Post #4622709 · Elektrine

2026-08-28 14:04 UTC

How to make the Fediverse more appealing for following sports?? I still believe that getting access to sports news and commentary would be one of the sure-fire ways to get more people in the Fediverse. But even after all these years, Reddit, Twitter and Instagram obviously completely dominate the space. In the US, the NFL is starting in a couple of weeks and the NBA will come back in October. There is also the European Football (Soccer) leagues which started this month, so the thought came to mind again: what could we have that could make the conversation around professional sports more interesting… Specific apps or sites that act as a multi-platform client, to let you follow short clips from Loops, or posts from specific communities or athletes? Real time scores and match threader bots? A (local, user-controlled) recommendation algorithm to manage different news sources? Integration with fantasy leagues? Maybe I am barking at the wrong tree and/or the majority of people here do not care about it enough, but I would like to hear some ideas to see if there is anything we could do.

Replies (5)

@mrdown@lemmy.world 2026-08-28 14:13

An instance dedicated for sport

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@brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2026-08-29 01:48

Lemmy and Piefed need a “subcommunity” structure to get that ball rolling IMO. EG you may have an overarching “sports” community, and in layers: sports -> basketball -> NBA -> team So if your team sub was kinda dead, you could browse /c/NBA or /c/basketball and get a wider feed of other teams. Similarly, you could mark non-spammy posts to “filter up” to the higher communities that accept it. So you make a post in your team community, and folks browsing basketball might see it, depending on their settings. Permissions would be granular to set this up, consensual for both the “upper” and “lower” communities. I’ve written this up as a more general proposal ti help niche communities, but have yet to put it on the development gits as a feature request.

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@classic@fedia.io 2026-08-28 15:35

the fundamental problem IMO is searching. most people want a straightforward path to a place to view content and the fediverse is weak on that.

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@OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world 2026-08-30 09:12

As far as I know reddit just uses APIs or straight up scrapes data to create their live game posts. (Fucking hypocrites). Is there anything stopping the fediverse from doing such a thing?

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@mo_lave@reddthat.com 2026-09-01 05:07

How helpful would federating with sports-related topics in Flipboard be?

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