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:
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
This game was originally developed for and made 2nd place in last year’s Spooktober Visual Novel game jam!
This year’s Spooktober jam is starting in just a few days, btw 👀
(; 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… (._.)
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 🎉
Subscribed! Let’s hope that this one will last longer 😅 Thank you for all the effort you put into building this community!
That would be an option, yes! I thought about posting weekly tool/resource showcases as well. I think my approach will be to post from my mastodon account, tags and all, to additionally get the attention of the microblog-peeps and ensure that the post body doesnt get lost due to federation
!renpy@discuss.tchncs.de already has 21 subscribers after just one day🎉 I’m currently planning what kind of posts I could create for it to keep it active while the community is still forming. Once it has a few more posts, I will start promoting it in vn-developer discords as well. The people on there are still a bit unsure about the fediverse in general though.
In the long run, I’d like to create more Lemmy alternatives for existing gamedev/vndev-related subreddits that are still missing on here, but I think I’ll take it slow for now
I’ve sent a message to a mod of a community to ask for permission^^ If they give the ok i’ll make a promo post
You think so? I had the impression that those are usually targeted at players rather than devs 👉👈
I’ve been following this game’s development mastodon and have been looking forward to it for a while now! Platformers usually aren’t my thing but this one looks really cute 🥰
Yeah, the biggest problem with this approach is different moderation philosophies. You would have to set up a vetted set of approved non-problematic instances. I’ve read several accounts of people who tried out fedi and left soon after, and nothing sours the newcomer experience more than unknowingly joining an instance with a toxic community/moderators