Video game genre communities on Lemmy

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• Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  TIL, the threadiverse has a lot of .zip communities.

  I wonder if they’ll be larger after I unpack them?

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• ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I think a lot of these are going to be placeholder for a while until more generalized communities like this one see more growth. It’ll be a while before we even hit 100k subscribers here, and you need to have a subset of those people who are looking to talk about an even more specific interest in more depth.

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  • Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I think the bigger deal is Lemmy/Threadiverse getting 100K MAU and seeing steady growth beyond that. We are currently at around ~50-55K MAU.

    Subs are a deceptive metric, MAUs are far more important.

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    • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Oh, things are trending in the right direction, but we’re still a long ways away from needing smaller sub communities.

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  • Elevator7009@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You’re probably right, but most of these do exist already, so I figure not why not continue trying to use them (and to direct attention from this big community there)? Also probably doesn’t help a lot of instances have general games communities. We’re pretty splintered. Now that I think about it I should probably crosspost to some of the bigger ones.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  RPGs that don’t really fit in CRPG or JRPG

  I was thinking it is weird that the generically named “RPGs” community (and RPGMemes) seems focused entirely on tabletop stuff, but I just noticed it’s literally on an instance dedicated to tabletop games so that explains that…

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  • MelonYellow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah they’re all tabletop. If there was one for general RPG games, I would’ve been joined

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• Aielman15@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  sffa.community/c/sffgaming?dataType=Post&page=0

  Sffagaming is for sci-fi games, but I haven’t seen a post in there in a while.

  lemm.ee/c/the_talos_principle?dataType=Post&page=…

  lemmy.world/c/residentevil?dataType=Post&page=0

  Communities for Talos Principle and Resident Evil, but again, they aren’t active.

  lemm.ee/c/gamemusic?dataType=Post&page=0

  Community for sharing game music. Not very active, but I see posts in my feed every now and then.

  retrolemmy.com/c/TipOfMyJoystick?dataType=Post&pa…

  Fairly new community to help people looking for a specific name they forgot the name of.

  Sorry for not sharing the generic link, I’m on mobile and that’s the link my app generates when I click on “share”.

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  • Elevator7009@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    • !sffgaming@sffa.community
    • !the_talos_principle@lemm.ee
    • !residentevil@lemmy.world
    • !gamemusic@lemm.ee
    • !tipofmyjoystick@retrolemmy.com

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    • tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Another adjacent community that is seeing no real activity: !arcadesticks@lemmy.world

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  • tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    !gamemusic@lemm.ee

    Community for sharing game music.

    On that note, !gameart@sopuli.xyz for video game artwork.

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    • Elevator7009@lemmy.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      • !baldurs_gate_3@lemmy.world has some activity thanks to @PugJesus@lemmy.world
      • !stardewvalley@lemm.ee has activity thanks to @sag@ani.social
      • !factorio@lemmy.world has some posts
      • !infinitynikki@discuss.tchncs.de has three people including myself There are probably more for some really big games, but these are the ones I know of.

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    • Aielman15@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I agree. In the days immediately following the APIcalypse, people attempted to move all their favourite niche communities to Lemmy, but the site’s active userbase isn’t there yet for that kind of content - much to my displeasure: I was only active in two/three niche communities back when I was a Reddit user, but they are pretty much nonexistent here, so I’m forced to include more generic communities in my Lemmy feed to keep it from drying up.

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    • tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      EDIT: Oh, and @PugJesus@lemmy.world has kept a flow of material to !fallout@lemmy.world.

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  • tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    sffa.community/c/sffgaming?dataType=Post&page=0

    I can’t DNS-resolve sffa.community, either on IPv4 or IPv6. Google’s DNS root can’t see it either:

    $ host -t a sffa.community 8.8.8.8
    Using domain server:
    Name: 8.8.8.8
    Address: 8.8.8.8#53
    Aliases: 
    
    Host sffa.community not found: 2(SERVFAIL)
    
    $ host -t aaaa sffa.community 8.8.8.8
    Using domain server:
    Name: 8.8.8.8
    Address: 8.8.8.8#53
    Aliases: 
    
    Host sffa.community not found: 2(SERVFAIL)
    
    $
    

    It clearly existed at one point, because lemmy.world has local copies of some stuff from a year back:

    lemmy.world/c/sffgaming@sffa.community?dataType=P…

    But I think that the instance is gone now.

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    • Aielman15@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Oh, that’s sad. No point in staying subscribed, then.

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