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Elevator7009

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  • "You should create a group when demand is there and not the other way around." In other words, start from generalist communities, and create more specialized ones when there is a need. Do you agree?

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  • Somehow !adventuregames@lemm.ee has also absorbed puzzle games there. Not where I'd think to look but okay.

    If you made a puzzle game community I'd totally follow and post whenever I see one.

    Sadly I do not really engage with video essays because… ugh, video, I'd rather read an article. Shame, because I wish I could say "I'll engage with this high quality content!" but truth is I have some I reject on personal tastes too. But I promise there are people who will, even if it is only a few. Speaking as someone trucking on with some communities of like… one other person, and I am lucky to have even gotten them because I was screaming at the void for awhile now.

  • "You should create a group when demand is there and not the other way around." In other words, start from generalist communities, and create more specialized ones when there is a need. Do you agree?

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  • lol I have been trying to compile a list of all active video game genre communities to release here at some point, thanks for helping me with some I did not know of, here's what I had so far

  • "You should create a group when demand is there and not the other way around." In other words, start from generalist communities, and create more specialized ones when there is a need. Do you agree?

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  • I do not play that much gacha and only hear stuff, so thanks for telling me that that is actually normal and not revolutionary—the way I hear it told is you have to have that five star SSR unit to clear some gameplay content or whatever.

    I know myself. I'm very good at getting my time sucked from me, but my actual money? I'm extremely stingy with that when it comes to media given my very picky tastes (I'll express interest in lots but in the end I only bother to actually pop for a few things) and the huge amount of media out there, even moreso when it involves paying for MTX. I think I've spent maybe $20.00 over 15 years on any game with MTX total. Paying for microtransactions, especially in-game currency that gets used to roll the virtual dice (instead of to make a 100% guaranteed purchase of something), makes me feel filthy in a way buying a whole new game or buying a guaranteed thing does not, especially because I learned about the gambling thing at a very young age. (I did spend $5.00 on in-game currency once, do not regret it but will never do it again.) And because I had the privilege of education about tactics used both in lootboxes and regular gambling at a young age, I always looked down on it before I ever tried it. I never will try real gambling, although I did eventually try games with lootbox mechanics. I still have my distaste for that monetization model, I'll generally avoid most games with it, but because those two deliver me specific things I want in a way where I do not feel any pressure to spend money, I continue to play. Thank you for your concern, though. I understand being opposed to that monetization model. It's not where I draw my line in the sand but I do understand others drawing it there.

    I also played a ton of F2P with premium currency as a little kid just because they hadn't all implemented a way to defeat just shifting forward timers. I did have to put in extra effort but in return I earned premium currency or progressed through the game faster than I was "supposed to" without paying real money to get that faster advancement. So that probably informs my willingness to go near the gross transactions with video games but not in real life gambling.

  • Is there a community for BAME people? As in black, Asian etc

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  • Nah, this is cool information to know. I might be East Asian but I have never been hit by discrimination in my life and, naturally, as a US citizen who does not really travel, I have a very US-centric view and do not always know how race/ethnic relations go down in other countries. Thanks for the lesson!

  • "You should create a group when demand is there and not the other way around." In other words, start from generalist communities, and create more specialized ones when there is a need. Do you agree?

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  • oh god when was this posted and when did this drama fire happen ;-; with no context that sounds so much more like ragebait aimed to get women with traumatic experiences to say "bear", then pissing off non-rapist men who do not want to be feared as much as a dangerous wild animal that guns often do not put down quickly, than a legit question

  • "You should create a group when demand is there and not the other way around." In other words, start from generalist communities, and create more specialized ones when there is a need. Do you agree?

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  • Hey, thanks for the explanation! The primary idea I had going on was mostly about people mistaking it for a titillation game aimed at men because that is the one someone explained in the comments there, anyways. The women idea is something I actually just thought of typing up this post, lol. I did say I got a progressive vibe from the Fediverse, not a sexist one.

    For what it is worth it is indeed gacha, but none of that is required for meaningful progression in-game. From what I have heard of other gacha games you have to have some rare units or whatever from the gacha to pass some actual game content. I can do all story and gameplay stuff F2P. I think most Style Challenges can be beaten more easily with gacha but were all able to be beaten F2P, and all Style Challenges gating story content can be beaten F2P. As far as gacha goes it's pretty good. If they start locking actual gameplay, and not just rewards, behind gacha then I'll get pissed and leave. I play because high-quality game aimed at women, which is really rare. I usually also avoid gacha games and also dislike microtransactions.

