After a week of building and curating [email protected], the community already has 58 subscribers—and it’s only getting started.
I’ve been thinking hard about the kind of place I want this to be. The vision comes down to three things:
Real conversations about games
Minimal memes
Zero outrage culture
I want this community to be about joy—a space for people who actually play video games to share what excites them. Not a dumping ground for culture wars. Not another echo chamber for Gamergate-era nonsense.
Games are for everyone. And everyone should feel comfortable digging deep here. Talk about an obscure Japanese console. Explore weird European PCs. Or break down the craft behind how a game actually got made. That’s the stuff I want to see flourish.
Here’s to the next 100 posts—and beyond. Come join in:
What niche does this community fill that the other four to six general purpose gaming communities fail to? Stricter moderation? Only OC posts? No news article posts? What differentiates this from [email protected] for example?
Great question. For one thing, it’s built to be a general Piefed video game community. There’s another one on piefed.social but it’s way more meme heavy and into “gamer culture” instead of just video games.
As for why Piefed and not Lemmy, it’s because Piefed communities are portable. That is, if the admin proves to be awful or a server threatens to shut down, you can just move the community elsewhere.
Also, audience. I crosspost from @[email protected], an account that has 14.5K followers. So lots of comments come from Mastodon and Akkoma.
Finally, content. Less outrage culture. More games. Many which you’re likely to have never played before.
As for why Piefed and not Lemmy, it’s because Piefed communities are portable. That is, if the admin proves to be awful or a server threatens to shut down, you can just move the community elsewhere.
Unless I’m missing something in the code I linked, they’re not. All that action does is merge one community into another on the local database, nothing federates.
IIRC there were discussions back when lemm.ee shutdown about allowing the community migration between Piefed instances to automatically subscribe the members of the previous community to the new one, but I don’t know how that ended
Well it isn’t possible, and probably not ever possible to automatically redirect lemmy-based subscribers to a new community on piefed via migration. I also think lemmy users would not like that even if it was.
But Rimu did suggest he wanted it to automatically do it for piefed based users, and have it so all posts are automatically migrated on all piefed instances too.
With that limitation and with most of the community moves in the foreseeable future being from Lemmy to PieFed, not PieFed to PieFed, it’s not really a high priority.
Just subbed mostly because of the promise to avoid outrage culture. Some Lemmy communities for games I have seen are pretty good at slapping down any bigoted stuff (props to them!) but do engage in outrage that happens to be progressive-flavored. On one hand I get it, the post is bad news that probably impacts some gamers, on another, I’d like to enjoy my hobby instead of seeing the 388338th “the gaming industry is having serious troubles, billionaires are bad, short-term-profit-seeking shareholders ruin everything” comment. I agree with that position but I do not want to think about it all the time when I come on Lemmy for fun, not political anger.
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]
A place to post new communities all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.
Rules
The rules for behavior are a straight carry over of Mastodon.World’s rules. You can click the link but we’ve reposted them here in brief, as a guideline. We will continue to use the Mastodon.World rules as the master list. Over all, be nice to each other and remember this isn’t a community built around debate. For the rules about formatting your posts, scroll down to number 2.
1. Follow the rules of Mastodon.world, which can be found here.
A. Provide an inclusive and supportive environment. This means if it isn’t rulebreaking and we can’t be supportive to them then we probably shouldn’t engage.
B. No illegal content.
C. Use content warnings where appropriate. This means mark your submissions NSFW if need be.
D. No uncivil behavior. This includes, but is not limited to: Name Calling; Bullying; Trolling; Disruptive Commenting; or Personal Criticisms.
E. No Harrassment. As an example in relation to Transgender people this includes, deadnaming, misgendering, and promotion of conversion therapy. Similarly Misogyny, Misandry, and Racism are also banned here.
2. Include a community or instance title and description in your post title. - A following example of this would be New Communities - A place to post new communities or instances all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.
3. Follow the formatting. - The formatting as included below is important for people getting universal links across Lemmy as easily as possible.
Formatting
Please include this following format in your post:
A: At least one user in an instance needs to search for a community before it gets fetched. Searching for the community will bring it into the instance and it will fetch a few of the most recent posts without comments. If a user is subscribed to a community, then all of the future posts and interactions are now in-sync.
Q: When I try to create a post, the circle just spins forever. Why is that?
A: This is a current known issue with large communities. Sometimes it does get posted, but just continues spinning, but sometimes it doesn’t get posted and continues spinning. If it doesn’t actually get posted, the best thing to do is try later. However, only some people seem to be having this problem at the moment.
What niche does this community fill that the other four to six general purpose gaming communities fail to? Stricter moderation? Only OC posts? No news article posts? What differentiates this from [email protected] for example?
Great question. For one thing, it’s built to be a general Piefed video game community. There’s another one on piefed.social but it’s way more meme heavy and into “gamer culture” instead of just video games.
As for why Piefed and not Lemmy, it’s because Piefed communities are portable. That is, if the admin proves to be awful or a server threatens to shut down, you can just move the community elsewhere.
Also, audience. I crosspost from @[email protected], an account that has 14.5K followers. So lots of comments come from Mastodon and Akkoma.
Finally, content. Less outrage culture. More games. Many which you’re likely to have never played before.
Are they? The only thing I’ve heard about this is Piefed’s community move admin action, which is just a simple db rewrite only on the local instance.
Move should be better handled between Piefed instances, the case you mentioned was from a Lemmy instance to a Piefed instance
Unless I’m missing something in the code I linked, they’re not. All that action does is merge one community into another on the local database, nothing federates.
IIRC there were discussions back when lemm.ee shutdown about allowing the community migration between Piefed instances to automatically subscribe the members of the previous community to the new one, but I don’t know how that ended
@[email protected] @[email protected] ?
Well it isn’t possible, and probably not ever possible to automatically redirect lemmy-based subscribers to a new community on piefed via migration. I also think lemmy users would not like that even if it was.
But Rimu did suggest he wanted it to automatically do it for piefed based users, and have it so all posts are automatically migrated on all piefed instances too.
Yep.
With that limitation and with most of the community moves in the foreseeable future being from Lemmy to PieFed, not PieFed to PieFed, it’s not really a high priority.
Just subbed mostly because of the promise to avoid outrage culture. Some Lemmy communities for games I have seen are pretty good at slapping down any bigoted stuff (props to them!) but do engage in outrage that happens to be progressive-flavored. On one hand I get it, the post is bad news that probably impacts some gamers, on another, I’d like to enjoy my hobby instead of seeing the 388338th “the gaming industry is having serious troubles, billionaires are bad, short-term-profit-seeking shareholders ruin everything” comment. I agree with that position but I do not want to think about it all the time when I come on Lemmy for fun, not political anger.
Not sure why but the community is completely empty to me? Trying to view it from slrpnk.net.
Something must have changed now, I can see 4 posts at https://slrpnk.net/c/[email protected]
Yupp can see them too now ☺️
Might be a federation issue. Try viewing the URL at the bottom of the post.
Congrats! 🎉