Berin

My time has come!

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What timconspicuous said. Make sure your instance hasn't blocked bluesky as well

My perspective as someone who is mainly active in the anime/gaming fandom and gamedev space:

• Easier onboarding overall since you don't have to bother with choosing an instance and all that
• despite starting out with less features than mastodon (no gifs, they are only getting video in the next update wth), the UI is overall more user-friendly and similar to Twitter's
• Customizable feeds you can easily subscribe to in-app so you instantly have some content on your timeline (+ it's easy to be found in these feeds without having to research the specific tags to use)
• Discoverability (through features and community efforts) is so much better. As someone who mainly follows artists, the last few days my TL was full of people doing artshares via quote-repost chains or sharing "starter packs" with lists of people to follow
• I have seen exactly one artshare post on mastodon so far (the japanese side seems to have it figured out a bit better, though. I regularly see tag-based artshares going around)
• meanwhile, to achieve a similar experience on mastodon I had to manually build myself different feeds in phanpy in which I'm following ~30 tags I have painfully collected to find the posts I'm interested in
• quote-retweets don't exist yet but I kind of see the benefit now
• the stackable moderation also helps a lot

Overall, I think the main problems on Mastodon's side are difficult onboarding and lack of actual community-building efforts. Also, the community just seems to be less welcoming for creators in general imo

Here's my two cents

(; v ;) I get you, I get you so much...the Threadiverse and Fedi in general seem to lack female-oriented fandom-spaces. It really feels like we're pioneers trying to build everything from the ground up. The good thing is that, since the general purpose-fandom communities are still small as well, we have the opportunity to help shape them! (I have been trying that with the more general visual novel communities, for example).

I personally have been too shy to promote my communities outside of fedi yet... (._.)

Haven't played AI: Somnium Files yet, but for the others, definitely. As a general rule of thumb, I'd say: If people who are averse to reading wouldn't play it, it's a visual novel 😄 I am kinda aware that there has been past discourse on AA's and Dangan's classification due to the presence of gameplay like mini-games and point & click stuff etc. But 90% of the time, you are still reading stuff, it's the main thing you do.

Achievement unlocked: "The void has shouted back"!

!renpy@discuss.tchncs.de got its first thread and comments by someone who is not me \o/

!gamejams@programming.dev has been chugging along nicely as well. There have been several new threads by other users since I took over as a mod 🎉

Thank you, for not focusing on my apparently unfortunate choice of an image and reading the post. 🙏 This has serious implications for indie game marketing. The author mentioned at the end that his next blog post is going to be about alternative techniques to cross-promote. I'm very curious what he'll come up with!

While the rules regarding external links will be somewhat manageable to work with, Chris rightfully points out that indie developers will have a harder time promoting upcoming games, since they won't be able to link them on the pages of their already published games. The latter tend to receive a lot more visibility on steam and were a valuable channel to gather wishlists. Welp :/

Welp nevermind, there's a proper release now, I think you don't need to switch update channels anymore, right?^^;

Welp, I forgot that Twitter just straight up doesn't show comments to logged-out users anymore 🙃 The posts are both supposed to be threads

Hold on I'll post screenshots

Subscribed! Let's hope that this one will last longer 😅 Thank you for all the effort you put into building this community!