For context, my knowledge of current football is almost non existent.
Yearly football doesn’t appeal a lot to me, but what I like about the Euro or the World Cup is seeing a large number of countries represented, and the popular enthusiasm during the matches.
I have fond memories of watching matches on a giant screen or at a friend’s house, and no matter what the outcome, it’s generally a great time.
So two questions:
- would you guys be interested in a !euro2024@instance community? It would be mainly for match feeds and sharing other news.
- Would anyone be interested in a prediction contest? You don’t have to know a thing about it, it’s usually the people who know the least who win.
I think there is no need for a new community or instance for it, this is a small community anyway, let it grow, Euros are good for that.
Tbh, I think you could just use this community for that. There’s really no other European football going on at the same time as the Euros. Creating a new community won’t have many members (from the already small pool available). It’s not like Euros is off-topic for this community.
Like others, I’d keep it on this community, but it would be fun to have a prediction contest as well as match threads and general discussion.
Not sure if it’s possible to have some sort of flair system to help identify Euro24 posts and/or user affiliation. I asssume not, as not seen flairs on Lemmy, but you never know.
I may not know a lot about current football, but I’m still very knowledgeable about players from 20 years ago, thank you FIFA 2003
I think it’s unnecessary. Everything can just happen in this community imho.
Certainly looking forward to the tournament though.
I don’t mind a community for it, but not on a new instance. If it could give https://soccer.forum get the exposure it needs, that would be epic.
Is the bridge getting posts still active? @rglullis@communick.news, are you still planning to keep all of those topic-based instances active?
If you end up making one, I would not make it an year specific, so that it can be used again next time.
Good point, but based on the feedback we’ll probably just have this happening here
I’m the same really I used to follow Newcastle but lost interest when they got relegated. I do try to watch the big events though the only one I couldn’t was the African World Cup were it was constant vuvuzella noise or whatever the heck their called.
