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[–] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

slightly niche

Sports is like the most mainstream of interests, and lemmy still doesn't have a critical mass of sports discussion in general, much less specific sports/leagues, specific teams, specific games/matches, or specific players.

So I keep my reddit sports account.

I also keep an account for my local city subreddit, and one for my career field, because Lemmy doesn't have those either.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

I'm the main poster on !football@sopuli.xyz. Most popular post on the planet.

I guess people on Lemmy just don't like sports.

[–] ter_maxima@jlai.lu 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I'll subscribe, since it's about the real kind of football (the one that's played with your feet, and a ball. Not an egg, and your hands)

I've been trying to get into sports. Always enjoyed parricipating sports, never tried watching.

[–] Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Hell even !music@lemmy.world (as far as I can tell, the biggest one on the platform) only has like 10k subs, like a dozen posts today, and basically all of the posts were people just advertising music. Zero discussion.

Even for things i would think are big, the communities here are still vanishingly small. I joined reddit in like 2014 and even back then it was more popular than Lemmy is now

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I see good discussions on

Not really into music myself, I guess the issue might be that it's too generic? Even on Reddit I don't think /r/music was that busy, too many different genres

[–] Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 hours ago

Not sure why you referenced the LW version when I mentioned the piefed.social ones, but

Number of posts themselves isn't really that relevant, comments are usually a more interesting metric.