Patient Gamers

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A gaming community free from the hype and oversaturation of current releases, catering to gamers who wait at least 12 months after release to play a game. Whether it's price, waiting for bugs/issues to be patched, DLC to be released, don't meet the system requirements, or just haven't had the time to keep up with the latest releases.

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How to revitalize this sub? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I love the original patientgamers subreddit so I was stoked to find this community. And because lemmy seems to have a more knowledgeable crowd any topic I posted here had great engagement and discussions, despite the small community. I am too busy to be a mod but maybe I can help by sparking this discussion: what would be needed to keep this sub going?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The biggest weakness of Lemmy IMO is how fractured communities can become due to very similar subs on different instances

Agreed, and also why I think Lemmy will never progress past a niche audience despite being capable of doing so. It'd be nice if there was a feature that allowed instances to merge all like-named communities into a singular one. I know cross posting was meant to help address the problem, but that's a manual process that falls quite short in resolving the core issue.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In regard to Reddit having the same problem, I agree it does to an extent. But like you said, it only allows for synonyms or alternate wording for the same topic in a subreddit's name. On Lemmy, since instances are different, the fractured communities can be named the exact same thing. Most casual users are not going to realize this and think that the one community they're in is not active when on another instance, the other like-named community might have grown and is now quite active since they initially setup their subscriptions. They'll never know unless they happen to run another search and see the alternate community's user count.

Maybe I'm wrong and it isn't a big deal. But I do agree that searching and indexing would be a great step in helping discoverability.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It'd be nice if there was a feature that allowed instances to merge all like-named communities into a singular one.

Who would decide how it's run? Different communities with the same name may have different rules or content in mind.