excited to try this out

3 years ago by Sampson7185 to c/hockey

Started looking at some Reddit alternatives today with the upcoming change to API policy. This seems like a cool option that lines up with my values. Super pumped to find a hockey community here as that was my main interest on Reddit. Still trying to figure out exactly how to use Lemmy, so any tips would be appreciated! Any team specific communities? I'm a leafs fan for reference

abrahamisaninja 6 points 3 years ago

Kings fan here. I hope this thing takes off so we can have individual team spaces and all the stuff we had on Reddit.

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Yazee 4 points 3 years ago

I honestly didn't know leafs fans could use technology.

Tips: watch out for zamboni drivers in net.

Seriously, welcome. Nucks fan here, so I'll hold off on any major chirping

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AwpZoomer 3 points 3 years ago

Good to see that our fan base will get chirped no matter where we go. It's comforting

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Thirdnipple79 1 point 3 years ago

Here we go. Now it's a real hockey community.

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Sampson7185 1 point 3 years ago

I'll keep that tip in mind, I think we have some aging vets that your team is primed to sign for too long and too much money ;)

Looking forward to participating in this community!

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Yazee 2 points 3 years ago

Jokes on you. We just got rid of luongos contract, so we can over sign a bunch of past their prime vets.

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reddfugee 4 points 3 years ago

NYR fan, here for the chirps and general bants o7

I think the thing I am most wanting for will be GDT/PGTs. Using Hockey Discord for now, but would be willing to put some effort in on that side if this community gains traction.

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RedditBot 2 points 3 years ago

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Thirdnipple79 3 points 3 years ago

It's still early in this hockey community. Nobody has even been chirping Leafs fans yet. Enjoy the moment.

I'm just trying to get this one more active and trying to post stuff regularly since I couldn't find any other active hockey community. If more people come I'm sure some team communities will pop up.

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RedditBot 1 point 3 years ago

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rolling 0 points 3 years ago

Thank you for effort so far to get the community going!

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Thirdnipple79 2 points 3 years ago

I love hockey. Everyone that's participated in this community so far has been awesome. I think we are lucky on the timing. It would have been a lot harder to get people active after the cup finals and especially after the draft.

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lackthought 3 points 3 years ago

Hurricanes fan, checking in!

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Owaissa 3 points 3 years ago

Same. Hope we have GDT in place by next season!

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Thirdnipple79 1 point 3 years ago

We are doing one for all the remaining games this year. It's not really very refined at this point but post your suggestions in the next one and we can work on building a good system out as a community.

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baronvonj 1 point 3 years ago

GDT == Game Day Thread? Any reason people can't just post a thread? I created !usmlr@lemmy.ml (check it out if you're a rugby fan) and have been posting match threads manually. Are there bots that

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Thirdnipple79 2 points 3 years ago

Yeah we posted the last game day thread manually. It would be nice to work out some fancier formatting for next year but we have all summer and hopefully there will be some improvements to lemmy by then too so we will see what can be done.

I love watching rugby but I still don't quite understand all the rules and I know dick all about any of the players. If you want I can try to add your community in our sidebar. Hopefully I can add some text there that says friends of c/hockey. I'm still learning here.

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pancake 2 points 3 years ago

Hi, welcome! Here are a few hopefully helpful links:

https://browse.feddit.de/ a list of communities across the lemmyverse.
https://lemmy.one/post/1600 a nice post summarizing some interesting ones.
https://lemmymap.feddit.de/ a map of instances and their federation status.

Also, it works pretty much like Reddit. You can sort by New, Hot etc., but you can also filter whether you see posts from communities you're subscribed to, from all communities in your instance, or from all currently federated communities from any instance. Communities and instances have mods and sidebar, and there is a public modlog so everyone can see what actions have been recently taken. You can also create communities and moderate them yourself. Enjoy!

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baronvonj 2 points 3 years ago

Well .... 😄 I moved to Canada in '88 from England, just in time to learn about ice hockey as a Flames fan the year they won the cup. A few years later the Northstars moved to Dallas after 4 straight seasons in the playoffs and I thought that was lame. I'm actually from Texas, and moved back there like a year after that, but stayed a Flames fan. I kind of dropped off from following hockey for a few years, and got back into it in my last few years of college, amid the heyday of the Stars v Avalanche playoffs rivalry. Still a Flames fan but still screw the not-the-Northstars so also an Avs fan. Then I moved to Minnesota after college in 2000, in time for the inaugural season of the Wild, so Wild fan. We crushed Dallas 6-0 in the first match-up, Dallas is allowed to have their team now. I've been back in Texas for like 20 years now, so now I'm a Stars fan (but I'll still cheer on my other 3 teams, and also Bruins, Blackhawks, and Habs). 😆 They did really build up a hockey culture in Dallas that I think helped boost availability of both youth leagues and adult rec leagues in Houston and Austin (and probably San Antonio but I never lived there). I played in rec leagues on and off, but am fully retired now due to neck problems.

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altalus 2 points 3 years ago

Habs fan here, let's see how this thing work!

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PacketGain 2 points 3 years ago

Anaheim Ducks fan representing!

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Sampson7185 2 points 3 years ago

Sad you guys lost out on Bedard, would have been awesome with all your young talent

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PacketGain 2 points 3 years ago

Yeah, the draft lottery stung a little bit, but Fantilli is a stud and will do great things for our team.

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Thirdnipple79 1 point 3 years ago

Wish we had some team flairs here.

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abrahamisaninja 1 point 3 years ago

Are flairs possible in this place?

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Thirdnipple79 2 points 3 years ago

Not as far as I know. I'm hopeful it's something they add.

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4lphalfa 1 point 3 years ago

Another Canucks fan here. I never really participated in the reddit hockey community besides lurking around. Maybe I'll try and engage here more while there are less people around.

It doesn't look like there are too many team specific communities. It probably won't hurt to set them up now if people want. I personally think lemmy's still small enough that we'll need to put more love into the main hockey community to get it built up.

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Sampson7185 1 point 3 years ago

Yeah I didn't participate much on Reddit at all but I feel a bit more inclined given the size of this community. Team specific can come later if needed, just happy to find some other hockey fans!

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snota 2 points 3 years ago

Whenever I commented there there was a 50% chance of getting a snarky comment that really put me off most of the time. I hope this community stays positive for a while.

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snota 1 point 3 years ago

Go Nucks

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n7gifmdn 1 point 3 years ago

#MNWILD #fuckNormGreen

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IslanderGose 1 point 3 years ago

Sens fan here. Welcome aboard!

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SpicyCamerones 1 point 3 years ago

Sharks fan checking in. Hoping this place starts to take off too.

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