With all the recent Reddit drama I’ve decided to look into roguelikedev communities in the federated spaces. One didn’t already exist so I ended up deciding to just make one myself. I’m not an experienced moderator but I’ve been very active in the /r/roguelikedev subreddit and should be just as active here.
Now that this space is setup it will be easier to start a discussion about alternatives to Reddit. Feel free to talk about your expectations of this community.
Yeah. I’d really prefer a federated community so that it’s accessible no matter where anyone ends up.
I’ll probably start sharing this community or /c/roguelikedev@programming.dev or both in my posts to Reddit and other places.
I’ve ended up with several accounts as I try to get familiar with these instances. There’s some stability issues on some instances and others are already having moderator drama.
lemmy.worldis very stable but some instances are having trouble dealing with trolls using its accessible account registration. So far it feels a lot like Godot in that it’s not the best but it feels like things will only go up from here if you endure it.Do you have a preference for which instance becomes the default one? e.g.
lemmy.worldseems much more popular, though it is much more general use rather thanprogramming.dev.I was thinking I’d cross-post any new content to both with a preference for
programming.dev.The issue is less about which one is more popular and more about which one might have federation issues.
lemmy.worldhas an open approval process which makes it more accessible for joining the Fediverse but causes grief as its users become associated with bots and trolls. If you follow the drama then you’d know that the large communitybeehaw.orghas defederatedlemmy.worlduntil better moderation tools can be made.programming.devis less at risk of being defederated and the community hosted there can be posted to just as easily fromlemmy.worldor any other instance.