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  • simple@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    I’m the most active postee there (hello again). I prefer LW’s gaming community for a few reasons, a lot of which are kind of petty but still.

    1. I dislike the shitjustworks domain name, I think it’ll hamper community growth when a casual user base joins and thinks it’s a dumb name

    2. The people there often mirror /r/games posts, there’s nothing wrong with that and I enjoy browsing it, but I enjoy the more quality over quantity of LW’s community

    3. games@lemmy.world has clean icons and branding which is cool

    But mostly it’s just reluctance to move away from the largest gaming community in Lemmy. Content is hard to find, and I talked about this many times, leaving LW communities means splitting the userbase even more and wondering where the content is. People are tired of migrating and just want to post and discuss. If having a large instance causes technical issues, that’s more of Lemmy’s problem IMO.

    • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgOP
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      2 months ago

      Hello,

      Thank you for commenting!

      I agree with you with points 1 and 2.

      Content is hard to find, and I talked about this many times, leaving LW communities means splitting the userbase even more and wondering where the content is.

      Agreed on discoverability, that’s why we now have those threads, and that !newcommunities@lemmy.world is featured at the top of LW’s home page.

      On the other hand, sometimes it’s a bit frustrating. !movies@lemm.ee is now more active and with more content than the LW version, but some people still keep posting to it, while we offered moderation position to anyone who would like to (looking at you, !moviesandtv@lemm.ee ), and Lemm.ee is a well established instance with a neutral domain name.

      I moved !casualconversation@lemmy.world to !casualconversation@lemm.ee , left a pinned post there so that people could find the new community, it’s more active now that it used to be on LW.

      Anyway, that’s it for me, again thank you for your comment.

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      2 months ago

      Additional small comment: just had a look at the community, well done for the AMA with the game developer!

      To be honest, this community seems nice and we’ll run, my comment was more targeting at LW communities almost “name squatting”, which is definitely not the case here, well done!