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I'll add your sub to the sidebar asap.
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facts also OP please get other indie game studio people to bring their communities in too. Growing Indie Game studios presence would help grow this place in near and long term for Lemmy/Piefed
It’s quite hard to do that as a lot of communities aren’t willing to put in the time of setting up a community on the fediverse. We tried to get a lot of indie game subreddits on board but so far it’s just silksong and balatro. Unless a bigger group of people on reddit ask for it then not much can happen
Welcome!
Ba Ri Du Na Si Ma Net!...
Extending a warm welcome to you!
We need folks like you in here, and I believe you'll find great support. Good luck!
Also, don't forget to populate the community with a post or two to start things rolling!
Pika
I think the community already has had a great start. Thank you for your support!
Oh, I see now! Didn't load properly for me the first time, shown an empty community. Good job! :)
It just needed some time to sync to your instance xD
Awesome, that's exciting news!
(A good way to link to communities is like this: !Silksong@indie-ver.se - that way I can click and subscribe while staying logged in.)
Might be a Boost bug, but the link doesn't include anything past the hyphen.
Interesting, seems like a bug in the client.
I imagine so. I don't use Boost, but I posted about the behavior to the Boost community, so hopefully they'll get it straightened out.
It's not a bug, it's an unimplemented feature. The !community@instance syntax is not part of any Markdown flavour, so every client has to implement it independently, and it's possible that it collides with some other kind of token (e.g. with the @user tag).
I didn't know that this was de facto a client side feature (Lemmy WebUI, Piefed WebUI and my mobile client, Voyager, all support it).
That said, I strongly prefer Piefed style link re-direction; albeit it's a client side feature just like the relative markdown syntax.
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Thank you! I didn't know frontends supported this.
This is a perfect partnership! Federated social medias and indie games. It's the small guys getting together!
Great! Now we need a Hades I/II community!
You are free to make one!
Fair point 😅
Nice! GL and may you get good.
Welcome!
A good existing indie game community:
Some genre/theme specific communities that focus mostly on indie games:
- !tycoon@lemmy.world
- !citybuilders@sh.itjust.works
- !strategy_games@piefed.world
- !horror_games@piefed.world
- !space_games@piefed.world
Considering how small the Threadiverse is, it's best to not duplicate comms.
Feel free to reach out in DMs if anything.
At first I nodded my head to this since it adds user volume in one place, but this is the Fediverse, where no one set of mods or communities gets to "own" anything.
People can subscribe to both, so to me, the "best to not duplicate" is the antithesis of the Fediverse's purpose.
I don't think having functional, active, somewhat niche communities is the antithesis of the Fediverse's purpose.
If we had 1M MAU, that would be different.
It's a common complaint for many people looking to switch off reddit that niche communities are lacking and that having multiple low engagement communities without any clear differentiation is confusing.
Multiple comms is a good thing, but you also need to make it easy for users to quickly understand what the difference between two communities is.
While I don't disagree with the sentiment, encouraging a large community driver like Silksong to create a community IS the way to grow niche communities, not the reverse.
Welcome, friends! As a recent convert myself I’m so happy to see more community joining the fediverse
I get what you mean, the goal was actually to do the opposite. Try to get all indie game related subs together, but in this regard everything is a trade of.
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Welcome aboard
I mean... You guys should really start caring about domain names.. That domain name is both hard to type and hard to spell.. Domain names are important people.
Since it is still in its infancy, I would suggest buying a proper name. Might seem harsh, but ya.
I disagree, it's a fitting name, and I don't have to type it unless I want to link to it.
Plus, I mean, unless you're using a Threadiverse host as your home instance, how often are you typing its name?
Having a hyphen is RFC-conformant:
1. A "name" (Net, Host, Gateway, or Domain name) is a text string up
to 24 characters drawn from the alphabet (A-Z), digits (0-9), minus
sign (-), and period (.). Note that periods are only allowed when
they serve to delimit components of "domain style names". (See
RFC-921, "Domain Name System Implementation Schedule", for
background). No blank or space characters are permitted as part of a
name. No distinction is made between upper and lower case. The first
character must be an alpha character. The last character must not be
a minus sign or period. A host which serves as a GATEWAY should have
"-GATEWAY" or "-GW" as part of its name. Hosts which do not serve as
Internet gateways should not use "-GATEWAY" and "-GW" as part of
their names. A host which is a TAC should have "-TAC" as the last
part of its host name, if it is a DoD host. Single character names
or nicknames are not allowed.
The syntax of a legal Internet host name was specified in RFC-952
[DNS:4]. One aspect of host name syntax is hereby changed: the
restriction on the first character is relaxed to allow either a
letter or a digit. Host software MUST support this more liberal
syntax.
Host software MUST handle host names of up to 63 characters and
SHOULD handle host names of up to 255 characters.Domain names are important people.
Damn, TIL
Changing the domain of a lemmy instance is quite hard. (Already did it once during testing). And I don't think indie-ver.se is that hard to spell. Anyways, I am not asking the 100+ users who subscribed to change it, but I do see your point.
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Off topic but when I first joined Lemmy I was on booty.world, I still can't believe that instance shut down!
I mean, I agree with you in principle - domain names can matter. I remember people were similarly concerned about lemmy.zip back when it launched since .zip links on the internet can be... not so great.
In this case though I don't see it, I think indie-ver.se is a great name and super fitting.
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This is what I love to see niche instances that specialise in an area rather than trying to be another generalist / reddit. At this stage you’ll prob need to fight discoverability issues. Cheering for ya.
Posting on r/Silksong helps a lot. We've been in contact with many moderators all across Reddit, trying to get them to join us, but that is still developing.
Welcome to the Fediverse!
This is cool
Oof, on Boost those links aren't parsed correctly.
Welcome, friends! As a recent convert myself I'm so happy to see more community joining the fediverse
And your first link ever is to Reddit...
Yea, that is to the post announcing we created this community. In hindsight, not the best decision.
It's good to know when Reddit moderators see the light and help transition their communities over before Reddit interferes. !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com is another example of that.
I love the idea.
I hope you'll reconsider the domain name, though. Dashes make them harder to type, harder to remember (was there a dash? an underscore? nothing?), harder to read aloud to someone else, and (in some user interfaces) impossible to select with a double click. A domain name containing a dash isn't unusable, of course, but is a perpetual source of friction and mild annoyance that could have been avoided.
Subscribed! Welcome to the fediverse! :D
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