A gaming community free from the hype and oversaturation of current releases, catering to gamers who wait at least 12 months after release to play a game. Whether it's price, waiting for bugs/issues to be patched, DLC to be released, don't meet the system requirements, or just haven't had the time to keep up with the latest releases.
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I don't think it's a "dupe". The same community can have different rules or expectations or culture in different places, and eventually, people will settle down where they feel comfortable. For some, that's the most populated place, for others, the one that aligns best with their own interests and vibe.
Personally, I'd rather not get invested in the .ml place, considering who's running the instance.
Exactly, and when/if we get a way to group them together "multireddit style", then it's going to be even less of an issue hopefully.
I imagine there will be many duplicates of several subs over the next while. That means Highlander rules will eventually go into effect!
Fair, and I'm completely expecting that, which is why I've subbed to several related communities with the expectation that I'll be culling that list.
That said, sometimes communities can be hard to find, and the other already seemed to have good engagement, so it seemed like a good place to point people toward.
I just wish there was a better way to vet the admins of each community and the owners of each instance. I'm happy to create my own instance if needed, but I'd rather build a community than build an instance.
No thanks lemmy.ml has it's own weird instance rules that I want nothing to do with.
I don't think trying to centralize a community that relies on a decentralized platform is a very great idea. I get what you're going for but I think the little pocket communities add a layer of safety from bad actors.
Oh, I'm all for having more communities, I just posted this at a time when this community had a handful of people in it, and the other was also fairly small (<100 IIRC). I didn't want people to assume that there should be a copy of each community on each instance, which kind of defeats the point of federation.
I think it's a good idea to have a few alternatives so if there are issues (e.g. defederation, bad mods, instance goes down), people have an established community to go to. But the preference should be for fewer, larger communities than tons of really small communities. Even in Reddit, we had several gaming communities (/r/games, /r/gaming, /r/patientgamers, etc), and that was a great thing! But if there's 100, that's a bit much.
Agreed.