Either my searching is wrong, or there’s a weird sub name out there….but I find it perplexing that us nerds haven’t made a big gaming sub yet?

I’ve seen a lemmy world one, a pcgaming on kbin, a beehaw one that’s mostly dead….but no big boi general one?

I’ve blocked 3 fuck cars communities just this evening but I nary see any gaming posts in my ALL - active/hot.

Weird. Someone point me in the right direction please 😅

    • Stovetop@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      Beehaw had concerns about lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works because they had open registrations, rather than requiring an application process like they and some other instances do.

      The idea is that users being able to join these instances freely meant they couldn’t be properly “vetted” to weed out the trolls/racists/harassers/etc., and they didn’t believe they had the infrastructure/moderation capability to properly monitor the scale of this new audience themselves.

      Part of me gets it, but in hindsight it does seem like the concerns were a bit overblown (at least compared to actual bad instances like exploding heads) and I’m surprised they haven’t refederated by now. Beehaw staying defederated from two other major instances is proof that it actually does matter which Lemmy instance you register for, making it harder for new users to figure out which one they should join.

      • NotAGuyInAHat@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Makes sense. Kinda sucks though because the gaming sub being terrible on the other place made the circlejerk and “games” discussion communities more fun. Talking shit about the hive mind in your own personal echo chamber can be fun if you’re self aware!

      • iorale@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
        31·
        1 year ago

        Not sure now, but at the time they had 4 moderators for the whole instance, this while the big Reddit migration was happening so it was a bomb waiting to blowup, also they’ve stated before that they want/plan to make it a safespace so they are not exactly made for federation since they’ll have to end up blocking a lot of instances to achieve that.

        • Stovetop@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          It’s just a shame that they are overly selective about who they allow to join. When I was looking for a new home after Rexxit, the first place I applied to was Beehaw after seeing it spoken so highly of. I thought I wrote a pretty good application, but they never let me in.