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Started by Flemmbrav, June 10, 2023, 12:56:23 PM

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Flemmbrav

Heyo folks,

as reddit seems to be in an interesting position right now, I'm wondering if we could take that chance and promote the game ab bit on the upcoming alternatives.
That'd be a good chance to get some exposure as well as creating some content for a place that might be better for the earth than the current Reddit.
Sadly, I'm not exactly sure on where to go, and I doubt going somewhere alone would really help.
So anyone with me here?
Anyone that can suggest a nice place to migrate our then-hopefully-not-so-dead-anymore subreddit to?

jamespetts

I am not familiar with the details, but if we can find a federated alternative, that would be ideal.
Download Simutrans-Extended.

Want to help with development? See here for things to do for coding, and here for information on how to make graphics/objects.

Follow Simutrans-Extended on Facebook.

Isaac Eiland-Hall

I had created an account a while back on tildes.net and have started hanging out there, it's a very lovely community. I've actually mentioned Simutrans a couple of times. :) (Note: I am being extremely selective with my invites, please do not be offended if I run out or am unable to give one, but I can probably get a ocuple of people in. They are limiting open invites right now because they don't want to replace reddit, they like the small-knit community. So before you ask for an invite, please browse the site for a while and make sure it's something you really want. Once my invites are gone, I may not get any more for a long time, so I am being incredibly selective, and I've only a few left)

I'm also on Lemmy - right now bot on Beehaw.org and lemmy.ca, although I'm leaning more on using the latter as they allow for community creation by the users. I have, in fact, created Simutrans here: https://lemmy.ca/c/simutrans

If you are on lemmy, because it is federated, you can see the communities on any server and subscribe from whatever server you're on.

Also, much to my chagrin... I do not believe reddit will implode. They will lose some users - maybe 10% at most. Most will stay. Even if there is drama with some subreddits, they will only lose some good people. The site won't go away. I will, and I am very very very bitter about it. Very bitter.

Roboron

Should /r/simutrans go dark too? I just remembered I am the mod right now  :P

Quote from: Isaac Eiland-Hall on June 12, 2023, 02:05:40 AMI'm also on Lemmy - right now bot on Beehaw.org and lemmy.ca, although I'm leaning more on using the latter as they allow for community creation by the users. I have, in fact, created Simutrans here: https://lemmy.ca/c/simutrans

If you are on lemmy, because it is federated, you can see the communities on any server and subscribe from whatever server you're on.

Unfortunately, it seems that lemmy.ca currently has technical problems federating properly - at least with Mastodon. I can follow your account at beewhaw.org just fine, but I can't retrieve your account at lemmy.ca, nor the simutrans community.

Regarding federated alternatives, I'm seeing a lot of people mentioning kbin https://kbin.pub/en in addition to lemmy. I'm curious, I will test it today.

Also, I found this directory very useful to search for communities in the fediverse https://browse.feddit.de/

Isaac Eiland-Hall

On /r/simutrans going dark. Well, I'm of two minds.

First, subreddits going temporarily dark will change nothing. The only hope is for major subreddits to go permanently dark. Although I think then the admins will take them over. So even that is probably not going to resolve this problem. I am angry and bitter about that.

But second, it's a tiny community and would have tiny impact. I left /r/williamsburgva open because most users there aren't using third party apps anyway, so it would just disrupt the community and accomplish nothing.

I'm happy with all the subreddits that have gone dark. I am especially happy with those that say they will be dark until changes are made. But I don't think it'll be effective.

So ultimately, I vote... no on going dark for /r/simutrans.



Mmm, on beehaw, users cannot create communities. So if lemmy.ca is not accessible, that is unfortunate. I'll try to find time to find another federated site and see if I can create a community. Although anyone can, for sure. But I'm always happy to serve in that role. heh.

I've heard a little about kbin. Let me know what you think. If it's worth the time, I'll check it out.

Isaac Eiland-Hall

DOUBLEPOST!

I've created https://lemmy.world/post/104373 - and I'm @daychilde@lemmy.world now as well.

Roboron

I was just about to suggest using lemmy.world, as it seems the most stable and fastest Lemmy server!

Tried kbin at https://fedia.io, but it is still rough at the edges. For now, Lemmy is the obvious choice.

I used the @simutrans@fosstodon.org account to post to https://lemmy.world/c/simutrans and announce the Lemmy community to our followers at the same time (https://fosstodon.org/@simutrans/110538799334932014). God, I love federation.

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You are right. /r/simutrans is so small it won't make any difference