I miss niche communities. I enjoy games like Shadowrun, Blood on the Clocktower and video games where there’s a lot of meta discussion (e.g. Payday 2 back in the day). There are some less specific similar communities on Lemmy, but they just don’t hit the same. When I’m thinking of TTRPGs, I’m thinking gritty cyberpunk with a bucket of D6s, but the rpg communities on here are very D&D and Pathfinder focused.
I know the general response to this is “well you should start the community and generate the content”. But the issue is that, frankly, I’m not interested in that. Before Lemmy, rif was just the app I used to scroll mindlessly when I was bored at work. Lemmy is the replacement to that, even if it’s missing some of the specific content I’d want it to have.
This is whats keeping me from full-committing to Lemmy. I get most of my news from other sources, and I’m not a Linux user or IT specalist, so theres really not much content here for me. The communities on Reddit I was most involved in were mostly for specific games or niche areas within gaming like VR, or for acedemic topics and discussions like history. Here on Lemmy, theres is effectively none of that aside from some history memes largely reposted from Reddit by a few very dedicated users (although thank you to those users). Even really large games like Dota, and CS, both of which lend themselves well to sharing content, discussion, and general lifestyle adoption of the game have nothing here on Lemmy, nonetheless single-player games like Half-Life.
I miss niche communities. I enjoy games like Shadowrun, Blood on the Clocktower and video games where there’s a lot of meta discussion (e.g. Payday 2 back in the day). There are some less specific similar communities on Lemmy, but they just don’t hit the same. When I’m thinking of TTRPGs, I’m thinking gritty cyberpunk with a bucket of D6s, but the rpg communities on here are very D&D and Pathfinder focused.
I know the general response to this is “well you should start the community and generate the content”. But the issue is that, frankly, I’m not interested in that. Before Lemmy, rif was just the app I used to scroll mindlessly when I was bored at work. Lemmy is the replacement to that, even if it’s missing some of the specific content I’d want it to have.
This is whats keeping me from full-committing to Lemmy. I get most of my news from other sources, and I’m not a Linux user or IT specalist, so theres really not much content here for me. The communities on Reddit I was most involved in were mostly for specific games or niche areas within gaming like VR, or for acedemic topics and discussions like history. Here on Lemmy, theres is effectively none of that aside from some history memes largely reposted from Reddit by a few very dedicated users (although thank you to those users). Even really large games like Dota, and CS, both of which lend themselves well to sharing content, discussion, and general lifestyle adoption of the game have nothing here on Lemmy, nonetheless single-player games like Half-Life.