It does feel like a small town. Most small towns don't have pro sports teams, though.
this post was submitted on 17 May 2025
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Oh shit this reminds me of a discussion I had on here a while ago when I found out there are only 40,000 daily active users on average and realizing that it was less than half of th capacity of highmark stadium. So yeah, Lemmy does have that small town vibe but its more of a small geographic community like, for example, New England or Western New York. I can go to any Bills game with 80,000 other fans and I can take a piss or grab a beer without running into someone I know. Its exactly the same with Lemmy too.
Dude. Sports is literally everywhere. It doesn't need to reach its greedy tendrils into yet another corner of society.
Yeah, we prefer real news.
Sports coverage might as well be celebrity gossip for as much relevance it has when the world is going to shit.
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Wow. I didn't realize so many people here were anti sports. Interesting.
I do miss the sports from Reddit so I still go back for that. But I've also decided to try to be the change ... So I've started to post more in the sports communities around here.
It's probably the last thing I still go back to Reddit for. Otherwise Lemmy is my go to.
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"I like the absence of corporate shills and ads." Also, why doesn't anyone talk about sports teams owned by billionaires and corporations?
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I'm not a sports guy, I'm pretty anti-sports actually (I can go on absolutely unhinged TED talks about how the local teams are trying to drain the city for taxes... I want to continue, so feel free to ask but not doing it here.) But I agree with you on the niche hobbies and local flavor.
I still have to use Reddit because there hasn't been a good community for local on Lemmy (yes, I know everyone going "it's user generated" but I'm like 1 of 5 instead of the hundreds still on reddit) and small hobbies in a lot of the crafting world is non-existent on Lemmy.
I don't have an answer on this one, just sucks. It's the trouble of being one of the first ones in the door.
So this is the type of discussion I was hoping for. I honestly didn't even mean to trigger so many people by bringing up sports when the whole showerthought started cuz I missed my local team's subreddit.
I can go on absolutely unhinged TED talks about how the local teams are trying to drain the city for taxes...
Don't even get me started, we are in the same paddle boat when it comes to the ownership and the league's use of tax payer dollars. The fucking Bills just set some sort of record I think for the new stadium they built by the belligerently small amount of money the owners are going to be contributing. The fuckin thing is costing billions and its just about entirely funded by 2 channels from the same source, the people of our our community. 1 channel is thru taxes and the other is thru some PPE shit where if you want to buy season tickets you need to give them like $40,000 as a one time fee into of the season ticket cost and also commit to like 10 seasons to even be able to buy a season ticket.
I know your reply will be "then why are you a fan still" so ill bashfully explain why in one word, community. The WNY community is my favorite part of the greater Buffalo/Niagara region and being apart of Billsmafia is such a huge part of it. We've never been a champion, until 5 years ago there were no bandwagons of fans looking to become Bills fans, its something you are just born into here. We put up with 8 ft snow storms, 17 years of missing the playoffs, losing 4 super bowls in a row, Damar Hamlin going into a freak occurrence of cardiac arrest and needing 10 mins of CPR to survive, and thats just the big stuff. At the end of the day tho, it forms a bond in the community like I've never seen anywhere else. When Josh's Allen's grandmother died, Billsmafia raised millions of dollars for his charity which came in $17 increments (his jersey number), now today there is an entire wing at Oshea's Children's Hospital dedicated to his grandmother's name all funded by fans and member of the community. When we got dumped on with 6 ft of snow in 2 days, Bills players drover around house to house in skidsters plowing out people's driveways. When Andy Dalton beat the Ravens against all odds and made it so the Bills would go to the playoffs breaking a 17 year long drought, Andy isnt even a Buffall Bills player he plays for Cincinnati but that didn't stop Billsmafia from raising hundreds of thousands if not over a million dollars for Andy's charity.
The idiots who own teams and run the league can get fucked, ill never argue against that but the men and women within each and every organization who have their boots on the ground, they are all amazing humans busting their ass off to make theirs and our community the best they possibly can.
