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New Communities

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A place to post new communities all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.

Rules

The rules for behavior are a straight carry over of Mastodon.World's rules. You can click the link but we've reposted them here in brief, as a guideline. We will continue to use the Mastodon.World rules as the master list. Over all, be nice to each other and remember this isn't a community built around debate. For the rules about formatting your posts, scroll down to number 2.

1. Follow the rules of Mastodon.world, which can be found here.

A. Provide an inclusive and supportive environment. This means if it isn't rulebreaking and we can't be supportive to them then we probably shouldn't engage.

B. No illegal content.

C. Use content warnings where appropriate. This means mark your submissions NSFW if need be.

D. No uncivil behavior. This includes, but is not limited to: Name Calling; Bullying; Trolling; Disruptive Commenting; or Personal Criticisms.

E. No Harrassment. As an example in relation to Transgender people this includes, deadnaming, misgendering, and promotion of conversion therapy. Similarly Misogyny, Misandry, and Racism are also banned here.

2. Include a community title and description in your post title. - A following example of this would be New Communities - A place to post new communities all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.

3. Follow the formatting. - The formatting as included below is important for people getting universal links across Lemmy as easily as possible.

Formatting

Please include this following format in your post:

[link text](/c/community@instance.com)

This provides a link that should work across instances, but in some cases it won't

You should also include either:

!community@instance.com

or instance.com/c/community

FAQ:

Q: Why do I get a 404?

A: At least one user in an instance needs to search for a community before it gets fetched. Searching for the community will bring it into the instance and it will fetch a few of the most recent posts without comments. If a user is subscribed to a community, then all of the future posts and interactions are now in-sync.

Q: When I try to create a post, the circle just spins forever. Why is that?

A: This is a current known issue with large communities. Sometimes it does get posted, but just continues spinning, but sometimes it doesn't get posted and continues spinning. If it doesn't actually get posted, the best thing to do is try later. However, only some people seem to be having this problem at the moment.

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Video Games - weekly active communities thread (self.newcommunities)
submitted 2 months ago by Blaze to c/newcommunities@lemmy.world
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[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Blaze 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 months ago

Simracing

[–] Blaze 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thanks @helloharu@lemmy.world

[–] helloharu@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Thanks for sharing! There’s also a local instance for !finalfantasyxiv@lemmy.world that I’ve recently taken over moderating.

[–] Blaze 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

General communities:

[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You can probably add !games@lemmy.world (disclosure, I'm a moderator)

[–] Blaze 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Hello!

Question for you: have you ever considered moving your community to another instance, like !games@sh.itjust.works, 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

[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Blaze 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

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 !mapporn@lemmy.world vs !map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz

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.

[–] AchtungDrempels@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Blaze 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm talking about active communities on other instances who could be even more active if LW non active communities would redirect to them

[–] AchtungDrempels@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I know. But not everybody seems to share your enthusiasm for locking the communities on world.

Looking at your examples:

The movie ones: To me the world one looks like the way healthier community, a lot more different users posting stuff, on lemm.ee it's mostly some power users creating all the content, actually really only moderators of that community. I find you talking about how it is the more active community a bit dishonest tbh. Same i found with the dataisbeautiful one. I have a feeling you care more about computers (fedi infra) than the topics.

The gaming one somebody else told you their opinion on it, and why it is a good community.

The android ones.. i don't really have an opinion on it. IIRC at first they were all on the world (or.ml?) one and then created the lemdro.id instance. What about the .ml one by the way? Why is it only ever a problem when world has a community that exists elsewhere?

Generally i don't think having multiple active c's is all that problematic, at least they are active.

[–] simple@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

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.

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. games@lemmy.world 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.

[–] Blaze 3 points 2 months ago

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 !newcommunities@lemmy.world is featured at the top of LW's home page.

On the other hand, sometimes it's a bit frustrating. !movies@lemm.ee 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, !moviesandtv@lemm.ee ), and Lemm.ee is a well established instance with a neutral domain name.

I moved !casualconversation@lemmy.world to !casualconversation@lemm.ee , 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.

[–] Blaze 2 points 2 months ago

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!

[–] Blaze 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Games specific

[–] andrew_s@piefed.social 5 points 2 months ago

Trailers: !gametrailers@lemmy.wtf

[–] tamlyn@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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:

[–] Blaze 5 points 2 months ago

!jrpg@lemmy.zip

Thanks, I was looking for this one!

[–] Blaze 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

MMO

[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

No FFXIV community?

[–] helloharu@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We have !finalfantasyxiv@lemmy.world if you’re wanting a local instance.

[–] Blaze 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's the one I wanted to mention above, missed the xiv in the name

[–] helloharu@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

No worries. Easy mistake to make.

[–] Blaze 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

!finalfantasy@lemmy.world

Already posted in another comment, but I edited this one as well

[–] neme@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There's also !ffxiv@possumpat.io

[–] Blaze 3 points 2 months ago

Didn't know about this one, that's nice, and they have almost as many followers as the LW one! Edited my comment

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

!letstalkaboutgames@feddit.uk 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 !deadlock@sopuli.xyz for all things about Valve's new game.

[–] Blaze 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

To flourish, it probably needs a mod, at least to setup a weekly discussion thread and give people opportunity to comment

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's true. I suppose you'd need mod privileges to set up a sticky.

[–] Blaze 2 points 2 months ago

Indeed!

[–] Elevator7009sAlt@ani.social 2 points 2 months ago

!otomegames@ani.social !touhou@lemmy.world !visualnovels@lemmy.comfysnug.space (lemmy.comfysnug.space) !visualnovels@ani.social

[–] Blaze 2 points 2 months ago

Souls