Following Sports on Mastodon
Since I refuse to engage with Twitter when able, I'm enjoying Mastodon for my Women's World Cup coverage conversation. My top advice is to follow the hashtags for the sporting event(s) you care about. This means that posts using that hashtag, by anyone, will appear in my timeline as if I was following that user.
So I'm following #WWC, #WWC2023, and #FIFAWWC and getting a nice and manageable amount of posts about the Women's World Cup game right now.
The other thing I did was for posting. I installed an app called Espanso (props to Adam Gessaman for the recommendation.) The reason being I can now type a shortened string and have it put in the above hashtags to ensure my post reaches other people interested in the topic. The hashtag usage is critical for Mastodon given it's search limitations.
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US vs England this weekend was the most watched men's soccer game in the US, ever
As it turns out there are some details and exceptions, etc. The reddit thread dives into them.
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Ted Lasso writing to Jordan Morris is NOT something I knew I needed today
Jordan Morris is a Seattle native, who plays for the Seattle Sounders, and who has overcome two ACL tears such that he is about to play in his first-ever World Cup for the US team.
'#GimmeSomeMorris' is a new hashtag I will be using regularly.
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"Why I Love the Un-American Football"
I will eventually migrate the entire post over, but for now, it seems fitting to link to my old Wordpress blog for the article I published during the 2014 World Cup.
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Joe Biden has ties to US Soccer, from the Philadelphia Union to helping pitch for the 2026 World Cup
"It's the most unusual sporting event I've ever attended, and I've attended thousands probably in my career," said Biden, who's been to three World Cups (two men's, one women's). "It's a feel, and you can feel it even before you get anywhere near the stadium. You can feel it before you even land. It's in the air. It's a palpable sense of energy that I've never quite experienced before. And it's consequential. It is the most consequential sporting event in the world, and it's amazing how not just interested, but how deeply, deeply, deeply passionate every country is about the World Cup."
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