For the past couple of weeks, some of us moderators of the subreddit r/Silksong, have been working on an exciting project. We’ve created a lemmy instance for fans of indie games. We officially run and support this instance and the Silksong community on it. Please check it out at [email protected]
I invite you, current users of the Fedi-verse, to join us at @indie-ver.se, subscribe and interact with the communities there, as they grow. So we can support both a more free internet, and indie game communities. See you soon!
also r/Balatro joined at [email protected]
Considering hytale is basically an indie game rn will there be a community for it there?
You are free to create the community yourself!
Not my favorite indie game but glad to have a place for them on the verse.
Bompanada! (Am I doing that right? I don’t actually speak your language.)
SHAW!
When your team has a moment, I would recommend setting up your instance on https://lemmy-federate.com/instances
This will automatically add your future communities onto other people’s instances so that users can immediately start using them. It helps a lot with community discovery. You can also send out the existing communities after the instance is registered.
I’m not by a computer right now, but I can send over our settings choices if you have any issues.
Well, I am having trouble even registering indie-ver.se on the website. It says I am not guaranteed on fediseer, but the instance has been guaranteed by feddit.uk and endorsed by a few other instances. I’ve made an issue on the lemmy-federate GitHub and DM’ed the creator on Lemmy. Hopefully the issue can be quickly resolved.
That’s amazing, welcome! I look forward to these communities growing.
The first link was broken for me, here are the 4 communities so far with clickable links for anyone else that wanted it:
That markdown doesn’t work well for community links. Sadly the Voyager app does wrap community links in markdown too, which deactivates the cross-instance-linking that was supposed to be achieved with this link format.
Writing them in plain text, without markdown, works best in my experience:
I think it’s my front-end which made the links into links with
[]()markdown syntax as well. I’m gonna fix that. Thanks!Thank you!
I’m also trying to help some of the new users on the linked posts but I’m running into Reddit’s Karma requirements. I don’t mind passing along the comments for a mod or someone else to post instead 😄
I had seen this a bit early, I could’ve approved you, so that you could skip over the requirements. Thanks for the help anyways!
Hyphen seems to have broken the link, at least for me.
That happens on some frontends, like Boost. Works fine on the website!
As a Boost user, can confirm
Why set up a Lemmy instance instead of creating a community on an existing instance?
Now you have to worry about hosting costs, domain renewal etc.Oh wait, IT COSTS MONEY?!? Oh noo… Anyway, I wanted the help smaller indie game communities get shown, so they won’t have to be spread across 20 different generic instances.
Because they like the fediverse and want to help it grow. Or maybe they didn’t want to have to deal with admins ever again.
If they really have the commitment to run that instance for years, and to organise a proper successor one day when they don’t want to do it any more - that would be growing the Fediverse. But if they abandon it after x years, they would be harming it.
I’ve tried to document the infrastructure around it, and made everything super organized, so that it’s both easier to maintain and hand over in case that’s ever needed.
Bit weird if they already didn’t take into consideration the costs of running a server
