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It would be so much better if I could just block an instance called “Lemmy.sports”.

Ironically, I’m part of a sports-only instance. I’m not sure if you can block an instance as a user, but hopefully one day we can emerge as a predominant sports instance and you can just block us, thereby eliminating most sports-related posts from your feed. Good luck with this issue, and sorry in advance for all the individual sport/team posts you will see from us in the future.

I, for one, welcome our new Braves overlords.

I feel bad for that guy who bet two grand on the over. Joey surely would’ve hit it if they didn’t have a weather delay.

Done.

Also, search is weird on Lemmy. If no one on your instance has looked up the specific community then you won’t find it in search. The entire url has to be searched by someone on your instance before it will show up in a keyword search. Part of the growing pains of Lemmy and a big reason why there are several duplicate communities across instances.

If you make a comment or post on that community I’ll make you a mod.

I also do have a Miami community on the sports-focused instance that I am a part of. Feel free to crosspost over there as well (or I can make you a mod there too if you want).

https://fanaticus.social/c/miamihurricanes

!miamihurricanes@fanaticus.social

/c/miamihurricanes@fanaticus.social

As a neutral fan, I’m rooting for UF. As a [brand new] fan of weird baseball stats, it would be absolutely incredible if LSU won this one by one run.

That is awesome!

I miss banana plant guy already. Gone too soon.

grand salami

The Grand Salami betting option is a cumulative over/under bet for all the games on a given baseball or hockey slate.

I learned something new today. Also feeling a little hungry now.

Oof.

I love this for two reasons:

1. We got our first report for this instance.
2. The report was for a post by the instance admin.

Never change Reddit Lemmy!

I typically take a trip to Kauai every other year. I’ve not yet done a helicopter tour but this photo makes me want to do one the next time that I’m on island. Beautiful!

This is cool! Now I just need a version for CFB players.

What we’re missing in this community most is the content though. I know a lot of you might just be lurkers but the grand experiment that is lemmy will only work out if we start generating our own content.

Agree 100%. If you check out my Reddit profile I have probably no comments and no posts (I usually delete them after a day or two over there). But in all honesty, I think I’ve made one or two posts total in just under ten years, and I’ve only commented maybe five or six times in the same timeframe. I prefer lurking, but I can’t effectively lurk if there is no content to read. At that point, it just makes more sense to go back to Reddit (which is not what I want to do).

If you are reading this, search “Yankees news” or “NFL news” or whatever community that you are interested in on a search engine and post an article link to a community. It’s as simple as that. Everything that I’ve posted over the last few days was found using that approach. You never know who might be interested in that topic even if you aren’t, and that will draw more users here to comment and post things for you to read.

We will either succeed or fail as a community, and having only three or four users posting things will not be enough to succeed. A year from now I hope to be lurking again with the rest of you.

What I’ve been doing just to try and grow sports discussion on Lemmy as a whole is crossposting any of our posts into a corresponding community on a different instance and vice versa. Example, I’ve crossposted the Giants schedule from !nygiants@lemmy.world into our NY Giants community. I’m not hoping for any particular community to be the premier community for a sport/team, I just want to increase the chances that new users can find a community that gets them the content that they are looking for. We have gotten several users from other instances in the past few days so I think the concept is working!

I joined Reddit to follow college football, and I’m hoping to help grow Lemmy enough to have quality discussions here as well.