  • Is there a community for BAME people? As in black, Asian etc

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  • Glomming onto this comment to say as an American person I have never heard of BAME. I've heard of BIPOC, which I always thought was "black and indigenous people of color," just black and indigenous folks and not the rest of us, but I could be wrong. I have also heard of POC, "people of color," for anyone nonwhite. Speaking as an Asian woman.

  • "You should create a group when demand is there and not the other way around." In other words, start from generalist communities, and create more specialized ones when there is a need. Do you agree?

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  • check my edit lol

    I am not going there specifically because most women-only communities I have been in have complaining about sexist men and the patriarchy, and this one will allow it. I come to internet communities to have fun, not to doom about other people facing oppression and how some day my bubble will pop and I'll face it too (yay for being a counter example to "every woman has a [sexual assault] story" because I do not and god I hope it stays that way). I understand the value of a support community, I have just repeatedly found that most support communities end up being unhealthy places for me specifically.

    Especially because they almost always "punch up" at the majority, and I understand why it happens but holy hell do I really not want to see it, makes me all kinds of uncomfortable and angry even though I am usually part of the minority demographic punching and not the majority getting punched at. My energy is far better used fighting for minority rights in real life than getting pissed at them online (and tbh I'll probably never stop getting mad when I see that kind of language, yes I know their explanations and justifications for it which is why I stay out of their communities so I don't see the upsetting talk instead of lecturing them on why they should not vent frustrations in a safe space for them cordoned off from the general public, where venting that does not make "obviously this is venting" and "this doesn't apply to everyone in the majority ever" disclaimers can be expected).

    I wish them luck, and in their first days I did send a list of communities other women might like.

  • "You should create a group when demand is there and not the other way around." In other words, start from generalist communities, and create more specialized ones when there is a need. Do you agree?

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  • Just want to clarify it could be both reasons or just one of them. I do get a nice progressive vibe from the Fediverse, not a sexist one. People were good and nice about the WomensStuff community. I am hardly the person to turn to sexism as my first explanation for things—in other words I'm no stereotypical angry feminist and my hair has never been dyed, thank you very much. But individual assholes who break that norm do exist, hence me still wanting to be cautious about sexist behavior in my OP

  • "You should create a group when demand is there and not the other way around." In other words, start from generalist communities, and create more specialized ones when there is a need. Do you agree?

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  • In general, yes.

    I went and made !otomegames@ani.social instead of glomming into the existing visual novel communities half because someone else had started an otome community that died, so I felt okay making one (and then another when the instance died).

    And half because 1) most of general gaming communities does not care about anime romance visual novels aimed at women and I did not really want to see a bunch of name-calling towards us, and 2) although the only currently-active visual novels community would be fine to post to, when I started there were more and the audience was very much dudes who like women. Although there is an overlap between people who play games aimed at horny straight men and people who play otome games (I know some!), it's much smaller, and most otome players I know are women who do not wanna see VNs where we're highly sexualized. I can understand the same for men not wanting to see VNs full of our romantic fantasies (although the dudes in ours are less-often sexualized). I am cool with games aimed at horny men existing, but that does not mean I want to step into a space posting them all the time, the same way I am happy to let other people eat lemons but I'm not putting one in my mouth.

    The current !visualnovels@ani.social probably would not reject otome posts, but what it used to be probably would, and the old VN communities probably would too; and most though not all otome players would reject the greater surrounding VN community of the past (what it currently is on ani.social would probably be accepted) because of how often what was posted there would turn out to be galge and not more gender-neutral stuff anyone could like like Ace Attorney.

    Finally, the way !newcommunities@lemmy.world and !communitypromo@lemmy.ca reacted to a post for a game aimed at women, !infinitynikki@discuss.tchncs.de, with tons of downvotes, was either not very encouraging for anime content that was still gaming content getting put in general communities (especially because one commenter explained they mistook it for a game meant to titillate because the icon was an anime girl even though part of why I really like Infinity Nikki is because it is a nice open-world game where women aren't sexualized, but I can still have nice hair physics and clothing physics), or for content aimed at women getting received well in general spaces.

