I saw the recent API charge news with Reddit and saw that people were discussing alternatives to Reddit in the event we all have to abandon it.
Joined Lemmy here and noticed one of my favorite subreddits had no Lemmy equivalent — so I created it.
I have no desire to be a mod, so if anyone wants to take on that role just let me know.
I’m just hoping people do post here if they’re checking Lemmy out and seeing what’s available community-wise.
Remember kids. It only works if you stay here.
It’s nice to see this sub exist outside reddit. Usually I’m patient on playing any new games so I can wait for them to be runnable on Linux if not native (ie, via proton)
I can wait for them to be runnable on Linux if not native (ie, via proton)
Yeah the steamdeck has really helped in that regard thankfully.
I’m running chimeraOS on my mini gaming pc in the living room and I’m always amazed at how I almost never need to check protondb anymore and just install games and they play fine.
Yeah it has been wonderful. I’m on Pop! OS right now, and no longer have to do any dual booting for the odd game like I did before COVID.
I remember a point where I owned every game that was payable on Linux, this was even a good while after steam launched for Linux. Now that’s just not possible.
Patient Gamers was one of my favorites too - I might repost some of my reviews here to add some content
Please do! That would be great!
I’m here, Reddit has been going the wrong direction for a while in my opinion, all the external money usually ruins things. Hopefully this type of thing is a bit more resistant to that.
Hopefully this type of thing is a bit more resistant to that.
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Well, I mean since all are different instances that aren’t owned by the same person it’s way harder to buy it up
Nice, glad to see this community here.
I’m not sure if I’m patient or just slow. The mould seems to fit though.
I’ve always valued the perspectives, reviews, opinions and recommendations of the members of r/patientgamers to help me find new gaming experiences.
Thanks for creating this community.
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Over 90% of my Reddit access is through a 3rd party mobile app; the future for this is looking a bit bleak.
I’m testing the waters of Lemmy in the unlikely event that the Reddit admins and the majority of users notice that it’s shooting itself in the foot with these changes to the API access policy.
Same boat here, I’m excited to try launching my own server. Best of luck to Lemmy!
Love the patient gamers subreddit but considering this community is so large already, I think I might make this my new home regardless of what happens to the subreddit. I hope others decide the same, perhaps we can start getting some good recurring posts and organized content to kick start this place.
In the meantime I’m gonna try and put forth some nice conversations in the comments.
Howdy!
Hi! Thanks for this and great to see some promising participation and posts already and it feels like a new home
Good to be here :)
Hi, hello and howdy! Glad to have more options!
Welcome!
patientgamers is one of the best gaming subs on reddit, good to see it here as well. Thanks for creating it.
It was one of my favorites as well and was the first one to pop in my mind when I was thinking about what subreddits I wish were here.
I figured since it didn’t exist yet I might as well just make it and hopefully others will see it and start up the community here.
Really cool to wake up today and see more people posting!
It’s actually a bit curious, like, what exactly about its topic of avoiding newer games makes people less likely to be asswipes? 12 months isn’t even that much and I always felt like ti should have been a wider margin, but given that the people who made posts were posting older games anyways, it was clear there was no need to worry.
I think it self-selects for people who are engaging with the games for the games, and who want to talk about the games, with less interest for their current popularity or the media buzz surrounding the games. Thus less bandwagon hate/love/whatever.
Probably trends older too, but that’s just a guess. It’s so easy to forget that people on the internet might be literally 12, but a lot of them are.
Nice idea to recreate the good communities that were nice on reddit, the most important thing is to have those subreddit equivalents, and people to participate and trying to makes those communities thriving.
Agreed 100%
It’s a bit of a bummer reading the reddit threads where some people are complaining about reddit alternatives not having millions of users. It’s sort of self explanatory (I thought) that nothing is a drop-in replacement for reddit right now because everyone is still just using reddit. You gotta start somewhere…
Yeah, unfortunately that’s the hardest part, creating nice alternative is not the most difficult part (even if it still difficult), but to have enough users to make the platform interesting and “self sustaining” enough really is, and I think it is even harder now than the time when there was the same kind of “exodus” from Digg to Reddit (I wasn’t there for that though)
The difference with the Digg to Reddit exodus is that the two communities were rival competitors working in the same space. It wasn’t a case of one being a huge monolith that everyone used and the other being a small unknown, they were more evenly matched and reddit already had plenty of content and community, and neither were household names.
The situation today is very different. If Lemmy takes off, which I hope it does, it will likely still be small compared to reddit. A bit like how young people are fleeing facebook for other platforms, but there’s still no platform actually displacing facebook.
The masses will always use some corporate pushed product ~ Lemmy may be like early days Reddit - a small community of tech ppl , then may grow and get better in the future with volume , but Facebook will probably never die because all ages (old) and non tech/agile ppl are using it now ~~
Does the Lemmy license prevent corporations running nodes? In fact, it doesn’t even have to be Lemmy.
If you think about email, it’s widespread and used by everyone; but it is still mostly ruled by corporations (Google’s Gmail, Microsoft’s Outlook/Hotmail) for the average personal user. The protocol is open but the servers are run by different corporations each with their own UI. I’d guess there’s probably no reason we won’t end up like that some day, with some corporation creating a big social network with proprietary code, that happens to work well with ActivityPub so they have heaps of content and users on day 1, getting over that common initial social media hurdle (that none of your friends use it).
Honestly a big commercialised Lemmy instance would already be a huge improvement over the current state, because it would still be federated
I don’t think it has to be that way. Like with Linux, I think there’s a set of UI and onboarding and accessibility and features problems that don’t get addressed well enough for it to draw in and work for a lot of people, but those are workable problems if enough people agree they’re problems and work on them.
I tried Linux once. Mint, because it was recommened as the most user friendly and akin to Windows. Installing it at all involved following a detailed walkthrough and checking a hash using cmd. Then it turns out it doesn’t even have a colorblind filter mode - the most basic of accessibility features people can just expect from Windows. And the Linux forums were full of people who wanted to lord it ovee others and make fun of newbies and try to trick them into deleting their OS, rather than helpful peple. Linus Tech Tips did a good video on similar problems trying to use Linux as a newbie.
This obviously isn’t near as bad as Linux in that regard, but still, it puts the fediverse thing forward first, and in a confusing way. It needs a clear, simple, stripped down onboarding just to get people in the gate, then if they want to stick around they can learn more later on.
That said, Tumblr also has a shite onboarding and that’s doing pretty well these days, too.
It’s worth it even if it never becomes the most popular, however. My favorite communities tend to be of middling size anyway. The disadvantage is the lower amount of hyper-specific communities that a giant userbase supports.
