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I notice a dearth of sports communities on beesaw. Am I missing something or should I create one?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

There's pretty active communities on other instances too:

You could subscribe to those.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

There's the Sports community you can use for NFL discussion if you specifically want it to be on Beehaw. It open to any and all sports discussion.

Otherwise you'd need to create it in another instance that federates with Beehaw.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Ah, I'm still a noob. I can't create a beehaw NFL community?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Beehaw is an instance that doesn't allow you to create your own communities. They want a smaller amount of communities that are more active rather than a large amount of smaller, less active communities.

Other instances let you create communities, but that's why I'm on Beehaw. It's a bit more curated and I feel cuts out a lot of noise I don't need.

So yeah, I'd say just use the Sports community if you want to stick with Beehaw but if this instance isn't meshing with you there's no harm in making one in say, Divisions by Zero for example. They allow you to make communities and are federated with Beehaw so people here could still interact.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Got it. Thank you for the assistance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nope, only admins can create communities on beehaw, and there's already a sports one. Luckily you can find or create one on another instance!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can I ask the admins for an NFL specific community?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Probably, but I highly doubt that they'd go for it at this point. I imagine that they'd probably just politely direct you to the extant sports community!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I try and make a concerted effort to post NFL stories on the sports community

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's mostly baseball but check out https://fanaticus.social

Edit: hmm might be down right now...I posted some Twins stuff earlier today

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'd so go for creating one. As much as the NFL infuriates me, I'm also hopelessly a Vikings fan and would enjoy having a space to engage in those conversations.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Only admins are able to create new communities on Beehaw, and there's already a sports community so there's not really a need for a more specific one for a single sport. Also, I'm pretty sure there are already communities for specific sports/leagues/teams on other instances that you can use with a Beehaw account thanks to the beauty of federation!

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