them. Especially if there are a good number of subscribers for them

        You can also post on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca or !newcommunities@lemmy.world if you’re reviving one, so that others can see

        Finally, if you’re in contact with the mods on Reddit for a particular team, see if they’d be interested in having the Lemmy community be the official off-site space for the subreddit. People that want to talk about the team without ads/tracking/annoying UI can come here for it

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    5 months ago

    Lemmy hates sports. I don’t know why. Maybe they’re all scared that the CLEVELAND GUARDIANS ARE TAKING THE MLB BY STORM!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

    No. I haven’t been drinking. Why do you ask?

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        5 months ago

        You’re either a fan of the blue jays, or you just found the video of the time Randy Johnson made a bird explode with his pitching. And I’m not sure which. I don’t speak hieroglyphs.

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          5 months ago

          I was laughing at your comment, showing a love of baseball, and poorly trying to show I’m a birds fan