Something I miss from Reddit was that just about all my favorite games had their own subreddits. Like I happen to be a huge fan of Snowrunner but I don’t see any communities specifically about Snowrunner on Lemmy. But Elden Ring has a community on 2 instances with less than 100 subs total. I think the one hosted on Lemmy.world has 8 subs and 1 post. Elden Ring was game of the year in 2022!
I guess I just don’t see enough engagement on these dedicated communities to see the value in making my own Snowrunner community or any other game in general really.
Thoughts?
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As Lemmy continues to grow, individual game subs will begin to grow. Right now there are not enough users to sustain these individual communities.
Absolutely, but it’s tricky with a such a small user base. Most of the indie game subreddits didn’t have a lot of activity even there. The bigger ones like valheim didn’t even participate in the protest so nobody showed up here to make it, unlike gw2 and warframe that are somewhat active since they promoted this site on their subreddits.
So while I wish we had them, it might be too early, even the consolidated gaming magazines / communities don’t have that much activity going on.
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You make a good point. The other thing is that the games’ publishers make those subs on Reddit. They’re for marketing more than anything else. Like the OP I miss the SnowRunner sub and I’ve only deleted my Reddit account today. That sub, although run by the publisher, is pretty chill. They let people criticize the game openly and it’s fun to see people’s screenshots and videos. They say they don’t like “low effort content” blah blah blah but they allow memes. I posted a reply to this same post on Lemmy. My response there is like yours: not enough users.
I think it depends on the game and community migration from reddit.
Deep Rock Galactic and Hunt: Showdown both seem to be picking up steam on their own communities in the fediverse.
IMO only if you plan to be active there and post content to it.
I created https://lemmy.world/c/phasmophobia but doesn’t look like many people are interested
Eventually we’ll get there, the only Mass Effect community is here and it’s basically just the moderator and I making content lol
Keep in mind that we are only seeing rexxitors that left during the protest at the moment. Once the changeover happens and third party apps go down we will see a bunch of additional traffic and users. Might as well get the community started for when that happens! Post memes and whatnot to the gaming communities and put your community in the body text so people can find it too. Gaming is huge on Lemmy just like reddit, and we will continue growing as the problems on reddit become acute in the following days.
Can’t engage with a place that doesn’t exist.
Absolutely. Some exist now, but if you feel passionate about a game you can create a community for it. Someone had to start one on Reddit back in the day, so you can create one here too.
https://kbin.social/m/anothereden is the only game I want to talk about really, the vast majority of the time, but on the other hand, there are an extremely small number of posts there (and most are from me, testing it out and trying to promote it more heavily, so also cross-posting back to the corresponding Reddit sub).
So yeah, go for it if you want, but make sure to “manage expectations”, b/c the more niche it is, the fewer posts per day/week/month/year are going to appear in it.
Reddit never got this fact, but it truly is up to the users what they want to do.
Yes agreed, but I like to think the engagement is more tailored to the content, more inside jokes, more interesting discussion, less crap and shitposting and overall just quality over quantity
I know I’ve been enjoying !diablo@lemmy.world even if it’s not crowded with content yet.
Yes, all of them. Like, every last one. Just need the userbase to populate them though. Start up a Starsector sub and you’ll probably get like 40 people at this point. A Suzerain sub would have like 2.
Yes, absolutely. I think smaller niche communities should be encouraged whenever possible.
I think so, yes. Made @DeusEx for this reason.
Anyone know if there is a consistent way to link to magazines/communities? !DeusEx@kbin.social seems to be something I see, but doesn’t seem to work on kbin.
Edit: Neither does @DeusEx, strange. How about just DeusEx@kbin.social?
I think on kbin it would be @DeuxRex
I think I recall seeing plans to add an @ user suggestion/selection feature in comments. I’d assume a next step after that would be for magazines, at least the local server ones. Not sure if the federated ones since that list could potentially be very long.
I wouldn’t bother until the community is bigger. Otherwise you’re splitting and diluting it.
What about creating the groundwork for the community to come to? A migrating redditor will feel much more at home if all his/her favorite communities are already there looking pretty and new yeah?
I would love to see one for Valheim. I’m not sure if it doesn’t exist or if I’m just not searching right.
Edit: I can see the magazine now when I search. Looks like it just wasn’t connecting to lemmy earlier this week.
