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 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’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.
Hi, hello and howdy! Glad to have more options!
Welcome!
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.
Well, I mean since all are different instances that aren’t owned by the same person it’s way harder to buy it up
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.
Nice, glad to see this community here.
Hi! Thanks for this and great to see some promising participation and posts already and it feels like a new home
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
Thank you for making this! :) It was one of my favourite places to read discussions about games I’d not got round to playing or waiting to play. :)
I’m not sure if I’m patient or just slow. The mould seems to fit though.
Welcome! I hope more ex-redditors will join here. Lemmygrad is for mostly far-left.
Like, anarcho-socialist far left, or “making excuses for nominally ‘communist’ dictatorships” tankie far left?
Regardless, beehaw seems cool so far also. I’m feeling hopeful overall!
Marxist-Leninist mostly, that instance is designed for them.
patientgamers is one of the best gaming subs on reddit, good to see it here as well. Thanks for creating it.
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.
