I see a lot of posts on fediverse trashing reddit, Twitter, spez, musk and so on, and rightfully so. But like it or not, the mass majority of users on the internet still use these sites, and some of us still want to interact with the friends and communities we are a part of on those sites. And there’s nothing wrong with that either.
Personally, I want fediverse to grow, and I post on kbin and mastodon constantly, and try to grow the communities on them. But I still pop over to reddit for r/splatoon, r/casualconveration, and my hometown sub, because either the communities haven’t grown enough here yet for constant fresh content, or the content is different enough between both to justify me checking in.
I get many are here as a protest against reddit, Twitter, or where ever else you came from, and that’s valid. But there are many of us who are simply casual users who want to include fediverse into their drives of other social media, and that’s totally fine too.
I have crawled back to Reddit, but only out of a need to keep up with my wrestling news, and insert random game i’m playing, and I want to be part of the ongoing whatevers, 7daystodie for example.
I’m only using it on PC and with RES, so hey no adverts. Not installing it on my phone tho, screw that blasted app.
There’s just not enough scatterd and active game communities here yet, hell we don’t really have an R/Gaming equivalent which is staggering to me considering the base-of-nerds we have here.
Excuse the shameless self-promotion, and it’s not quite /r/gaming where it’s nothing but memes, nostalgia-bait and cosplay, but myself and the rest of the /r/truegaming mod team are here: @truegaming / !truegaming
If you weren’t familiar with the subreddit: it’s a discussion-focused community for having more high-level, in-depth conversations about games and their design. Think essays and random deep-dives rather than memes, questions, gameplay footage.
I agree that the lack of more specific, focused communities - like game-specific ones - here is the biggest drawback compared to Reddit right now. With time, I’m sure that’ll change, and right now, jumpstarting communities you want to see here is a good idea if you have the ability to.
Oooh awesome, thanks mate
Loved your community when I was on Reddit. I remembered when it used to be absurd having to wait an entire month just to even post there. r-gaming is some of the most toxic gaming-based subreddits on there. The mods are ban-happy on that subreddit if you’re not regurgitating content in the same vein as the rest do. What I got tired of on there particularly, was the circlejerking outrage porn that happened at any instance whether it’s a game company’s decision or whatever. It was just down to the fact that some fanboy is simply unhappy so they’ve gotta go on a tirade to rile everyone up and go review bomb something.
There are gaming communities/magazines over here, though. They’re just not as active as Reddit because there aren’t as many people over here. I think it’s precisely because there are three gaming communities/magazines split over kbin, lemmy, and beehaw that no one has quite settled on which one is the main one. Unless you join all three, you miss stuff.
Yea I think i’m on all three too, early days I guess :)
Very. Here’s to hoping that one of them starts standing out as the main one. Consolidation will help a lot, I think.
Yeah my mobile has Memmy and Surfboard for Tildes; between the two I get my doom scroll fix. I have almost never used reddit without RES on the desktop but Ill still browse probably once a day between my feeds and /all for a great deal less than I used to.
Ahh I keep forgetting about Tildes, I hate the PC experience but I have surfboard installed, which is much better. It’s a decent place, I just haven’t totally clicked with it yet.
It would also help if I could post or reply there too lol. I’ll just keep watch on t/Tildes for their next account give aways for now, lol
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