That is my favorite genre too! I've been using your posts here to discover more of them, as well as a list of works here on TVTropes and filtering by the Villainess tag on MangaDex.
Thanks to the reminders from this community about new chapters, I reread the whole thing since it's been a bit and I'm pleased to see this chapter too! Back when there were less chapters posted I went to read the web novel, translated poorly right in my browser by Google Translate, and I can definitely say we're approaching the end of the story. It has been a fun ride.
Wonder if they'll also adapt the extra chapters/side story things after the end (includes stuff from different POVs)?
The story of the light novels centers on a man who dies in the modern world while harboring a longing for magic, and is reincarnated in another world as a baby named Shion. Hoping that magic finally exists in another world, Shion is disappointed when he finds out that magic also does not exist in this new world. One day, while visiting a lake with his sister Marie, Shion witnesses a mysterious phenomenon that was "like magic." Shion then decides to be a pioneer of magic in another world and starts researching about magic.
Just found out about this show from ani.social. From the synopsis in the post body I thought it would be a reverse of the isekais where a modern person brings science to a magical and medieval society—an isekai where a person from a magical society introduces magic to our world of science and 0 magic. Upon clicking the link I found out it wasn't that, sigh…
Hey, thanks for the advice! I'll try to implement it when I can—some posts lend themselves better to images than others.
I admit I'm one of the wanderers. I pop in via Local from time to time because sometimes there is cool stuff, but I'm not subbed because otherwise stuff I'm not interested in would overwhelm my feed. A quick skim via checking in from time to time or Local works better for me.
I see you as a mod a lot around Lemmy. Thanks for your work!
Is this a case of culture clash or me being oblivious, where an actual decent amount of people would think less of Visa for allowing transactions to go through with this? Because to me they just handle money. Never occurred to me they would take a stand against any kind of transaction that is not, you know, illegal or outright murder-for-hire.
I wanted to keep !otomegames@ani.social discussion-focused instead of just imagespam of otome game characters. I'm not budging on that but given this is the advice for growth, oof for potential growth. I do welcome memes about otome games, but just reposting someone else's fanart is against the rules. Posting your own is welcome.
One thing I always wanted more of out of anime/manga communities on Reddit was more discussion, less fanart I could easily find by just going on Pixiv—but each community was almost always imagespam.
I guess this puts me in the minority :(
On the other hand, Reddit's r/otomegames is the same way, there is more discussion than imagespam, so there is hope.
!otomegames@ani.social has now acquired an icon that fits in with the rest of the instance—it's an anime picture! Still have to get going on the backup instance.
The weekly What are you playing posts tend to get at least some engagement nowadays.
I fixed up the OtomeGamesBot to post them for me, which I correctly marked as a bot account.
One upvote and nothing else.
I also recall it being possible to prevent bot posts from being shown to you. (Settings > uncheck Show Bot Accounts)
I'll let the bot post again two more weeks, and if the posts continue getting less engagement than I'm used to seeing I'll probably need to go back to posting them on my account instead.
r/otomegames has it so advertisements for other communities are all relegated to a Self-Promotion Sunday thread that nobody looks at.
I did reach out to the mods to ask if they'd be willing to do anything for this, they're not interested on moderating off of Reddit or putting this in the sidebar, so very slow organic growth it is...
I do exist on otome Discords and I talk there way more than I self-promote, but I have promoted this there and I don't think anyone has bitten yet. ;-;
I actually don't remember what taught me about Lemmy and Kbin's existence. I know it was over the API exodus, but not sure if it was a news article or a Reddit thread. It definitely wasn't someone DMing me to join, I would have taken that as spammy and annoyingly promotional and rejected it instantly. Bringing this up because if we want to grow the Fediverse it's probably worth thinking about what got us to move, and what let us even know it was an option.
