r/Silksong joins lemmy!

Submitted ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨ssnoer@indie-ver.se⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

For the past couple of weeks, some of us moderators of the subreddit r/Silksong, have been working on an exciting project. We’ve created a lemmy instance for fans of indie games. We officially run and support this instance and the Silksong community on it. Please check it out at indie-ver.se/c/Silksong

I invite you, current users of the Fedi-verse, to join us at @indie-ver.se, subscribe and interact with the communities there, as they grow. So we can support both a more free internet, and indie game communities. See you soon!

to the moderators, hope this post does not break advertising rules. feel free to remove it, if it does

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Dremor@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Welcome on this side of the web. I hope you’ll find it cozy, and full of new encounters.

I’ll add your sub to the sidebar asap.

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- Batmorous@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  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
  
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  - rieux@indie-ver.se ⁨7⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
    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
    
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ccunning@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
!newcommunities@lemmy.world

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- ssnoer@indie-ver.se ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Thank you!
  
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  - urda@lebowski.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Welcome!
    
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a14o@feddit.org ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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.)

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- howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Might be a Boost bug, but the link doesn’t include anything past the hyphen.
  
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  - a14o@feddit.org ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Interesting, seems like a bug in the client.
    
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  - rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    It’s not a bug, it’s a missing 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.
    
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  - Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Must be an app bug, but a very unfortunate one as multiple apps seem to be affected. Link works fine for me in Summit, though.
    
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  - wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Similarly, Jerboa tries to make @indie-ver.se in the post body into a link to a user profile and also stops at the hyphen.
    
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- ssnoer@indie-ver.se ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Thank you! I didn’t know frontends supported this.
  
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Bazell@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Image

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FirmDistribution@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
This is a perfect partnership! Federated social medias and indie games. It’s the small guys getting together!

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beSyl@slrpnk.net ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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.

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- a14o@feddit.org ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I disagree, it’s a fitting name, and I don’t have to type it unless I want to link to it.
  
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  - tal@lemmy.today ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    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:
    
    RFC 952:
    
    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.
    
    RFC 1123:
    
    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.
    
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- TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  Domain names are important people.
  
  Damn, TIL
  
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- ssnoer@indie-ver.se ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  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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  - beSyl@slrpnk.net ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Ya, I know. But a few months/years, it is going to be even harder.
    
    indieTalk.TLD indieBoard.TLD indieForum.TLD indieIndie.TLD indieGaming.TLD indieLemmy.TLD Indielem.TLD indieVerse.TLD indieUniverse.TLD indieMingle.TLD indieNow.TLD indieSocial.TLD
    
    Just some ideas. If you decide to keep the domain name, I wish you the best. Regardless, welcome to Lemmy brother! The more the merrier.
    
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- datavoid@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Off topic but when I first joined Lemmy I was on booty.world, I still can’t believe that instance shut down!
  
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- Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  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 (assuming I’m right that it’s an instance themed around indie games).
  
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- ranslite@pie.dasneuland.de ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I think indie-ver.se isn’t hard to type or hard to spell. Proof me wrong.
  
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Agent_Karyo@piefed.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
A good existing indie game community:

!bside@fedia.io

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.
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- ssnoer@indie-ver.se ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  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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  - Agent_Karyo@piefed.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    For sure.
    
    Just pointing out genres with existing, somewhat active communities. There are many genres with a prominent presence of indie games and AA games (platformers, action games, MMOs) that are not really covered outside of general comms like this one.
    
    It might be best to focus on those areas.
    
    The local parlance for subs is comm/comms, from the word community.
    
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- Fmstrat@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  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” doesn’t just not fit, but it’s the antithesis of the purpose.
  
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  - Agent_Karyo@piefed.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    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 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 uses to quickly understand what the difference between two communities is.
    
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michael@piefed.chrisco.me ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Nice! GL and may you get good.

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CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Welcome aboard

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_ed@sopuli.xyz ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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.

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- ssnoer@indie-ver.se ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  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.
  
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squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Welcome to the Fediverse!

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Ugo@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Great! Now we need a Hades I/II community!

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- ssnoer@indie-ver.se ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  You are free to make one!
  
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  - Ugo@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Fair point 😅
    
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John_CalebBradberton@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
This is cool

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blazeknave@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
And your first link ever is to Reddit…

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- ssnoer@indie-ver.se ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Yea, that is to the post announcing we created this community. In hindsight, not the best decision.
  
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  - Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    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.
    
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who@feddit.org ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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.

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UncleOb@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Welcome, friends! As a recent convert myself I’m so happy to see more community joining the fediverse

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iamthetot@piefed.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Oof, on Boost those links aren’t parsed correctly.

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GrantUsEyes@lemmy.zip ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Subscribed! Welcome to the fediverse! :D

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AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Love this. One of the things I still go to Reddit for is the Slay the Spire sub

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JPAKx4@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
That’s awesome news!

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southernwolf@pawb.social ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Wunderbar! Welcome to Lemmy and the Fediverse! ^_^

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