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Retro Gaming @ Lemmy.zip : 2 Years in Reflection (lemmy.zip)
 

Hey everyone,

Coming this November it will have been 2 years since I started this community. I started it as a trial run for lemmy having migrated from kbin way back when (fpgagaming specifically) and I'm glad to say that so far things have gone smoothly and the lemmy interface has been nice once I got used to it.

I'd like to take some time to reflect on the community and how things have progressed. I know I'm a bit early but I expect to be very busy in November so I would prefer to do this now while it's fresh on my mind.

But let me start by saying thank you to everyone who has subscribed, posted content or otherwise commented on articles here. It's been a smooth 2 years despite having no moderators beyond myself.

Moderation Requests

In note of that, however, I would like to recruit a few members to be moderators. Please let me know if you're interested. I haven't had to do any major interventions so far, but I do occasionally worry that things will crop up when I get busy with real life affairs. Power in numbers, I say, so I'd love to get more members to help out with moderation.

Lemmy so far

Lemmy has been great but there are still a few features I'd really love to have that a few other threadiverse servers have that I'd love to vocalize support for:

  • Events or Time Based Threads: There are times where events would be nice. For example, it would be really nice to highlight specific release dates for HD collections or hardware launches. More importantly, it would be wonderful to do retro game bookclub events or even community multiplayer events. Events would be wonderful for this as it would help organize the community.
  • Thread Tags: One reason I made Retro Gaming instead of FPGAGaming was to help populate the community with more threads. Since Lemmy is generally smaller, I think that broader communities generally make more sense. However, I think there's an argument to be made that tags would help members filter out articles of specific sub categories. I think this has been talked to death, but I'd like to vocalize support for this.
  • Migration: Lastly, I feel like we still lack tools for community migration. This is a known issue in the community and I know it's being worked on.

Overall, there's not a lot else to say on this. Lemmy has overall served us well.

Content

Regarding the content of Retro Gaming, I'd love to hear some feedback on the content we have so far and what people would like to see more of. I'd love people to share, for example, retro game hauls or pictures of retro gaming setups. Let me know if there's any content you'd like to see more of or if there are any requests for community events.

Lastly, I'm looking to update our community icon and background. That should happen sometime in the next two months.

Hope you all had a good weekend!

Hister: a private search engine [AIP] in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] 30 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Any interested in making this a federated search?

I've been toying with the idea of a web-ring style search engine where it uses the fediverse's post and sub system so that you can subscribe to "indexers" that are made by other users (or even mastodon users themselves) so that you can have highly targeted search engine systems. So, for example, you could make multiple search "scopes" and each of those scopes would follow specific other "sources" and search from them. Likewise, users could provide links and descriptions to add new entries to each scope which would, in essense, work like a fediverse post and then be distributed to all other interested parties.

I haven't done a lick of implementation yet, but thought I'd share the idea here as I consider doing this more and more every day. The only thing I haven't figured out yet is images, because ideally that would be a special type of scope view.

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    Moribito has good character development for its woman lead character. And while GitS is definitely a bit male-oriented as a series, I would say that the character development of Motoko is pretty good in each of the series I've seen (The movies, Stand alone complex 1 + 2) but still definitely a bit light on character development.

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