Ive got a couple more communities from the programming.dev instance
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2023
20 points (100.0% liked)
GameDev
2680 readers
1 users here now
A community about game development.
Rules:
- Adhere to the general lemmy.blahaj.zone rules (#1 being no homophobia, transphobia, racism or other exclusionary content)
- Self-promotion is fine as long as it's not spammy - share your progress, insights, techniques and mishaps! If you recently posted, update the previous post instead of filling the frontpage with your project
- Hide NSFW/NSFL content behind a clear warning, for example: [NSFW Nudity]
More rules might follow if they become necessary; general rule is don't be a pain in the butt. Have fun! ♥
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Think there are probably enough general gamedev communities to be getting on with already tbh
Yeah I think that brings it up to 5 now although ive been trying to avoid using lemmy.ml where possible, and both pineapplemachine and pawb are less active
Figured might as well make one in programming.dev to match with the separate engines and then we can see if its active or not. Worst case it can be used as a space to direct people to one of the other ones
Great thread thank you! Think I've found most of these already but I'll have to cross reference with my sub list to be sure.
Love how we have this place, gamedev ON a furry instance, and then there's also furry_gamedev but on a totally different instance 😄
I figured with how splintered a federated service can become, it might be essential to start a list like this. Feel free to suggest any others you find relevant!
Honestly this seems like the biggest downside of federation. It makes sense for like furry_gamedev to have its own community, but having multiple general purpose gamedev communities seems like unnecessarily splintering. I wonder if Lemmy will either add a way to combine them on the user end, or for the community side to be able to link themselves together.
The more I think about it, the more I like the idea of communities acting as entry points. Each one could act as a "node" which helps for redundancy in case one goes down, and if it only works one way then a community could remain separate if they really wanted to, but the larger community could still have posts from B showing up.
There's all kinds of conversations going on about this atm but honestly I think a lot of it will just sort itself out naturally.
Like, right now we have a crazy influx. People are joining, searching for a community, not able to find it so making their own. And the more new ones are being created every second, the less likely they are too actually get seen and followed and federated, so it's a vicious cycle.
BUT once user numbers stabilise and everything has chance to federate properly I think we'll see people preferring to join an existing community than make their own as they'll actually show up in a search. In cases where there are already a few one will just rise to the top over time.