I love the original patientgamers subreddit so I was stoked to find this community. And because lemmy seems to have a more knowledgeable crowd any topic I posted here had great engagement and discussions, despite the small community. I am too busy to be a mod but maybe I can help by sparking this discussion: what would be needed to keep this sub going?
We’ve had trouble over at true gaming getting things cooking as well. Maybe I can reach out to the mods and see if there’s some cooperation to be had here as we’re likely too fragmented at present. I’ll talk to our mod team today and see if we can think of something.
Even if it makes sense to have all of them, becuase they have different-but-similar purposes or goals, maybe they can crosslink to each other in their sidebars. Some subreddits have had luck cross-promoting like that.
[email protected]. Try to use the bang syntax when linking communities rather than direct linking it like that, so that others can click it and access it from their own instance.
Also, on the user side of that, for when someone doesn’t use said syntax, note that there’s a Firefox and Chrome extension, “Instance Assistant for Lemmy & Kbin”, where one can set one’s home instance. It’ll add a button in the sidebar on remote instances where one can just click on “view in my home instance”.
[email protected]
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lemmy-instance-assistant/
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/instance-assistant-for-le/mbblbalkjcikhpladidpimlfiapdffdh
https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/instance-assistant-for-le/hnlndgeokcaocdklkbfjbfjplfnedehb
https://github.com/cynber/lemmy-instance-assistant
I know that works for Kbin users, but I’m not always 100% clear on what works for other instances, so I just go with my old habit of linking the URL. Sounds like that’s a bad habit though! Appreciate the tip
It works on both kbin and lemmy. And if it works on kbin, I assume that it works on mbin, given that that’s a fork.
No idea for piefed and sublinks.
I’m pretty sure at this point that the bang syntax has enough inertia that if a given Threadiverse server implementation doesn’t support it, it should. I don’t think that the syntax is particularly flawed. Well, other than that it doesn’t directly map to the URL’s syntax, a la the Reddit convention of “/r/foo” or the kbin convention of “/b/”, which might make it less-intuitive.
Hmm. Actually, this should be pretty easy to test, because…the magic of the Threadiverse’s guest access and federation.
Works on Kbin!
https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/964745/How-to-revitalize-this-sub#entry-comment-6217166
Works on Piefed!
https://piefed.social/post/88672#post_replies
I don’t know of an active sublinks instance, and nobody on fedia.io – the largest mbin instance – appears to presently be subscribed to [email protected].
Alright I’m probably being a dummy. Nothing happens when I do !truegaming - would love some assistance because clearly, I have less of a grasp on this platform than I thought I did. I used to know this lol
So, the syntax is:
That yields:
[email protected]
On lemmy instances, the visible text is “!” and then “[email protected]”.
On kbin instances – and I really think that this should be changed – the instance renders the visible text to be “!” and then “truegaming”.
Both still create a valid link to it if you use the syntax with the appended “@instancename”. Just on kbin, you don’t get to see what someone actually typed. You can hover the mouse over it to see the instance to which it’s linking.
Holy shit that is so bad. Like, just an inexcusably awful user experience, that cannot possibly have any effect but to cause confusion.
Perfect thank you! I bounce between Memmy app and mobile version of kbin so I get turned around a lot.