Not saying this resentfully, honestly curious. What need does reposting my post as a comment with the instance names that I had in parentheses removed fulfill, what benefit is gained? I put the instance names there for communities that have the same name or close to it, and/or cover the same thing, so that you can tell the various same-name links apart. If it does something useful, I'll be happy to repost this when no more links are submitted with the instance names taken off. Is this kind of like what some people used to do on Reddit, reposting the post as a comment because otherwise mobile users would be unable to copy/paste the content?

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Different people will be different, I find big gaming news interesting to talk about and don't want to see games from genres I have no interest in. I definitely see your point about active communities and how a more general community might bringing up stuff that you don't like enough to follow but do like enough to have a casual conversation about it!

A lot of those links will not work, because they have the order of the instance and community name swapped. It's !communityName@instanceName, not !instanceName@communityName. If you want what I've got so far in a more horizontal format like what you posted, here you go. I will not be updating this format, except maybe at the end after everyone's stopped submitting communities.

Game Design/Development

!destroymygame !gamedesign !gamedev (kbin.social) !gamedev (lemmy.blahaj.zone) !gamedev (lemmy.ml) !gamedev (programming.dev) !godot !haxe !inat (I Need A Team) !pico8 !playmygame !roguelikedev !unity !unrealengine !voxeldev

Games

!2007scape (lemmy.ml) !2007scape (lemmy.world) !anothereden !arknights !baldursgate3 !battlebit !battlebitremastered !celeste !crusaderkings !cs !cyberpunk2077 !darksouls !dayz (kbin.social) !dayz (lemmy.world) !deadspace !undertaledeltarune (lemmy.world) !deltarune (lemmy.fmhy.ml) !destiny !diablo !doom !dota2 !drg !dwarffortress !factorio !fireemblem !ffxiv !genshinimpact !genshinimpactleaks !geometrydash !girlsfrontline !guildwars2 (kbin.social) !guildwars2 (lemmy.wtf) !guiltygear !hellletloose !leagueoflegends (kbin.social) !league (lemmy.ml) !leagueoflegends (lemmy.world) !legendofzelda !lemmings !lolesports !lolfanart !masseffect !minecraft (kbin.social) !minecraft (lemmy.ml) !minecraft (lemmy.world) !moddedminecraft !mountandblade !neverwinternights !nomanssky !osu !overwatch2 !pokemedia !pokemon (kbin.social) !pokemon (lemmy.ml) !pokemongo !rocketleague (lemmy.ca) !rocketleague (lemmy.world) !satisfactory !thesinkingcity !skyrimmods !splatoon (kbin.social) !splatoon (lemmy.world) !starcitizen (citizensgaming.com) !starcitizen (kbin.social) !starcitizen (lemmy.ml) !starfield !startrekonline !templeofelementalevil !tf2 !thesims !titanfall !totk !touhou !trackmania !warframe !witchfire !wow !xcom !xenoblade

Genres

!arpg !automationgames !cozygames !incrementalgames !interactivefiction !jrpgs (kbin.social) !jrpg (lemmy.zip) !lifesimulation !otomegames !strategygames !visualnovels

Miscellaneous

!currentlyplaying !freegames !gamedeals !gamingcirclejerk !girlgames !gog !gyrogaming !oldgames4oldgamers !paradoxgames !patientgamers (kbin.social) !patientgamers (sh.itjust.works) !photomode !retrogaming (kbin.social) !retrogaming (lemmy.world) !steam !truegaming

Platforms

!3ds !amiga (kbin.social) !amiga (lemmy.sdf.org) !amiga (lemmy.world) !amiga (sopuli.xyz) !atari !c64 (lemmy.world) !c64 (sh.itjust.works) !commodore64 (kbin.social) !commodore64 (lemmy.world) !commodore64 (lemmy.ca) !dosgaming !fpgagaming !iosgaming !leagueoflinux !linuxgaming (kbin.social) !linuxgaming (linux.ml) !linuxgaming (lemmy.world) !nintendo !nintendoswitch !switch !pcgaming !plus4 !sbcgaming !steamdeck (kbin.social) !steamdeck (sopuli.xyz) !xbox (kbin.social) !xbox (lemmy.world) !zxspectrum (kbin.social) !zxspectrum (lemmy.world)

Added Dead Space and The Sinking City. Not adding Mad Max for the same reason I would refuse to add a generic Star Wars community but would allow a Knights of the Old Republic community: it's not overwhelmingly likely to be majority-gaming posts. If there was a community for just the Mad Max game, I'd be happy to add it.

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I think there's a good use for the individual communities. If everyone posted stuff about their games in a generic game community I think it would turn a lot of people off. I wouldn't want to see a constant influx of posts where I actually like only 1/8 of the games being talked about and don't understand or like the other 7/8. The general gaming communities tend to stick to big gaming news or topics most gamers might have some input on. You probably don't want a community that started out with conversations you can join in on to be overrun with my favorite niche game in a genre you hate with an artstyle you hate, but that also happens to have a super active Threadiverse community. I completely get what you're saying, the Threadiverse is pretty small and a lot of specific magazines just don't get content at a decent rate, but I appreciate that we have separate communities.

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Typing in !community@instance and submitting the comment makes it look like !community for me. I typed in !community@instance here: !community

Typing in @community@instance and submitting the comment makes it look like @community for me. I typed in @community@instance here: @community

I see you're on kbin.social, and I'm from kbin.cafe, so we should probably be seeing the same things. Not sure what's happening here.

Added. By the way, the way to make that a clickable link is !battlebitremastered@lemm.ee, just like what the sidebar of your home instance says. In general, follow the pattern !communityName@instanceName.

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Added. By the way, the way to make that a clickable link is @OldGames4OldGamers@kbin.social. In general, follow the pattern @magazineName@instanceName.

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This is rather frustrating for me. I was corrected on a different post when I used @community@instance and told to use !community@instance. Now I'm being told I got it wrong again. Not angry at you, just angry that I got it wrong twice.

I was told to use !community@instance because it would leave people able to browse and subscribe to the community through their own instance instead of being kicked to a different URL (e.g. !community@instance lets you browse and subscribe from @instance, while @magazine kicks you to the instance.com website), so that's what I'm using here. I am currently under the impression that viewing from your own instance also means you won't see any content unless someone on your instance has subscribed to that community before, as an intentional part of how the Fediverse works; while going to the instance.com website directly will show you everything. That's probably why my links send kbin users to a search result: because on kbin, from the search result you can click and look at the instance or subscribe without ever leaving your own instance.

When you say the correct way to link a magazine is @community@instance for kbin, do you mean I should do it that way for links that point to a kbin instance, or is that how I have to format links to any instance at all (whether lemmy or kbin or even something else like Mastodon) for it to work properly for kbin users? Or is this just about wishing that I sent you to the instance's website with all the content instead of somewhere you can view through your own instance? If it's the latter, I'm really not sure what the etiquette is for what I'm supposed to send you to: your own instance or the source instance, seeing as I am getting corrected about this here to use @community@instance for you but was previously told to use !community@instance.

Once people stop commenting with new communities I can comment the list with links formatted as @community@instance.

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