Multi comms are a good idea, agreed.

As for weak discoverability encouraging tendency to gather on larger comms…I agree, but I would just add that it does require motivated and proactive users. This isn't a given. In my hypothetical, those people started their own communities about something they like, and had a few users but not many. Do they at some point decide to give up and search for another community? Or do they just forget about it because there's never any activity and they don't go there? How many searches should they do without finding anything?

As a real life example of my own, I'm a Green Bay Packers fan. I wanted to find a place to take part in active discussions about the team. I joined what seemed to be the biggest community and posted a few things, commented in threads. Most would get one or maybe two replies. Often nothing. A month or two later I searched again and found a few more communities that had popped up. All around the same size and activity level. Joined them, also crickets. The members there didn't congregate around a larger instance, they created more small instances and then all of them ended up largely abandoned.

I don't know exactly why that is, but I've had this experience with other topics too. Maybe instance tagging with a recommendation algorithm that suggests similar communities in the fediverse based on the community you're in?

The problem really is that lemmy doesn't have the critical mass of users to support many small communities that are all self sustaining. And discoverability is so bad for communities it's entirely likely that if there are 8 people out there that want to discuss X in the fediverse, 3 are in one community, 2 in another, and 3 in a third, and none of them ever finds the others. The lack of users causes a lack of content and they all the up not engaging at all.

If you have enough users the idea of multiple communities holds water a little better. But I think it's a significant barrier to actually gaining those users.

Came here to say this one. It’s been ~30 years and there still isn’t another game that quite hits in the same way. The perfect combination of jrpg, weirdness, emotion, humor, horror/dread, and lightheartedness. Earthbound has it all.

Huh. I always heard 3 copies, 2 locations, 1 of the locations offsite. Yours makes sense though.

I agree. Unfortunately I agreed last year already. Wish MLF had seen it then also. He was pretty critical in the post game presser.

Fun game to watch.

As a Packers fan, it is very damning to me that we have an offense with a first year starting QB and a bunch of late round draft picks and UDFAs, and they still outperform our defense full of first round picks.

24 isn’t an automatic win, but the way the Packers have been constructed, they are tooled to have a defense that expects very little from the offense. Especially an offense missing multiple key members. 24 points should be plenty for this offense, and it really should have been plenty to win in this specific game.

The two missed picks were brutal but just human error. They were in the right place. More concerning are the complete inability to tackle, the lack of edge contain, the constant playing 10 yards off receivers in short yardage situations. These are coaching and scheme issues and a team that knows it is in a find out year on offense needs better from its talent-loaded defense.

Yes the offense sputtered in the 4th. Yes the final drive was garbage. But like, that’s almost expected. It would be great for the offense to play a full game, but 3/4 is more than what I’d have thought we’d get. Meanwhile the defense played a full bad game.

Lots to work on, but I’m worried (as I was last year) that Joe Barry just ain’t it.

One thing I don’t like about the approach of blocking things is that the frontpage of reddit still allowed some level of discovery. If something in a niche community got hot enough it would break into my feed even though I didn’t subscribe to that community. It was a cool way to expand my content on an occasional basis.

If I’m going to only view my subscribed list on lemmy then I have to also manually go out and intentionally discover new communities. That’s hard, because some of my favorite small reddit communities were ones I never would have thought to search for.

You know what I mean.

Two different games, two different genres. Both critically acclaimed, not available on the same platforms. In fact one isn’t even available for PC, so why are you posting this comment here?

Lemmy needs both content generators and content consumers. Not everyone needs to do both if that isn’t what motivates them to come to the site.

I don’t really love comparing to reddit because what reddit became isn’t what I hope for lemmy, but to make the point… What percentage of people do you think made content on reddit? I’d guess it was a fraction of a single percent.

Yeah I very much agree.

Reddit was and is impossibly easy to use. You visit the site and start scrolling. If and when you decide you want to participate you create and account and start doing so.

The barrier to entry on Lemmy is much higher. This will keep out many of the types of low effort users that would eventually turn this into reddit.

Maybe someday the fediverse will be as obvious to everyone as any other part of the internet but it’s definitely not right now and it will be awhile before it is.

I feel like part of what caused it to explode is that some celebrities joined up early and it provided a tangible way for fans to interact directly with them. This was totally novel and completely unprecedented. Prior to Twitter you could watch Entertainment Tonight and read People magazine. Twitter let you directly contact celebrities.

I really couldn’t care less about celebrities, which I have always thought is part of why Twitter has always felt kind of pointless to me.

But I fully recognize that for some people that’s a huge draw and I do think it’s a big part of what makes Twitter popular.