I guess im just gonna help less people with their 3d printers now. I mostly want to keep up with arcade sticks and the subreddit didn't really seem to move unfortunately. So I'll still need to check back in every blue moon.
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arcade sticks
Like, stuff like Happ Electronics stuff for arcade cabinets, or you mean more-broadly non-flightstick joysticks for modern computers? I mean, I've already seen people on here somewhere talking about their arcade cabinet builds, though they may not be so high-traffic yet as to need a dedicated community just for the sticks.
Fightsticks as in custom controllers for modern (or retro) systems that are often associated with the fighting game community but also used for schmups or other arcade associated titles (or even just games that use digital controls only). Its got a modestly active community on reddit for sharing builds and mods and just projects or discussing parts. I do all of this over discord as well so its nbd.
Ah, gotcha, yeah, like the Happ stuff. Yeah, lemme see if I can find what I saw.
searches
I think the first link, from earlier in the week, was what I remember.
https://kbin.social/m/retrogaming/t/11783/What-s-your-most-ludicrous-retrogaming-object
So, yeah, a little bit of chatter, but not much, and not specialized to the sticks.
Followup, 48 hours later:
Saw this, remembered your comment, thought I'd point you to this:
https://kbin.social/m/retrogaming/t/141059/Immortal-joystick-Kickstarter
I lost faith in Reddit after Aaron Swartz died. The biggest lesson I learned in HS was that knowledge was real power and trust fundies will always try to take access to it and that’s what’s going on in the social media sphere these days.
I pretty much only engaged actively with niche videogame subreddits and absolutely zero of them have made the move over to kbin. I don't know if they'll ever pop up here unless there's another general exodus from reddit. Will the starcraft community move over? Barotrauma? Mechabellum? Monster Hunter?
And what about the niche dumb memey communities like DesirePaths, or toolgifs, or StupidDoveNests? Do those even have a chance of cropping up unless the mods over on reddit decide to unilaterally move their communities over?
I genuinely don't think so, so I'm a little lost right now.
I saw a link for monster hunter when I was scrolling the new communities community on I believe lemmy.world?
Edit https://lemmy.world/c/newcommunities I'm pretty sure I saw it in there however, I don't have a chance to look for it, my family just showed up lol
I don't know if they'll ever pop up here unless there's another general exodus from reddit. Will the starcraft community move over? Barotrauma? Mechabellum? Monster Hunter?
Monster Hunter isn't really niche. You're probably gonna see Monster Hunter communities already.
does a quick search
Try !MonsterHunter@readit.buzz or !monsterhunter@lemmy.world.
Kbin's auto-hotlinking is broken until the next release, as I understand it, but here are direct links that will work for kbin.social users like yourself:
https://kbin.social/m/MonsterHunter@readit.buzz
https://kbin.social/m/monsterhunter@lemmy.world
Ditto for Starcraft.
For now, I'd mention stuff without enough people to get a lot of traction on the larger gaming communities, and then bud off as the population increases. Or, y'know, start one and post content each day and wait for people to start straggling in.
this belongs in leopards ate my face. it was the protesters who made the last 30 days miserable for all redditors
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Nope, I'm good.
I definitely get it. Reddit provided a gateway into a lot of communities that either sparked my interest in, or gave me information on the various topics I'm interested in. Hell, some of the communities provided me with support during some rough times
From a developer standpoint, Reddit was the first platform that I used which had an open API that I could play around with (such as Python + PRAW) so seeing the (what is basically) a shutdown of their API felt like a stab in the back. I never ended up creating anything substantial for Reddit, but my heart goes out to the devs of the various third party applications who practically had their hard work and labor snuffed out for no good reason.
But as the years started to pass, Reddit became a place that I started to withdraw from. There were countless times where I'd felt like there was just no point in engaging anymore with people, I'd step into a conversation looking for a well thought out argument just because it went against the "hivemind" and that pretty much always turned out to be a mistake. The gaming community on Reddit was especially terrible for this...
That's fine though, I walked away learning that I don't actually have to put up with "fights" anymore. If I think that someone is responding to me in bad faith, I'm just not going to further engage anymore.
There are some communities I'll miss though, and while I do not think I'll completely withdraw from them if there are no alternatives, I will more or less just be an observer rather than an active participant.
I am a bit surprised however as to how far the drama with Reddit has reached. My mother asked me today whether I was aware of what was going on, I was even more surprised to hear that she uses old Reddit and she told me she knew that they'd be going after that next and when this happens she'd be dropping Reddit as well. I briefly brought up the Fediverse and gave a very quick explanation of Mastodon, Lemmy, and Kbin (and how they can all talk with each other) - I don't know if she'll pop up somewhere on the Fediverse anytime soon but maybe one day.
Oh well, time rolls on. We'll all just have to mark this chapter, turn the page, and move on (if that is what you want of course) to the best of our abilities.
No. Reddit had turned into doomscrolling for me instead of a place I enjoyed spending time. I would find myself feeling worse after having browsed reddit, not better.
Switching to KBin has totally changed that, it's more like a forum I go to see stuff and chat with people instead of a hellscape of depressing news and vitriol. I do not miss reddit in the slightest and I can live without the one or two communities there I actually participated in.
It's been a huge pain because no single platform can't be a drop in replacement for Reddit.
Not at all. I've been more productive at work too.
My life has been enhanced actually. Some disruptions in life are good, they cause us to re-evaluate ourselves and our goals, and send us in directions we might never have anticipated. Honestly i'm excited for the future of the Fediverse and it's potential.
Nah, I was already on the way out of Reddit, so this just gave me an excuse to delete my account entirely.