List more in the comments! I’ll add them if they are a community for a video game genre, and have had at least one post in the last month. Crossposted to [email protected]here.
I also found some genres with dead communities. Maybe someone would like to revive one, or make a new one (preferably on a smaller instance than lemmy.world)?
[email protected] (yes, !adventuregames has some, whether puzzles actually belong with adventure games is another conversation. I don’t think so but I’m not an expert on either genre)
Communities for Talos Principle and Resident Evil, but again, they aren’t active.
Yeah, there are a bunch of communities for individual video games, but they’re all pretty dead. I think that [email protected], where the dev actually shows up, posts, and moderates is probably one of the most alive.
This came up when I originally got on the Threadiverse — I remember suggesting that people post in generic gaming communities, then when the load became too high, move to genre-specific, and then when the load became too high, move to game-specific. Otherwise, the userbase in any one community just isn’t large enough to get much community activity.
I agree. In the days immediately following the APIcalypse, people attempted to move all their favourite niche communities to Lemmy, but the site’s active userbase isn’t there yet for that kind of content - much to my displeasure: I was only active in two/three niche communities back when I was a Reddit user, but they are pretty much nonexistent here, so I’m forced to include more generic communities in my Lemmy feed to keep it from drying up.
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https://sffa.community/c/sffgaming?dataType=Post&page=0
Sffagaming is for sci-fi games, but I haven’t seen a post in there in a while.
https://lemm.ee/c/the_talos_principle?dataType=Post&page=0
https://lemmy.world/c/residentevil?dataType=Post&page=0
Communities for Talos Principle and Resident Evil, but again, they aren’t active.
https://lemm.ee/c/gamemusic?dataType=Post&page=0
Community for sharing game music. Not very active, but I see posts in my feed every now and then.
https://retrolemmy.com/c/TipOfMyJoystick?dataType=Post&page=0
Fairly new community to help people looking for a specific name they forgot the name of.
Sorry for not sharing the generic link, I’m on mobile and that’s the link my app generates when I click on “share”.
Another adjacent community that is seeing no real activity: [email protected]
I can’t DNS-resolve sffa.community, either on IPv4 or IPv6. Google’s DNS root can’t see it either:
It clearly existed at one point, because lemmy.world has local copies of some stuff from a year back:
https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]?dataType=Post&sort=New
But I think that the instance is gone now.
EDIT: The last time archive.org’s Wayback Machine was able to successfully index it was September 16, 2024:
https://web.archive.org/web/20240916061246/https://sffa.community/
Oh, that’s sad. No point in staying subscribed, then.
On that note, [email protected] for video game artwork.
Yeah, there are a bunch of communities for individual video games, but they’re all pretty dead. I think that [email protected], where the dev actually shows up, posts, and moderates is probably one of the most alive.
This came up when I originally got on the Threadiverse — I remember suggesting that people post in generic gaming communities, then when the load became too high, move to genre-specific, and then when the load became too high, move to game-specific. Otherwise, the userbase in any one community just isn’t large enough to get much community activity.
Oh, and @[email protected] has kept a flow of material to [email protected], for one other game-specific community that has some activity.
PugJesus and The_Picard_Maneuver are single-handedly keeping half of Lemmy afloat.
I agree. In the days immediately following the APIcalypse, people attempted to move all their favourite niche communities to Lemmy, but the site’s active userbase isn’t there yet for that kind of content - much to my displeasure: I was only active in two/three niche communities back when I was a Reddit user, but they are pretty much nonexistent here, so I’m forced to include more generic communities in my Lemmy feed to keep it from drying up.