Not sure where else to put this, but I appreciate ani.social for new anime/manga discovery. Sometimes I toggle on Local and look around, and I often find an anime or manga title that sounds interesting, I click it, I look it up online and maybe read some discussion here about it if applicable, and add it to my ever-growing list of stuff to read or watch.
It is also funny because I see people writing that they didn't like an anime or manga for X reason, and X reason is exactly what draws me to it. I find both positive and negative reviews pretty useful as long as you say why you (dis)liked it. You tell people what kind of content is there (often tells more than just the promo content for the anime/manga/book/film/game/whatever it is), and they can judge for themselves. I always toss over an upvote to these because they are useful on telling me if I'd like the content or not, even if the opinion they have on the work ends up being opposite to mine.
Pleased that !otomegames@ani.social gained what looks like another active participant :)
Lots of downvotes on a recent post on !otomegames@ani.social that regular commenters engaged with happily, so I'm wondering if it's just people seeing it on local and disliking it as typical mainstream social media fodder, or if it's subscribers who don't comment not liking it, or both. Remember all those "which pill would you take" and then there's a couple different-color pills giving you different superpowers? It was something like that, but on-topic for otome games. Kind of bewildered by that.
Have looked at other Fedi instances including Mbin for backups, didn't find one that was just centered on games. Guess it'll probably be lemmy.zip.
This is terrible for artist exposure but great for keeping my hands free of Facebook: I usually click and enlarge the image on Lemmy without ever touching the source link. But I do appreciate you attributing the source when the picture is not something you shot, I always thought that was appropriate netiquette. I link the source myself if I'm posting something I did not make. If it's on some undesirable place like Facebook I add in a little "link goes to Facebook" warning if it isn't just a plain URL where you can literally read the link is on Facebook.
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We also receive information using cookies and similar technologies, like the Meta Pixel or Social Plugins, when you visit other websites and apps that use our Business Tools or other Meta Products.
So even though I don't have an account myself, so many non-Facebook sites use their business tools, have that tracking Meta Pixel embedded that they have my data anyways. I am aware you might say "then why worry about going to their site, they have stuff on you anyways," I don't want to give them more and it is the principle of the thing. I'm not helping them by being another of your 300 friends on Facebook so you feel a tiny bit of additional pressure to give in and get one to stay in touch with people. This is probably why people don't want to be infected with Facebook cooties.
One way I look at it, and that you might want to advise these people to look at it, is that they benefit from our data without paying us a cent. We benefit back by having you use their hosting to store the cute owl image so we can see it for free on Lemmy without having to go to their website. I remember storms being made about hotlinking awhile ago on the internet. Wikipedia says it's also sometimes known as "bandwidth theft" or "leeching". I am not an "eye for an eye" type but Facebook is a huge corporation, not a human being with feelings or human rights. Facebook leeches my data, I encourage people to leech their bandwidth :)
A lot of communities I participate in are thankfully drama-free but it is hard for me to forget there are mods because the person providing a lot of the content usually has a little M for Moderator next to their name ;-; I'm glad yours has enough participants that I assume that does not happen
I have noticed that the otome creators who are on the Fediverse are on Mastodon. I'm not going to give up on !otomegames@ani.social, I prefer threaded discussion to microblogging, especially because threaded discussion allows more characters per post. But I figure if I want to help grow otome on Fedi and show there are interested gamers here, maybe attract some otome players to post here instead of r/otomegames, maybe I should go where there are people. (And try to get them to post on !otomegames@ani.social!) I love r/otomegames, nice bunch of people, no hate, it is just… well… on Reddit. I came to Fedi to get off of Reddit. I applied on https://mstdn.games and am waiting for approval.
Still very grateful for the one person who is not me who makes posts on !otomegames@ani.social, they have their own communities that are pretty cool too! Check out theirs at !renpy@discuss.tchncs.de
That is my favorite genre too! I've been using your posts here to discover more of them, as well as a list of works here on TVTropes and filtering by the Villainess tag on MangaDex.