I live an increasingly confusing double life as TeaHands the game dev, and TheGiddyStitcher, multicrafter extraordinaire!
Currently working on my first ever commercial indie game, a minimalist city builder.
This place is actually supposed to be that, if you look at the rules in the sidebar. But I think the mods probably started to despair at the sheer amount of people posting Lemmy support questions here instead.
Hopefully as people settle in, that eases off and makes moderation more viable. Interestingly !AskKbin@kbin.social (Lemmy / Kbin) has the exact same problem so it’s not just us.
I’ve been trying to go to the effort of formatting links like this:
!asklemmy@lemmy.ml (Lemmy / Kbin)
Which covers all the bases by including the remote URL and also the local version for both Lemmy and Kbin users, but is admittedly a massive faff. Still if it makes it easier for people, imma keep doing it.
First thing that comes to mind would be the saga of Jenny and Carly. I got zero work done for days it was so entertaining but it was clearly fake from the start.
Throw a load of them into the garden of your most hated enemy and watch them fall to the ant apocalypse instead.
Of all the Treks. Oof.
Star Trek TOS. I’m fine with this.
The main issue with the size of .world so far is just the technical stuff. Lemmy hasn’t really been tested at this scale before so we’re seeing various bugs and federation issues that have probably never been seen before either.
Personally I don’t think the Beehaw thing was a problem for people outside of the walled garden, only for those in it. I had an account there but had to move off to keep access to my fave communities, whereas the ones on there I was using from my .world account all have alternatives elsewhere so that account wasn’t “punished” like my Beehaw one was. This is of course a huge advantage of the community split, one instance can’t arbitrarily cut off your access to a certain topic.
What I’ve been doing is just subbing to all communities for a given interest, and seeing how it goes. Sometimes there are different goals /atmosphere in each, or sometimes I’ll just cross-post to all of them and see where folks are biting. I’ve already seen a couple of very niche communities start redirecting people to the bigger competitor so some amount of centralisation is just going to be natural over time.
UK here, ours was like this when I was little. Basically it’s because the hot water came from a tank up in the attic that could get all kinds of gross things in it (usually dead birds in ours for some reason).
It’s not a concern with more modern plumbing systems but a lot of people grew up knowing never to drink hot water from the tap.
It wouldn’t be a replacement for that other site without:
(those last two have posts with megalists of related communities too, for gamedev and crafts respectively, check them out if you’re interested in either topic)
We watched the Tolkien Edit when it first came out and it was a huge improvement, but was also a fairly rushed project so while it was good at the time it apparently doesn’t hold up against newer ones. Nowadays there are tons of different ones with different approaches, I hear good things about the Maple Films one but haven’t had chance to check it out yet.
Have you seen any of the fan edits? They’re limited by the source material obviously but you can do a lot with just cutting out all the unnecessary nonsense.
Went into this one mostly blind and the unexpected transition was definitely A Moment lol.
Nefarious.
It was definitely a nice twist on your typical demonic possession film, but I expect given that it’s basically an hour and a half of two men talking it wouldn’t go down well with your typical horror audience.
Could have done with a bit more mystery and a bit less telegraphing what was going to happen, but it was still an enjoyable time and the lead actor was great.
Recommend for anyone who likes their horror to lean closer to psychological thriller territory than the low-effort “just fill it full of screech noises and jump scares” fare.
Nice. Waiting for the first “meant to ban someone but misclicked and made them mod” complaints to start rolling in from them being so close together lol
Honestly no idea, I’m not a mod of anything so you’re better placed to know if there’s a way to do that.
I do think there’s a discussion to be had around whether it’s actually valuable to have all these empty communities sitting around though. Yeah, people might recognise the name and maybe even sub, but if there’s literally nothing in them then what’s the point?
Those are the ones I have a problem with. To be clear, the ones set up by people who attempt to seed content and get conversations going (like yours, I see!) are absolutely what this place needs. But the empty ones are growing in number and clogging things up in searches, making Lemmy as a whole look emptier.
Haven’t seen anyone mention this but some instances are themed around a topic or a country, with all their communities on that theme. So if you want your local feed to be on that theme, they’d be a good choice.
Most instances are general though, so local is full of a bit of everything.
Somehow genuinely had no idea Gojira were French so, TIL!
Also wtf South Africa.