It feels refreshing like the old days of Reddit minus the bad stuff. People discussing hobbies, music, technology and stuff.
The one thing this place needs now is gaming discussions.
I’d say the lack of retro and pre-2010 gaming discussions is partly because of the novelty and the relatively small size of Lemmy. Since it’s small and a sort of direct competition to the already-massive Reddit, Lemmy users sort of self select. In other words, it’s generally people who care about FLOSS or federation, anarchism, privacy —just to name a few of the things that I’ve seen a lot of here.
But that does not mean at all that those are the only kinds of topics that you’ll find, nor that new kinds of discussions are possible! As other users have suggested, go ahead! Create your own community! Or join an already-existing one and talk about your interests! You might be pleasantly surprised!
Sounds like nostalgia there, I remember around 2006 old reddit was a lot like 4chan, where link Russian roulette was seriously a thing, and I saw things I wish I never did on what seemed like a harmless thread. Reddit’s always had a shady, icky layer to me. There’s also the mass, thoughtless consumerism that doesn’t help things along.
I suppose lack of retro gaming discussion is simply because of amount of users, as the site grows I 100% expect it to be made and created. I’ve noticed a lot of comrades like Oblivion for some reason (I personally love modding it like one of those train sets models people spend years on). On emus a rom community perhaps?
I will try putting an effort into !retrogamers@lemmy.ml community. Hopefully it grows.
Post it on !announcements@lemmy.ml so people join
I will tomorrow after putting up atleast 1-2 welcome posts
There is itch, steam communities too.
I want stuff about retro games, emulator games, Flash games, pre 2010 popular titles. When DRM and DLC was a rarity, and devs made good games with passion. Relics of the past that are still alive.
Feel free to create communities you want to see. Some of them may stick, some of them may not, but this site is built of user contributions. I would definitely join pre-2010 gaming and retrogaming communities!
I simply cannot put enough time to create and run another community, it is a hard task to maintain reddit and lemmy instances of privatelife, and do my advocacy.
I can guide someone on this, as I happen to have immense experience with emulation, retro games, archiving and so on.
what kind of gaming discussion would you like to see?
Retro games, emulator games, Flash games, pre 2010 popular titles and so on. Could be a really unique thing.
/c/linux_gaming and /c/opensourcegames are reasonably active.
No need for garbage AAA or f2p game discussions :)
Maybe no need for you, and you don’t have to participate. More discussion here isn’t a bad thing.
yeah I agree, foss games are cool but most of them don’t even get close to what most proprietary games have been able to do unfortunately.
But ethics goes first. If you have problems with FLOSS games, participate in their development.
Resign to user rights is not negotiable. And more given that these games are not basic things for life.
Pop culture has nothing to do with FOSS ethics. Do you listen to music or movies only if they are made on an entirely complete FOSS hardware and supply chain?
Creativity if stifled by anything is a problem, be it ethics or lack of.
If can be created/edited and the license is libre I use to accept it.
However, yes, I encourage this. Mostly because games in this case are software.
I want my rights when I have a copy. I am in the libre culture, not only “libre software for utilities and tools” which seems the case to some people.
Even i promote libre culture, but pop culture does not work that way. Creativity expression needs money, and libre culture cannot satisfy the living needs and aspirations of the creative people.
Creative people.have their own needs, be it capitalist greed or aspirations, and they are the generators of creations. Creativity does not happen in a vacuum, as can be seen by the usually terrible UX, and lack of acknowledgement of, in the FOSS space.
I don’t believe that the issue with UX is exactly what you are pointing.
Libre Culture doesn’t prevent you to subsist.
Other thing is that you are trapped inside other idea that selling a disk is the only source of money and maintaining copyright over it which is, itself, wrong as other replacements as related services or proposals to add a tax to the internet to pay artists based on their use have been promoted several times and some of these views are alive today.
This doesn’t prevent you to get your rights and the point in the issues is to look for a solution for every case more than maintaining us without rights.