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Thats because sports are shit, I hope they stay out.
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.
Sports are dumb anyway!
So original and edgy! To each their own🍻
I should have used /s, just joshin
Just look at the rest of these comments... the /s was definitely needed unfortunately.
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When the sports centric folk start appearing here in large numbers so will a lot of the garbage that comes with having a non tech userbase.
As a sports fan (NHL, NFL, NBA, ATP) I feel lucky to have a bunch of sports fan coworkers. We talk sports and joke around at work all day.
I do wish the sports communities on lemmy were more active. It seems like lemmy’s left-wing community does not have very many sports fans.
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Try being into less mainstream sports. It's like me and one other guy talking to each other over on [email protected]
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Ewww keep that shit away from this space. We don't need brain-addled concussion-full roided up meatheads on Lemmy.
Same as they're not needed irl but I guess some of you all sniffed a little too much lead paint to agree.
Come on man, let people like what they like. I literally couldn't care less about sports, and have many issues with the amount of money that goes towards them, but that doesn't mean I'm going to shit on someone just for enjoying them.
I've been an athlete my whole life. I don't get why more tech savvy people have this absolute disdain for people who enjoy sports. Like, I get it, maybe some of the athletes at your school picked on you. Sweet. I was an athlete and ALSO got picked on by people. Constantly. I'm in my 30's now, and stopped dwelling on that shit in college. Move on, you know?
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There's an easier way to just say you suck at physical things.
Posting something like this just makes you look really bitter.
Most people I know that are obsessed with sports are some of the laziest sacks of flesh Ive seen. Almost none of them do any physical activity other than yelling at the screen over their fat beer gut.
Sitting on the couch watching mind numbing idiotic games of men in tight cloths running after a ball does not make you athletic or fit, if that's what you're thinking.
People hate sports cause it's one of the lowest forms of entertainment, and because the people who enjoy it are misbhaved degenerates and obnoxious.
Watching sports is just the easiest thing you can immerse in without needing any significant mental capability or capacity.
You do understand that all it is is just stupid games to distract all of you.
It is unethical, it wastes huge amounts of resources, it is connected to racism nationalism and all kinds of nasty shit.
Enjoy watching Millioners kicking a ball on your flatscreen
Geez, for someone complaining about how dumb sport fans are, this sure is some fucking atrociously bad-quality writing.
I've*. misbehaved*. racism, nationalism, and* (though the Oxford comma is optional). millionaires* (note: this is both correcting the spelling and the Random capital letter).
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Or we are all just a bunch of nerds with better things to do than watch the people who used to beat us up.
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The shit in these comments is why Lemmy is doomed to be a minor platform that will inevitably fizzle out.
Seriously people, there are other interests besides Linux and politics. If we bully out other interests from starting communities on Lemmy it'll never grow out of obscurity... some may like that but I'd personally like to see it grow into something that can actually compete with Reddit.
I say this as someone who doesn't like sports at all, but we have these magical things called filters for people like me!
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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.
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.
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ESPNs fees and blackouts exhausted me.
If folks want to gather around and cheer for a sport again, I'm in.
But I'm waiting for a DRM free, non-geo-locked, consistent, reliable Livestream URL. It can be paid, but there probably needs to be free tier to get me interested.
I get that I'm asking a lot, since streaming isn't cheap. But I refuse to believe it's as burdensome as ESPN makes it.
Edit: To be clear - please link me to your favorite non-ESPN sports streaming services, and I'll check them out. Thanks in advance!
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.🙂
Easy enough to block the sports communities from your feed if you browse c/all if you dont like them. I say someone set up the sports communities and start posting articles to see if we can get more adoption by the sports folks over here. I dont have the patience for sports but more users is good. Some sports people are obnoxious but some certainly aren't (Bill Bppurr comes to mind) and userbase growth is needed.
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