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Re: Hacker News for Gamedev

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Post by rglullis »

bloqs wrote: post #42
rglullis wrote: post #35

I think that after "this meeting could've been an email", we should start thinking "this website could've been a Lemmy instance". Even if you don't want to federate , all the functionality is already there, you can have a selection of web/mobile clients and you can apply whatever moderation policies you find suitable for the community you want to grow. And if you want to extend the reach and make it easier for other…

I had to get rid of lemmy. I know some instances are better than others, but the volume of unstable, immature zoomers (particularly the US variety) pushing openly communist rhetoric (and brigading and just abusing anything that doesnt conform to that) made it completely unusable. I really gave it several tries as well as I liked the tech. It was useless for discussing anything unless you aligned immediately with the…

I mostly agree with you (I'm staying on Lemmy despite the average user, not because of them), but this is not really relevant to the point here.

My point is that it would be really nice to have a gamedev instance that is able (but not required) to federate. Instead of creating yet-another discussion forum that is completely isolated from the wider network, they could simply set up a Lemmy server with federation disabled.

After the community is somewhat established, they could then start whitelist federation. Perhaps, they could open only with programming.dev. Then they could perhaps open federation to the Mastodon instances that are focused on indie developers/gamers.

The only way to get rid of this (current) scenario where Lemmy is only for frustrated tweenagers and keyboard warriors is by cultivating the alternatives in the Fediverse.

Re: Hacker News for Gamedev

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Post by stared »

hubraumhugo wrote: post #34

I've seen many "HN for X" projects for various niches now, and they all suffer from the chicken/egg problem of getting a critical mass of participants. Isn't game development already discussed here? I actually built a side project that categorizes front page articles so I can filter for topics. Here's an example for recent gamedev content: https://www.kadoa.com/hacksnack/d57360e8-1eb1-4800-a711-f0d5...

For me, "HN for X" sounds like a "Reddit channel with a sense of grandeur".

Starting one is easy, but maintaining both quality and popularity is hard - here, HN is a rare exception.

Re: Hacker News for Gamedev

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Post by stkdump »

stared wrote: post #53
hubraumhugo wrote: post #34

I've seen many "HN for X" projects for various niches now, and they all suffer from the chicken/egg problem of getting a critical mass of participants. Isn't game development already discussed here? I actually built a side project that categorizes front page articles so I can filter for topics. Here's an example for recent gamedev content: https://www.kadoa.com/hacksnack/d57360e8-1eb1-4800-a711-f0d5...

For me, "HN for X" sounds like a "Reddit channel with a sense of grandeur". Starting one is easy, but maintaining both quality and popularity is hard - here, HN is a rare exception.

Also I thank that moderating a popular forum is dang hard.

Re: Hacker News for Gamedev

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Post by 1ste »

Assuming this is your site OP, well done for getting it built and launched. I noticed other comments saying "why not lemmy", "why not filter on game dev topics on HN". I think the opposite. Forge your own path and who knows where it will take you.

Re: Hacker News for Gamedev

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Post by burgerrito »

bloqs wrote: post #42
rglullis wrote: post #35

I think that after "this meeting could've been an email", we should start thinking "this website could've been a Lemmy instance". Even if you don't want to federate , all the functionality is already there, you can have a selection of web/mobile clients and you can apply whatever moderation policies you find suitable for the community you want to grow. And if you want to extend the reach and make it easier for other…

I had to get rid of lemmy. I know some instances are better than others, but the volume of unstable, immature zoomers (particularly the US variety) pushing openly communist rhetoric (and brigading and just abusing anything that doesnt conform to that) made it completely unusable. I really gave it several tries as well as I liked the tech. It was useless for discussing anything unless you aligned immediately with the…

Feel free to remove my comment if it's not allowed.

I am _very_ disappointed with Lemmy. The community is full of echo chambers, and that's already bad.

But what broke the camel's back for me is the fact that one of the Lemmy creators one day literally posted what I will describe as a propaganda website. I had to double check, but nope, it definitely is a propaganda website. The fact that you made a software just to spread your dangerous ideology is _so_ disgusting. Malicious.

I used less and less Lemmy since then.

This also prompted me to contribute to PieFed[1], but at this point Fediverse for me does not feel the same anymore. That event left a bad taste in my mouth.

I also have had bad experience with Mastodon, but this reply is already long.

The word Fediverse has "diverse" in it, yet it feels like anything but diverse. It's full of people with same beliefs screaming the same argument every day. It's full of that open source purists forcing you to change to Linux or something like that[2][3].

[1]: https://join.piefed.social

[2]: https://mas.to/@TechConnectify/112995177480955078

[3]: https://kevquirk.com/blog/linux-elitism-again

Re: Hacker News for Gamedev

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Post by abcd_f »

innerHTML wrote: post #19

I love the idea, unfortunate the way this site is presented is such a incredibly busy and noisy way, it makes it so uncomfortable to look at I couldn't use this. I think hacker news aced it with the clean look, although sometimes I wish for a dark theme.

It would certainly help being able hide tags easily, as a guest. They add way too much visual noise without adding much in terms of the ux.

The choice of colors is also rather unconventional and not exactly appealing.

Re: Hacker News for Gamedev

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Post by t_mann »

stared wrote: post #53
hubraumhugo wrote: post #34

I've seen many "HN for X" projects for various niches now, and they all suffer from the chicken/egg problem of getting a critical mass of participants. Isn't game development already discussed here? I actually built a side project that categorizes front page articles so I can filter for topics. Here's an example for recent gamedev content: https://www.kadoa.com/hacksnack/d57360e8-1eb1-4800-a711-f0d5...

For me, "HN for X" sounds like a "Reddit channel with a sense of grandeur". Starting one is easy, but maintaining both quality and popularity is hard - here, HN is a rare exception.

> For me, "HN for X" sounds like a "Reddit channel with a sense of grandeur".

it's a bit sad seeing such a derisive comment about self-hosting on HN

Re: Hacker News for Gamedev

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Post by dewey »

t_mann wrote: post #59
stared wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For me, "HN for X" sounds like a "Reddit channel with a sense of grandeur". Starting one is easy, but maintaining both quality and popularity is hard - here, HN is a rare exception.

> For me, "HN for X" sounds like a "Reddit channel with a sense of grandeur". it's a bit sad seeing such a derisive comment about self-hosting on HN

It’s not about self hosting, it’s about how community building is hard.
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