    We're small but I'd rather have this than nothing, or posting in big communities and getting constantly questioned about why I play a game where you can date fictional men instead of putting myself on the market in real life (lots of otome gamers are in happy, healthy relationships in real life! Or are not interested in relationships but still find fictional romance fun, or have trauma and are in a stage in their recovery where fictional romance is okay but looking for dates in real life isn't. In my circumstances, a relationship would be nice but I know I could be happy without one too, and sticking my neck out on some dating app or going to a bar would inevitably get me horrid behavior I have never faced in real life yet. So I'll keep living my daily life, which involves interacting with other humans, sometimes men, but not disrupting it by going to a bar as a non-drinker and non-dancer or downloading a dating app).

  • Media Do Distributor Sells MyAnimeList Site to Web3/AI Company Gaudiy

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  • I have my "what media do I want to consume later?" lists spread across multiple spots. This should be a nice kick in the butt to cut MAL out and move it to a different preexisting spot.

  • Is it a PTB move to ban a user if their only activity in a community is downvoting posts?

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  • I feel this could go several ways.

    Troll who just wants to make people feel bad. Ban them.

    Person who legitimately thinks content is low-quality, but likes the topic in general (perhaps no other Lemmy community exists for it?) and wants to see better posts. Leave it alone.

    Drive-by voter checking in from Local or All (sorting by New makes even small communities visible, so "we're not big" isn't immune), maybe they legit think it's low effort, or hostile and toxic. Or they just see Thing They Don't Like and downvote instead of using the system properly—not quite the same as a troll purposely, maliciously ruining things but in my opinion not a great practice at all, but also not quite a bannable offense, unless they actively subscribe to a community full of things they do not like just to shit on it. And I am guessing right now intent is pretty hard to prove.

    Because I can think of reasonable reasons to do this I would err on the side of not punishing a potential innocent. I'd wait at least until you see several extremely high-quality posts that are also inoffensive get downvoted. But I also get that downvoting everything in a community can be destructive. A big community can just shake it off, the upvotes will eventually outweigh the few downvotes. A small one will look like it has crap content if there is ~3 up/3 down to every post.

    Also, check patterns outside your community too. Explicit stated intent to ruin community in a comment? Goodbye. Upvotes things outside the community? More chance to be a normal user who's probably got an innocent reason to downvote.

  • How are you doing with your communities?

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  • Glad to hear your symptoms are gone, hope it stays that way :) Thanks for making the community for anyone who needs it

  • How are you doing with your communities?

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  • I have noticed how a lot of communities I participate in, not just ones I mod, have mostly me and one other person posting ^^; I am always grateful when I see people outside me and the other person, but I always wonder if it seems weird or desperate to say "hey welcome! Nice to see someone else here!" instead of just directly replying to the post.

  • Thoughts on "linkdumping", pacing posts, and a schedule posts feature

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  • In general, I feel a bit overwhelmed seeing a smaller community do a lot of posts in a single day. I expect it from big umbrella topics like video gaming in general, fitness, etc., big user base, naturally lots of people are going to have things they want to post and I should expect that. 10 posts from a niche community from the moderator… I like the spirit but you are drowning out all my other small communities ;-; I'd rather they spread them out with Lemmy Scheduler the way I do.

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  • Wondering if an option to opt a community out of downvotes outside subscribers would be a good idea.

    I remember being on Mbin and seeing some poor baseball community I was browsing with things that looked to be factual and from credible sources having about 3 upvotes and downvotes to most posts, making it look like the content was fake or low-quality. I'm wondering how many of those votes were actual subscribed people (or people interested in lurking), and how many were just trolls downvoting anything they could—which happened to congregate in on a tiny community with not too many supporters to shout out the troll voices (like when a post has 50 upvotes and 1 downvote and zero negativity in the comments—you can probably guess the downvote is not for "off topic" or "low quality" or "spam" or "cruel," just a troll being a troll).

    I do think the outside world's input is still valuable, but I do want to be able to protect small communities from having this happen to them, where every post looks like a shit contribution if you just check the votes even if the posts are good, because random people who downvote a topic because they just don't like that topic instead of blocking it from their feed or scrolling past, or actual trolls, got to it and there are not enough subscribers to drown the noise out.

