Patient Gamers - Lemmy
lemmy.ml
A gaming sub free from the hype and oversaturation of current releases, catering to gamers who wait at least 12 months after release to play a game. Whether it’s price, waiting for bugs/issues to be patched, DLC to be released, don’t meet the system requirements, or just haven’t had the time to keep up with the latest releases.

There’s another community already for patient gamers here: [email protected].

Consider consolidating to just one community to not split our relatively small group.

I’ve joined both, but will probably be more active at the other.

      • GeekyNerdyNerd
        19·
        2 years ago

        There is something ironic about a bunch of authoritarian nutjobs making an free and open source decentralized platform.

        • Ergonomic_Keyboard
          11·
          2 years ago

          Hardly dumb. Offer a free and open space you secretly have a back door into and let it get populated. This happens all the time. A recent example would be some crypto exchanges that were secure and anonymous that suddenly disappeared with all the accounts.

          I’m sure you can think of other examples too!

          -edit- At first I thought it was just satire, related to “communism” thing, more just anti Laissez-faire monopoly capitalism(yes I had to google how to spell that repeatedly!). But…wow, I’m the one that is nieve it seems!

        • gawdahm
          6·
          2 years ago

          Nothing a hard fork can’t fix :D

          EDIT: in the git sense, not literally stabbing people with a hard fork

        • redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.com
          2·
          2 years ago

          Open source is similar in spirit with communism, which is all about equality of access to resource (or in this case, source codes). Like in communism, you could say some comrades are more equals than others.

      • AllHailTheSheep
        6·
        2 years ago

        well those are the dumbest takes I’ve seen today, and I scrolled through Twitter today.

    • sugar_in_your_teaOP
      10·
      2 years ago

      K. I’m no fan of lemmygrad, and thought lemmy.ml was a completely separate thing.

      Are there any places that provide open criticism of the owners/admins of each instance? Like “federation meta gossip” or something like that? Obviously a community about patient gaming isn’t the place for this kind of discussion, but I would like to make an informed decision as to where to put my efforts.

      • juxtanother@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 years ago

        Yeah I’d be interested in a community like that, looks like this was posted on another instances Meta community, anyone know of somewhere for Lemmy meta posting?

          • juxtanother@lemmy.world
            2·
            2 years ago

            Ooft, that’s unfortunate. I guess as this thread shows, not a lot of people are aware of the issues with lemmy.ml, wonder if it’s enough to push people away from that instance.

            Thanks for your info, much appreciated

  • Hanabie
    32·
    2 years ago

    I don’t think it’s a “dupe”. The same community can have different rules or expectations or culture in different places, and eventually, people will settle down where they feel comfortable. For some, that’s the most populated place, for others, the one that aligns best with their own interests and vibe.

    Personally, I’d rather not get invested in the .ml place, considering who’s running the instance.

    • Kaldo@beehaw.org
      11·
      2 years ago

      Exactly, and when/if we get a way to group them together “multireddit style”, then it’s going to be even less of an issue hopefully.

    • fromzerotoinfinity
      3·
      2 years ago

      Haven’t been on the .ml instance too much, what’s going on there? Nevermind I see the threads below about the admins supportive of lemmygrad & co

  • nanoUFO
    27·
    2 years ago

    No thanks lemmy.ml has it’s own weird instance rules that I want nothing to do with.

  • Killer_Tree
    17·
    2 years ago

    I imagine there will be many duplicates of several subs over the next while. That means Highlander rules will eventually go into effect!

    • sugar_in_your_teaOP
      6·
      2 years ago

      Fair, and I’m completely expecting that, which is why I’ve subbed to several related communities with the expectation that I’ll be culling that list.

      That said, sometimes communities can be hard to find, and the other already seemed to have good engagement, so it seemed like a good place to point people toward.

      I just wish there was a better way to vet the admins of each community and the owners of each instance. I’m happy to create my own instance if needed, but I’d rather build a community than build an instance.

  • AstralPath
    21·
    1 year ago

    I don’t think trying to centralize a community that relies on a decentralized platform is a very great idea. I get what you’re going for but I think the little pocket communities add a layer of safety from bad actors.

    • sugar_in_your_teaOP
      3·
      1 year ago

      Oh, I’m all for having more communities, I just posted this at a time when this community had a handful of people in it, and the other was also fairly small (<100 IIRC). I didn’t want people to assume that there should be a copy of each community on each instance, which kind of defeats the point of federation.

      I think it’s a good idea to have a few alternatives so if there are issues (e.g. defederation, bad mods, instance goes down), people have an established community to go to. But the preference should be for fewer, larger communities than tons of really small communities. Even in Reddit, we had several gaming communities (/r/games, /r/gaming, /r/patientgamers, etc), and that was a great thing! But if there’s 100, that’s a bit much.