As Lemmy continues to grow, individual game subs will begin to grow. Right now there are not enough users to sustain these individual communities.
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I think it depends on the game and community migration from reddit.
Deep Rock Galactic and Hunt: Showdown both seem to be picking up steam on their own communities in the fediverse.
Can't engage with a place that doesn't exist.
IMO only if you plan to be active there and post content to it.
I'm conflicted. While I wish I could go to a targeted community for games I am playing, my experience with Reddit is that these end up being filled with shitposts and memes.
Yes. Bring on the shitposts. It's what I'm here for.
bleh shitposts belong in meme subs
I think it's a bit of an if you build it they will come situation. The userbase is growing exponentially and seeding communities is the best way to continue that organic growth. I don't think the early adopter user is going to bounce when they see it's a sub with limited users and posts, they'll see a fresh start.
Yes, please. The Animal Crossing sub was delightful and wholesome and the WoW sub had great guides. There are different genres that have different vibes and variety is the spice of life.
Eventually we'll get there, the only Mass Effect community is here and it's basically just the moderator and I making content lol
Keep in mind that we are only seeing rexxitors that left during the protest at the moment. Once the changeover happens and third party apps go down we will see a bunch of additional traffic and users. Might as well get the community started for when that happens! Post memes and whatnot to the gaming communities and put your community in the body text so people can find it too. Gaming is huge on Lemmy just like reddit, and we will continue growing as the problems on reddit become acute in the following days.
I think so, yes. Made @DeusEx for this reason.
Anyone know if there is a consistent way to link to magazines/communities? [email protected] seems to be something I see, but doesn't seem to work on kbin.
Edit: Neither does @DeusEx, strange. How about just [email protected]?
I think I recall seeing plans to add an @ user suggestion/selection feature in comments. I’d assume a next step after that would be for magazines, at least the local server ones. Not sure if the federated ones since that list could potentially be very long.
I would love to see one for Valheim. I’m not sure if it doesn’t exist or if I’m just not searching right.
Absolutely, but it's tricky with a such a small user base. Most of the indie game subreddits didn't have a lot of activity even there. The bigger ones like valheim didn't even participate in the protest so nobody showed up here to make it, unlike gw2 and warframe that are somewhat active since they promoted this site on their subreddits.
So while I wish we had them, it might be too early, even the consolidated gaming magazines / communities don't have that much activity going on.
True
You make a good point. The other thing is that the games' publishers make those subs on Reddit. They're for marketing more than anything else. Like the OP I miss the SnowRunner sub and I've only deleted my Reddit account today. That sub, although run by the publisher, is pretty chill. They let people criticize the game openly and it's fun to see people's screenshots and videos. They say they don't like "low effort content" blah blah blah but they allow memes. I posted a reply to this same post on Lemmy. My response there is like yours: not enough users.
https://kbin.social/m/anothereden is the only game I want to talk about really, the vast majority of the time, but on the other hand, there are an extremely small number of posts there (and most are from me, testing it out and trying to promote it more heavily, so also cross-posting back to the corresponding Reddit sub).
So yeah, go for it if you want, but make sure to "manage expectations", b/c the more niche it is, the fewer posts per day/week/month/year are going to appear in it.
Reddit never got this fact, but it truly is up to the users what they want to do.
Yes agreed, but I like to think the engagement is more tailored to the content, more inside jokes, more interesting discussion, less crap and shitposting and overall just quality over quantity
Exactly. I suppose within a larger sub each post could be about a single game, or something shared across multiple games, so you could re-create that feeling within a larger community. But unless you play or at least want to know about a ton of games then, the larger the magazine the more irrelevant posts there would be (maybe set up a filter?).
Or, just enjoy discussions at a slower pace - we don't need to fill the void every moment of every day. Okay uh...we don't need to try to fill the void every moment of every day with that particular magazine:-).
Absolutely. Some exist now, but if you feel passionate about a game you can create a community for it. Someone had to start one on Reddit back in the day, so you can create one here too.
I'd personally start with content on more-general communities and then bud off as the userbase grows. Like, start with a "gaming" community, then split off to "roguelikes" when the traffic there gets too high, then create "CavesOfQud" when that gets too high, etc.
So Caves of Qud it is.
I wouldn't bother until the community is bigger. Otherwise you're splitting and diluting it.
What about creating the groundwork for the community to come to? A migrating redditor will feel much more at home if all his/her favorite communities are already there looking pretty and new yeah?
@cashews_win @bloodtide This one is interesting, what do you mean splitting? I think first thing people that go on reddit will search for something right? Example: you search for anime memes right? Some may know but we have several subreddits dedicated for memes, so you would join the biggest right or you will scour to see if content is engaging enough(here boobs on text memes). So reddit already splits community, nothing new on
lemmy/kbin/etc. Having nothing showup on #Snowrunner is worse IMHO
Do you think a single instance dedicated to hosting all the myriad game communities would be a good idea / take off? It's something I was thinking about when I was first learning about how all this works.
someone get in there and plant this flag before fextralife does lol
Morrowind and Final Fantasy (franchise) were two of my favorite game subs. As for their communities, one is pretty low traffic and the other doesn't even exist.
I loved Morrowind
Eventually, but how do you handle too much fragmentation? Do you make one Zelda community and discuss every game there? Or do you make a specific community for each game?
I say a sub for each game, that way it’s easier to find the information you’re looking for, but that’s just me
¿Por que no los dos?