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General communities:
- [email protected] always nice
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
You can probably add [email protected] (disclosure, I’m a moderator)
Hello!
Question for you: have you ever considered moving your community to another instance, like [email protected], to spread the communities a bit out of Lemmy.world?
Centralization creates technical issues, at the moment aussie.zone have a week delay with LW as it is too large ( https://lemmy.world/post/15634599 ). There was another issue in the past, where instances like lemmy.blahaj.zone, lemdro.id, lemmy.nz, reddthat.com were impacted : https://lemmy.world/post/13967373
I’m the most active postee there (hello again). I prefer LW’s gaming community for a few reasons, a lot of which are kind of petty but still.
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I dislike the shitjustworks domain name, I think it’ll hamper community growth when a casual user base joins and thinks it’s a dumb name
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The people there often mirror /r/games posts, there’s nothing wrong with that and I enjoy browsing it, but I enjoy the more quality over quantity of LW’s community
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[email protected] has clean icons and branding which is cool
But mostly it’s just reluctance to move away from the largest gaming community in Lemmy. Content is hard to find, and I talked about this many times, leaving LW communities means splitting the userbase even more and wondering where the content is. People are tired of migrating and just want to post and discuss. If having a large instance causes technical issues, that’s more of Lemmy’s problem IMO.
Hello,
Thank you for commenting!
I agree with you with points 1 and 2.
Content is hard to find, and I talked about this many times, leaving LW communities means splitting the userbase even more and wondering where the content is.
Agreed on discoverability, that’s why we now have those threads, and that [email protected] is featured at the top of LW’s home page.
On the other hand, sometimes it’s a bit frustrating. [email protected] is now more active and with more content than the LW version, but some people still keep posting to it, while we offered moderation position to anyone who would like to (looking at you, [email protected] ), and Lemm.ee is a well established instance with a neutral domain name.
I moved [email protected] to [email protected] , left a pinned post there so that people could find the new community, it’s more active now that it used to be on LW.
Anyway, that’s it for me, again thank you for your comment.
Additional small comment: just had a look at the community, well done for the AMA with the game developer!
To be honest, this community seems nice and we’ll run, my comment was more targeting at LW communities almost “name squatting”, which is definitely not the case here, well done!
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I’m only a moderator, that’s not a decision I’d be taking alone.
Problem is that a community as broad as a gaming one is bound to be subscribed my many user on many instances. Switching it to another one will only move the problem elsewhere, not fix it.
Still, if that’s a problem, we could research other courses of actions, like dividing LW in multiple sub-instances for broad topics. The idea would be to get all gaming related community on “games.lemmy.world”, and getting most games related communities to switch there, so external instances can subscribe to that specific instance without receiving all the other updates from other communities. That would also make it a lot easier to scale the servers to the right size for the right use.
But once again that’s not my decision to take.
Problem is that a community as broad as a gaming one is bound to be subscribed my many user on many instances. Switching it to another one will only move the problem elsewhere, not fix it.
Is it? I always feel like for every topic the schema is
- a community on LW
- a community on another instance that exists mostly to avoid centralization on LW
Examples
- [email protected] vs [email protected]
- [email protected] vs [email protected]
- [email protected] vs [email protected]
That does not automatically mean that the LW community is “too full”, just that some users want to use other instances as well
There was a while ago the example of [email protected] vs [email protected]
As the sopuli community was more active, the LW admins closed down the LW one to focus all the activity on a single community
The idea would be to get all gaming related community on “games.lemmy.world”, and getting most games related communities to switch there, so external instances can subscribe to that specific instance without receiving all the other updates from other communities.
Seems very close to just hosting communities on other instances? From your message, I feel like people on LW want to keep communities on “LW instances”, I’m wondering why. Is it due to distrust with other instances? Lemm.ee, sh.itjust.works and lemmy.zip have been around as long as LW, have transparent financial reports and high availability times.
From your message, I feel like people on LW want to keep communities on “LW instances”, I’m wondering why.
Because these communities are already there and are active, that’s why. Not everybody has to share your enthusiasm for removing communities from lemmy.world.
I’m talking about active communities on other instances who could be even more active if LW non active communities would redirect to them
MMO
No FFXIV community?
Already posted in another comment, but I edited this one as well
There’s also [email protected]
Didn’t know about this one, that’s nice, and they have almost as many followers as the LW one! Edited my comment
We have [email protected] if you’re wanting a local instance.
That’s the one I wanted to mention above, missed the xiv in the name
No worries. Easy mistake to make.
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] (lemmy.comfysnug.space) [email protected]
For jrpg genre take a look at
If you interrested in Nintendo or Playstation discussion i would recommend:
If you like to hear video game music take a look at:
Thanks, I was looking for this one!
There are so many communities for games (too many…) I’ll try to stick with the most active ones that haven’t been mentioned yet
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected] (this one actually has too many posts lol, sort by Active or New Comments or something)
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
Yes, gaming is definitely a huge topic on Lemmy
Still, the last four ones ha ha ha, do you think there could be a way to consolidate?
Consolidating is hard because I’m a bit of a hoarder so I can’t stand to unsubscribe from any of them lol. I don’t mind the duplicate posts so much. But maybe someone can suggest which of those communities can be skipped in favor of others.
Trailers: [email protected]
Games specific
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected] (EUIV, CK3, HOI, …)
[email protected] is technically “active” (the discussion post about whether it was abandoned was made 5 days ago…) and I’d really like it to flourish. If you want a place for text posts, OC analysis or just lengthy discussion as opposed to links to news, that’s the spot.
Also again promoting [email protected] for all things about Valve’s new game.
To flourish, it probably needs a mod, at least to setup a weekly discussion thread and give people opportunity to comment
That’s true. I suppose you’d need mod privileges to set up a sticky.
Indeed!
Thanks for sharing! There’s also a local instance for [email protected] that I’ve recently taken over moderating.
