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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by ssnoer@indie-ver.se to c/games@lemmy.world

For the past couple of weeks, some of us moderators of the subreddit r/Silksong, have been working on an exciting project. We’ve created a lemmy instance for fans of indie games. We officially run and support this instance and the Silksong community on it. Please check it out at !Silksong@indie-ver.se

I invite you, current users of the Fedi-verse, to join us at @indie-ver.se, subscribe and interact with the communities there, as they grow. So we can support both a more free internet, and indie game communities. See you soon!

to the moderators, hope this post does not break advertising rules. feel free to remove it, if it does

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[-] Dremor@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Welcome on this side of the web. I hope you'll find it cozy, and full of new encounters.

I'll add your sub to the sidebar asap.

Edit : Done

[-] ccunning@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago
[-] ssnoer@indie-ver.se 2 points 2 weeks ago
[-] michael@piefed.chrisco.me 3 points 2 weeks ago

Nice! GL and may you get good.

[-] FirmDistribution@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

This is a perfect partnership! Federated social medias and indie games. It's the small guys getting together!

[-] a14o@feddit.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

Awesome, that's exciting news!

(A good way to link to communities is like this: !Silksong@indie-ver.se - that way I can click and subscribe while staying logged in.)

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

Might be a Boost bug, but the link doesn't include anything past the hyphen.

[-] a14o@feddit.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

Interesting, seems like a bug in the client.

[-] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I imagine so. I don't use Boost, but I posted about the behavior to the Boost community, so hopefully they'll get it straightened out.

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's not a bug, it's an unimplemented feature. The !community@instance syntax is not part of any Markdown flavour, so every client has to implement it independently, and it's possible that it collides with some other kind of token (e.g. with the @user tag).

[-] John_CalebBradberton@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

This is cool

[-] lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago
[-] blazeknave@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

And your first link ever is to Reddit...

[-] ssnoer@indie-ver.se 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yea, that is to the post announcing we created this community. In hindsight, not the best decision.

[-] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's good to know when Reddit moderators see the light and help transition their communities over before Reddit interferes. !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com is another example of that.

[-] Agent_Karyo@piefed.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Welcome!

A good existing indie game community:

!bside@fedia.io

Some genre/theme specific communities that focus mostly on indie games:

Considering how small the Threadiverse is, it's best to not duplicate comms.

Feel free to reach out in DMs if anything.

[-] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

At first I nodded my head to this since it adds user volume in one place, but this is the Fediverse, where no one set of mods or communities gets to "own" anything.

People can subscribe to both, so to me, the "best to not duplicate" is the antithesis of the Fediverse's purpose.

[-] JPAKx4@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

That's awesome news!

[-] _ed@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 weeks ago

This is what I love to see niche instances that specialise in an area rather than trying to be another generalist / reddit. At this stage you’ll prob need to fight discoverability issues. Cheering for ya.

[-] ssnoer@indie-ver.se 1 points 2 weeks ago

Posting on r/Silksong helps a lot. We've been in contact with many moderators all across Reddit, trying to get them to join us, but that is still developing.

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