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SPORTS! The sports subreddits for specific leagues or teams were some of my most visited. I always hated r/NFL though because the mods only really allowed twitter links rather than legit discussion. I'm going to try and be as active as I can in the NFL and NBA communities here, and I might open some for my favorite teams.
This is actually a great opportunity to organically develop communities like r/NBAdiscussion but for other leagues. I always found reddit to be lacking a real football discussion subreddit, and r/NFL had such strict rules you couldn't even talk about relevant topics, such as EA and the NFL exclusive license (any Madden-related post would be auto-removed and told to post on r/Madden), and you also couldn't advertise an NFL discussion based sub anywhere either.
There's got to be an overlap between Lemmy users and sports fans! I can't be the only tech nerd who is interested in the fediverse and also loves American sports!
Agreed. For me it’s motorsports. There’s an existing F1 community but it’s not very active. I’m hopeful that it’ll grow and we’ll see other communities form around it for other sports.
I prefer formuladank personally but idk if I'd be welcome here
I made a motorsport community yesterday link . it's very empty at the moment but hopefully it'll grow with time.
I really like posting in my local team's subreddits, as it really does feel like a tight nit community. Especially since my teams are not that great, the ones that actually still participate are the diehards.
Yeah, one of the few things I still use reddit for regularly is NHL discussion. (Go Capitals!) I wish we had communities for that here.
The other subreddits I still use regularly are for specific video games. Some of them really have no hope of making it to lemmy, but I think we could probably fit pokemon discussion and trading stuff here.
I expect a large influx of redditors over the next few months, especially when they kill off old.reddit and the 3rd party apps no longer work. So if you create (if it isn't already created) an NHL and Pokemon community here, I'm sure users will find them and they would become active eventually. We are decently early here in my opinion.
I figured it had to be coming, but I haven't heard yet about old.reddit being killed. Is that going to happen at the same time as the third-party apps?
Getting rid of old.reddit is just a guess of mine. They got rid of i.reddit recently which was the old mobile version, so it seems like a logical next move since a lot of the new reddit features don't work on old.reddit.
There's always a chance they keep old.reddit for a long time, but they have no profit incentive to do so
Looks like an NFL community has been created. Just need to get them going for the other sports as well.
Yeah it exists, but it had only 10 members and one total post when I joined an hour ago. I just created a New York Giants community and I'm going to be posting to the NFL one throughout the season to help it grow!
An NBA community also exists at a similar size. I'll go ahead and create a Nets community for my team there.
Well, at least I've subbed to add one more to the list. I'll go comment in the 'favorite team' thread to at least kick things off in that thread as well.