So I have been using the Fediverse for some time, Started with Mastodon and Lemmy then moved to Kbin for a mix of both as well as features and have finally ended up on Mbin for the Bug Fixes.
A problem that I have come across is that gaming seems to mostly be in one sub such as this one instead of spreading across multiple subs like one for Terraia, Euro Truck Simulator and Hitman.
I find these gaming subs very broad compared to the more centred one-game / franchise subs. Does anyone else feel the same way?
There likely is not enough users to sustain individual game communities.
@ProdigalFrog That sucks, it would be really good to see the different gaming communities grow as I feel that’s one of the best ways to grow the Fediverse further than it already is. Especially as general Gaming Communities don’t really do it for me as I’m not interested in these games, I’m interested maybe in just learning or hearing about a certain game.
I feel that’s one of the best ways to grow the Fediverse further than it already is.
What I’ve seen happen is that someone with an interest in a more niche thing here will create a community for it, actively post in it for a couple weeks, and maybe a couple other people will post in it a couple times too, but then the creator loses interest or lacks material to post, and the community sits with old posts months old.
Not to dissuade you from making an attempt at creating those communities, but it’s just a little hard to sustain them without active participation to keep people coming back and growing.
You may even find that there are some active communities for games you’re interest in, but may just have trouble finding them. The best way I’ve found to discover communities is with Lemmyverse, using the communities tab at the top.
Kbin and lemmy are still relatively small things, so it’s hard to get a steady flow of content in more niche communities and there is allways the real possibility that multiple communities exist for a specific topic, but their members are unaware of the others.
But yeah, i’d enjoy specialized single game communities, hell i especially miss the various magic the gathering communities.
@Dunstabzugshaubitze I know there’s magictcg@lemmy.world for Magic but yeah it seems like the Kbin and Lemmy communities have a long way to grow just need more people using it to then fill the smaller communities.
To expand a bit on the user base issue: Even on Reddit with its giant user base a game needs to have a decently sized audience in order to sustain a healthy and active subreddit.
Now, hypothetically speaking, even if this place had a tenth of the user base, it would mean that a game would still need to be 10x bigger in comparison in order to maintain an active community.
For now, only a very, very small handful of games are above that threshold.
Put it on the pile over there by “we need more niche communities but we don’t have the user count”.
