I mean, I like Katawa Shoujo as well, but there’s no need to be that condescending towards other games😅

Yeah, the biggest problem with this approach is different moderation philosophies. You would have to set up a vetted set of approved non-problematic instances. I’ve read several accounts of people who tried out fedi and left soon after, and nothing sours the newcomer experience more than unknowingly joining an instance with a toxic community/moderators

My time has come!

!otomegames@ani.social

!anime@ani.social

!visualnovels@ani.social

!baldurs_gate_3@lemmy.world

!ffxiv@possumpat.io

!finalfantasyxiv@lemmy.world

What timconspicuous said. Make sure your instance hasn’t blocked bluesky as well

My perspective as someone who is mainly active in the anime/gaming fandom and gamedev space:

• Easier onboarding overall since you don’t have to bother with choosing an instance and all that
• despite starting out with less features than mastodon (no gifs, they are only getting video in the next update wth), the UI is overall more user-friendly and similar to Twitter’s
• Customizable feeds you can easily subscribe to in-app so you instantly have some content on your timeline (+ it’s easy to be found in these feeds without having to research the specific tags to use)
• Discoverability (through features and community efforts) is so much better. As someone who mainly follows artists, the last few days my TL was full of people doing artshares via quote-repost chains or sharing “starter packs” with lists of people to follow
• I have seen exactly one artshare post on mastodon so far (the japanese side seems to have it figured out a bit better, though. I regularly see tag-based artshares going around)
• meanwhile, to achieve a similar experience on mastodon I had to manually build myself different feeds in phanpy in which I’m following ~30 tags I have painfully collected to find the posts I’m interested in
• quote-retweets don’t exist yet but I kind of see the benefit now
• the stackable moderation also helps a lot

Overall, I think the main problems on Mastodon’s side are difficult onboarding and lack of actual community-building efforts. Also, the community just seems to be less welcoming for creators in general imo

(; v ;) I get you, I get you so much…the Threadiverse and Fedi in general seem to lack female-oriented fandom-spaces. It really feels like we’re pioneers trying to build everything from the ground up. The good thing is that, since the general purpose-fandom communities are still small as well, we have the opportunity to help shape them! (I have been trying that with the more general visual novel communities, for example).

I personally have been too shy to promote my communities outside of fedi yet… (._.)

Achievement unlocked: “The void has shouted back”!

!renpy@discuss.tchncs.de got its first thread and comments by someone who is not me \o/

!gamejams@programming.dev has been chugging along nicely as well. There have been several new threads by other users since I took over as a mod 🎉

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Subscribed! Let’s hope that this one will last longer 😅 Thank you for all the effort you put into building this community!

she’s adorable!

There’s a website

That would be an option, yes! I thought about posting weekly tool/resource showcases as well. I think my approach will be to post from my mastodon account, tags and all, to additionally get the attention of the microblog-peeps and ensure that the post body doesnt get lost due to federation

!renpy@discuss.tchncs.de already has 21 subscribers after just one day🎉 I’m currently planning what kind of posts I could create for it to keep it active while the community is still forming. Once it has a few more posts, I will start promoting it in vn-developer discords as well. The people on there are still a bit unsure about the fediverse in general though.

In the long run, I’d like to create more Lemmy alternatives for existing gamedev/vndev-related subreddits that are still missing on here, but I think I’ll take it slow for now

I’ve sent a message to a mod of a community to ask for permission^^ If they give the ok i’ll make a promo post

You think so? I had the impression that those are usually targeted at players rather than devs 👉👈