submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by to c/newcommunities@lemmy.world
 

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

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[–] 35 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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.

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 32 points 8 months ago* (5 children)

    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

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I think it's my front-end which made the links into links with []() markdown syntax as well. I'm gonna fix that. Thanks!

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    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 😄

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Considering hytale is basically an indie game rn will there be a community for it there?

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Indie-ver.se is a great domain name

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Hyphen seems to have broken the link, at least for me.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    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.)

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    [–] 2 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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