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:

  1. Real conversations about games
  2. Minimal memes
  3. 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:

https://piefed.social/c/videogames

  • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
    9·
    4 days ago

    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?

    • atomicpoet@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      9·
      4 days ago

      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.

      • Elevator7009@lemmy.zipEnglish
        4·
        4 days ago

        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.

        • Blaze (he/him)@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          Move should be better handled between Piefed instances, the case you mentioned was from a Lemmy instance to a Piefed instance

          • flamingos-cant (hopepunk arc)@feddit.ukEnglish
            1·
            3 days ago

            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.

              • Skavau@piefed.socialEnglish
                4·
                3 days ago

                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.

                • Rimu@piefed.socialEnglish
                  2·
                  3 days ago

                  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.