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!
also r/Balatro joined at !Balatro@indie-ver.se
26 Comments
otter@lemmy.ca · 35 pts · 228d
When your team has a moment, I would recommend setting up your instance on https://lemmy-federate.com/instances
This will automatically add your future communities onto other people's instances so that users can immediately start using them. It helps a lot with community discovery. You can also send out the existing communities after the instance is registered.
I'm not by a computer right now, but I can send over our settings choices if you have any issues.
ssnoer@indie-ver.se · 8 pts · 227d
Well, I am having trouble even registering indie-ver.se on the website. It says I am not guaranteed on fediseer, but the instance has been guaranteed by feddit.uk and endorsed by a few other instances. I've made an issue on the lemmy-federate GitHub and DM'ed the creator on Lemmy. Hopefully the issue can be quickly resolved.
otter@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 227d
Right yes, when we set up piefed.ca we also had to wait a day or so before we could sign in on lemmy-federate. There may be a short waiting period for the information to refresh. Hopefully it works out :)
ssnoer@indie-ver.se · 8 pts · 227d
Oh, thanks. I will be patient then.
otter@lemmy.ca · 32 pts · 228d
That's amazing, welcome! I look forward to these communities growing.
The first link was broken for me, here are the 4 communities so far with clickable links for anyone else that wanted it:
https://indie-ver.se/communities
!Balatro@indie-ver.se
!Silksong@indie-ver.se
!Cuphead@indie-ver.se
!Indieverse@indie-ver.se (meta)
squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi · 6 pts · 227d
That markdown doesn't work well for community links. Sadly the Voyager app does wrap community links in markdown too, which deactivates the cross-instance-linking that was supposed to be achieved with this link format.
Writing them in plain text, without markdown, works best in my experience:
ssnoer@indie-ver.se · 5 pts · 228d
I think it's my front-end which made the links into links with
[]()markdown syntax as well. I'm gonna fix that. Thanks!otter@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 228d
Thank you!
I'm also trying to help some of the new users on the linked posts but I'm running into Reddit's Karma requirements. I don't mind passing along the comments for a mod or someone else to post instead 😄
ssnoer@indie-ver.se · 3 pts · 227d
I had seen this a bit early, I could've approved you, so that you could skip over the requirements. Thanks for the help anyways!
otter@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 227d
No problem! Thank you for approving those :)
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 227d
Considering hytale is basically an indie game rn will there be a community for it there?
ssnoer@indie-ver.se · 7 pts · 227d
You are free to create the community yourself!
Fizz@lemmy.nz · 6 pts · 227d
Indie-ver.se is a great domain name
ssnoer@indie-ver.se · 9 pts · 227d
Thank you! I think it's a bit more fun than some other Lemmy domains.
Impronoucabl@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 228d
Hyphen seems to have broken the link, at least for me.
ssnoer@indie-ver.se · 8 pts · 228d
That happens on some frontends, like Boost. Works fine on the website!
Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 228d
As a Boost user, can confirm
Sunsofold@lemmings.world · 4 pts · 227d
Not my favorite indie game but glad to have a place for them on the verse.
Bompanada! (Am I doing that right? I don't actually speak your language.)
ssnoer@indie-ver.se · 4 pts · 227d
SHAW!
Blaze@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 227d
Welcome!
SmolSteely@lemmynsfw.com · 2 pts · 228d
Why set up a Lemmy instance instead of creating a community on an existing instance?
Now you have to worry about hosting costs, domain renewal etc.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club · 10 pts · 228d
Because they like the fediverse and want to help it grow. Or maybe they didn't want to have to deal with admins ever again.
SmolSteely@lemmynsfw.com · 2 pts · 227d
If they really have the commitment to run that instance for years, and to organise a proper successor one day when they don't want to do it any more - that would be growing the Fediverse. But if they abandon it after x years, they would be harming it.
ssnoer@indie-ver.se · 6 pts · 227d
I've tried to document the infrastructure around it, and made everything super organized, so that it's both easier to maintain and hand over in case that's ever needed.
ssnoer@indie-ver.se · 6 pts · 227d
Oh wait, IT COSTS MONEY?!? Oh noo... Anyway, I wanted the help smaller indie game communities get shown, so they won't have to be spread across 20 different generic instances.
baatliwala@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 228d
Bit weird if they already didn't take into consideration the costs of running a server