This is an off-the-cuff brainstorm to grow /c/NBA and the fediverse.
Lemmy and the fediverse have scene solid and steady growth since the reddi API-ocalypse.
However, we had a more active year our first year compared to this year (so far) in /c/NBA. Probably in no small part to the lack of high seas support on this instance.
I have been pondering on how to grow this community but also make it unique in NBA/sports fandom.
I am gravitating towards some group-oriented ideas–a little pretend gambling, a little streamlined fantasy sportsing (hyper simplified), some end of season award voting, etc.
Before elaborating on anything in particular: does anyone have some big ideas they’ve been sitting on they’d like to share? I will share some below as well.
imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Hey guys, I’ve been on Lemmy since the APIcalypse and I’m a big Knicks fan, and really sports fan in general. It’s a bit of a chicken or the egg problem with the sports communities on Lemmy, because I feel like there are actually more fans on Lemmy than we realize. But when the communities seem dead, people stop using them, and it’s a vicious cycle. For some reason I never actually subscribed to this community in the first place, but I’ll try to do my part from now on.
First of all I think keeping everything in one community is a must, like people initially went way too fast on trying to create team specific communities before building a generalized NBA community here.
I agree that incorporating the high seas would be a good idea, but it’s also really disruptive to try to migrate to another server. Perhaps a workaround would be creating a separate community on a piracy friendly server and linking it from here when necessary.
But really the main thing is pretty simple: we all need to get out of our shells a bit and try to post and comment more often, and hopefully things should build momentum from there.