User flair. I know it’s probably not that high on the list for most who might see it as a gimmick, but it’s almost essential for sports discussion to know what team a user supports. I’m sure many other communities have compelling reasons as well.

We’ve grown by almost 200 subscribers in the last week and there’s always room for more!

probably the most active gridiron football community on Lemmy

No probably about it, and not even just gridiron football. A quick search on lemmyverse.net shows we have more weekly active users than even !football@lemmy.world (the biggest soccer community)