still dunno what to do with block game's community aspects 😔 i'd like to have a forum but i don't have the energy to set up and maintain one, especially when it's so much easier to create a discord server

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@eniko I mean, if you have to depend on an external service anyway, why not a community on lemmy or similar federated forum/aggregator?

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@oblomov i havent heard great things about lemmy even from people on fedi

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@eniko yeah, for lemmy specifically devs are quite on the tankie side, and that's on a good day, and there's a small crowd of Reddit defectors that brought their toxic mentality over in some servers, so usual caveats apply, but there's other software with similar functionality that AFAIK is less problematic in the community/social sense (mbin, piefed). No idea how good the moderation tools are on them though.

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@eniko oh and IIRC NodeBB also implemented AP federation recently?

[radgryd@mstdn.games]

@oblomov @eniko I was also thinking piefed instead of Lemmy.

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Radgryd @oblomov I thought pixelfed was more of an instagramlike?

[radgryd@mstdn.games]

@eniko @oblomov piefed, not pixelfed! https://join.piefed.social/

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@Radgryd @eniko yeah, I must say that the naming of these things is a bit unfortunate

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

nobody's really had a good answer for this so, i guess the answer is "make a discord server"

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@eniko discord is really horrible as a forum though. Not even web-searchable 8-/

Self-hosting anything is completely out, isn't it?

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@oblomov yeah self hosting is out. i just don't have the time/energy

[kitsunevixi@sakurajima.social]

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place @oblomov@sociale.network Have you asked if anyone would be willing to volunteer to help run a forum?