    Posting because I think some small communities I'm in have total outsiders downvoting posts to the point it outweighs subscriber upvotes: they are usually totally inoffensive, have no misinformation, and are on-topic for the community and on par with the usual effort it takes to make posts in that community, and yet almost even in upvotes/downvotes.

  • How To Sell Drugs Online (Fast) - Community to talk about the Netflix series!

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  • Oh hey, nice username!

    I admit when this came across my feed I thought it was annoying and also illegal spam, then I read further and saw it's just a TV show and a valid community ad lol

  • How are you doing with your communities?

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  • I think part of the issue is that it would be nice to contribute but I'm not always super aware of smaller games that could fit the community.

  • How do I discover the Pixelfed content that is out there when so many big instances block exploration?

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  • Kind of surprised this is the take. Algorithms in general, just sorting by highest to lowest or whatever common problem that needs to be solved, aren't bad. "Algorithm" has become a dirty word mostly because of the stuff pushing short-form content over long-form content, outrage that generates engagement over something you would enjoy that doesn't enrage you enough to make you type fifty paragraphs and keep coming back to fight in the comments, etc. So I agree with the literal statement that algorithms aren't always bad.

    But as for what you meant, I'm super surprised at all the people who want an algorithm to feed them content and aren't satisfied. I looked for the stuff I was interested in, subscribed, and am happy. When I run out of content I either log off and do something else or go seek out stuff I'm kind of interested in. In my most charitable possible assumption, people who want algorithms are probably a lot less suspectible to getting pulled in by outrage and scrolling all day, and just want to be able to discover cool stuff fast, and the algorithms somehow worked to show them the cool stuff. In my experience I had to strictly stick to my Home feed with just stuff I subscribed to on Reddit to not see outrage porn, could never poke my head into Popular or anything without seeing some outrage sub like r/noahgettheboat or /iamatotalpieceofshit. And then they started forcibly sorting my Home feed by Controversial… yep. Stopped regularly browsing there really fast.

    I am just really wary of asking for algorithms back because I really don't want the Fediverse to become another place catered towards outrage porn for max engagement. I really want users to have options if this is implemented, so as not to force this algorithm on users like myself who like the "chronological order of stuff you purposely followed only" algorithm. And for that option to not be taken away from me in an effort to "drive growth!" and all that.

    I don't want to refuse others a good thing just because it's not for me, but I also have been burned by social media algorithms that were once nice chronological, and later became catered towards outrage and showing you content you never signed up to see without having an option to switch back to chronological and opt out of having RandomInfluencerYouDontFollow in your feed. Looking at you, Instagram. I signed up with my elementary school classmates, liked chronological feed, liked having Explore just be friends of friends… I still only follow people I know in real life but now Explore is a bunch of controversial memes, people selling stuff, and influencers who want me to form a parasocial relationship with them. This is also what my regular feed, which used to just show me chronological order posts only from people I follow, turns to once I scroll past maybe 7 posts my friends made. Have not fully deleted but also haven't touched the app in months now.

    I guess the real solution is giving people options and not taking them away because you decided to go public and need maximum eye-on-advertisement time. Hopefully Lemmy stays open source and different instances stay popular, so in case someone does try to take it public we can all flee to different servers and keep talking.

  • Otome Games @ani.social
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    What is something that will make you choose not to play an otome game?

  • Otome Games @ani.social
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    Do you have a favorite LI trope? If so, what is it?

  • Otome Games @ani.social
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    Arcana Famiglia Rinato release date: July 24th

  • Otome Games @ani.social
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    New otome game reviewer and their website

    otomehitorigoto.wordpress.com
  • [Closed] Moved to !fedigrow@lemmy.zip @lemm.ee
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    Self-promotion restriction rules and Fediverse growth

  • Otome Games @ani.social
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    What otome games are you playing this week of March 16, 2025?

  • Opensource @programming.dev
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    Flash otome game creator makes her games open source

    pacthesis.neocities.org
  • Games @lemmy.world
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    Doom is playable on PDFs (at least in Chromium-based browsers)

    gbatemp.net /threads/doom-is-now-playable-in-pdf-format.665621/
  • Ren'Py @discuss.tchncs.de
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    Question

    Content of this community: is VN dev stuff in general allowed?

  • New Communities @lemmy.world
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    Otome Games (again, because original instance went down)