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 !Silksong@indie-ver.se

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!

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  • Dremor@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Welcome on this side of the web. I hope you’ll find it cozy, and full of new encounters.

    I’ll add your sub to the sidebar asap.

    • Batmorous@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      facts also OP please get other indie game studio people to bring their communities in too. Growing Indie Game studios presence would help grow this place in near and long term for Lemmy/Piefed

      • rieux@indie-ver.seEnglish
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        4 months ago

        It’s quite hard to do that as a lot of communities aren’t willing to put in the time of setting up a community on the fediverse. We tried to get a lot of indie game subreddits on board but so far it’s just silksong and balatro. Unless a bigger group of people on reddit ask for it then not much can happen

  • _ed@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    4 months ago

    This is what I love to see niche instances that specialise in an area rather than trying to be another generalist / reddit. At this stage you’ll prob need to fight discoverability issues. Cheering for ya.

    • ssnoer@indie-ver.seOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Posting on r/Silksong helps a lot. We’ve been in contact with many moderators all across Reddit, trying to get them to join us, but that is still developing.

  • Pika@rekabu.ruEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Extending a warm welcome to you!

    We need folks like you in here, and I believe you’ll find great support. Good luck!

    Also, don’t forget to populate the community with a post or two to start things rolling!

    • ssnoer@indie-ver.seOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Pika

      I think the community already has had a great start. Thank you for your support!

      • Pika@rekabu.ruEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Oh, I see now! Didn’t load properly for me the first time, shown an empty community. Good job! :)

  • beSyl@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I mean… You guys should really start caring about domain names… That domain name is both hard to type and hard to spell… Domain names are important people.

    Since it is still in its infancy, I would suggest buying a proper name. Might seem harsh, but ya.

    • a14o@feddit.orgEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I disagree, it’s a fitting name, and I don’t have to type it unless I want to link to it.

      • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Plus, I mean, unless you’re using a Threadiverse host as your home instance, how often are you typing its name?

        Having a hyphen is RFC-conformant:

        RFC 952:

        1. A "name" (Net, Host, Gateway, or Domain name) is a text string up
to 24 characters drawn from the alphabet (A-Z), digits (0-9), minus
sign (-), and period (.).  Note that periods are only allowed when
they serve to delimit components of "domain style names". (See
RFC-921, "Domain Name System Implementation Schedule", for
background).  No blank or space characters are permitted as part of a
name. No distinction is made between upper and lower case.  The first
character must be an alpha character.  The last character must not be
a minus sign or period.  A host which serves as a GATEWAY should have
"-GATEWAY" or "-GW" as part of its name.  Hosts which do not serve as
Internet gateways should not use "-GATEWAY" and "-GW" as part of
their names. A host which is a TAC should have "-TAC" as the last
part of its host name, if it is a DoD host.  Single character names
or nicknames are not allowed.

        RFC 1123:

           The syntax of a legal Internet host name was specified in RFC-952
   [DNS:4].  One aspect of host name syntax is hereby changed: the
   restriction on the first character is relaxed to allow either a
   letter or a digit.  Host software MUST support this more liberal
   syntax.

   Host software MUST handle host names of up to 63 characters and
   SHOULD handle host names of up to 255 characters.
    • datavoid@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Off topic but when I first joined Lemmy I was on booty.world, I still can’t believe that instance shut down!

    • ssnoer@indie-ver.seOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Changing the domain of a lemmy instance is quite hard. (Already did it once during testing). And I don’t think indie-ver.se is that hard to spell. Anyways, I am not asking the 100+ users who subscribed to change it, but I do see your point.

      • beSyl@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Ya, I know. But a few months/years, it is going to be even harder.

        indieTalk.TLD indieBoard.TLD indieForum.TLD indieIndie.TLD indieGaming.TLD indieLemmy.TLD Indielem.TLD indieVerse.TLD indieUniverse.TLD indieMingle.TLD indieNow.TLD indieSocial.TLD indieFriends.TLD indieBros.TLD indieBig.TLD

        Just some ideas. If you decide to keep the domain name, I wish you the best. Regardless, welcome to Lemmy brother! The more the merrier.

    • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I mean, I agree with you in principle - domain names can matter. I remember people were similarly concerned about lemmy.zip back when it launched since .zip links on the internet can be… not so great.

      In this case though I don’t see it, I think indie-ver.se is a great name and super fitting.

    • howrar@lemmy.caEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Might be a Boost bug, but the link doesn’t include anything past the hyphen.

      • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Similarly, Jerboa tries to make @indie-ver.se in the post body into a link to a user profile and also stops at the hyphen.

      • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        It’s not a bug, it’s an unimplemented feature. The !community@instance syntax is not part of any Markdown flavour, so every client has to implement it independently, and it’s possible that it collides with some other kind of token (e.g. with the @user tag).

        • Agent_Karyo@piefed.worldEnglish
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          4 months ago

          I didn’t know that this was de facto a client side feature (Lemmy WebUI, Piefed WebUI and my mobile client, Voyager, all support it).

          That said, I strongly prefer Piefed style link re-direction; albeit it’s a client side feature just like the relative markdown syntax.

      • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Must be an app bug, but a very unfortunate one as multiple apps seem to be affected. Link works fine for me in Summit, though.

        • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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          4 months ago

          I imagine so. I don’t use Boost, but I posted about the behavior to the Boost community, so hopefully they’ll get it straightened out.