from atomicpoet@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 21:03
https://lemmy.world/post/35499688
cross-posted from: piefed.social/post/1233021
After a week of building and curating !videogames@piefed.social, 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:
threaded - newest
I like having someplace nice to go when the previous place grows into a noisy echo chamber.
cool. more piefed shit. I blocked piefed instances for a reason and now I have to see this shit?
What’s wrong with piefed? Genuinely asking
piefed users have a “quirky” personality flaw about bringing up how great piefed is when it wasn’t asked for or even relevant to the discussion. case in point, posting on a lemmy instance about a milestone on piefed. although not completely irrelevant to the community, I don’t really get the justification about posting on here about a different instance other than self promotion.
it would be like me posting on here about my personal instance. yeah sure, it’s gaming adjutant, but wholely a cheap ploy to deliver free advertising to an instance that is siphoning interactions and content away from the community.
secondly, I don’t believe any of the points about piefed being “better” since a social media platforms performance by users is entirely subjective by the user. I don’t believe any platform that uses Reddit, Twitter, or Facebook as a shining example of what “good” is should be trusted. this is also applicable to lemmy and mastodon at large. the only thing that the platforms have going for them is federation, but even that can be damaging to the users (eg: hexbear/ml instances).
my point is, I don’t like piefed because everyone on it seems so pushy to get others to be on it. it is working though, posts on lemmy have noticeably dropped over the last couple months. presumably shifting to piefed, which I have blocked the instances of so I couldn’t tell you one way or another.
One thing to consider is the recent shutdown of lemm.ee which I believe was the second largest instance (by MAUs) after LW.
Blocking Piefed seems excessive, but that’s your choice.
You don’t need to be on Piefed. Federation means you can stay on Lemmy, use whatever community you want, regardless of whatever platform it is.
The reason I’m mentioning the milestone here is because I want to build a general gaming Piefed community.
Not one that competes with this one, but one that complements it. You can enjoy multiple gaming communities, each with a different culture.
Anyway, this is the Fediverse—not Reddit, not Instagram, not TikTok. We’re not competing against each other. We’re building together.