Nice little starter list for the techy folks, although I'd question the inclusion of a beehaw community since so many newbies are going to be unable to access that one and might get confused. Maybe a disclaimer or something, if you don't want to use a more available gaming community?
this post was submitted on 15 Nov 2023
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OP's account is only 3 days old, they might not know that beehaw is defederated from a lot of instances.
Good catch! In that case, also welcome OP ๐
I appologise for the beehaw community, it did act a little weird as I was trying to link to it. Can someone explain why it wouldn't work like others, as i'm working on replacing it with another one.
Basically what happened is Beehaw decided they'd rather be their own thing and defederated (essentially cut themselves off from) some of the biggest instances, including lemmy.world where your account is. So a very significant chunk of Lemmy users can't see activity from Beehaw users, and vice versa.
What makes it confusing is that if you visit one of their communities from a defederated instance, there's no real indication that you're blocked. So it's just an unnecessary layer of complexity for newbies, was my worry.
That said there are active gaming communities everywhere, search on https://lemmyverse.net/communities for "games" or "gaming" and there are plenty of results. I'm partial to !games@sh.itjust.works personally!
That explains why that when I searched for it from Lemmy.world it still showed up. There does need to be indication if an instance is limited it shouldn't be up to users to just simply know, not everyone keeps up with the fediverse news or knows what the best news sources are yet for fediverse regarding things like this. A simple indication of pottential limitations of instance would solve this best.
I've edited the post earlier with a different community for gaming.
Yeah it's not ideal at all, one of many MANY improvements on the todo list I'm sure ๐
Another older, so maybe not up to date, list here: https://lemmy.world/post/2216085 if you need more inspiration for communities to add.