How to make the Fediverse more appealing for following sports?? (communick.news)

submitted 5 days ago by rglullis@communick.news to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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.

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[-] Quokka@quokk.au 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

This is something I’ve been working on lately.

I’ve created !sports@quokk.au, a general sports community as we lack the userbase for too many fragmented comms for each sport/team especially niche ones.

The instance runs on PyLova which supports tags and flairs, so you can view only NFL, WNBA, Football, AFL, or etc posts (Posts from Lemmy unfortunately don’t get or set this information).

I’ve also added a Live Post feature to PyLova, so if there was a big game on people could have the post open and auto see new comments come in as people talk about it live.

I would love some more ideas on how we can execute this, as I agree it’s something missing from the Threadiverse. In the meantime I’ll start work on adding a live score counter feature and see how Reddit does it.

The one thing I can’t program however is user engagement via commenting. That’s something people are just going to have to do as they discover the community.