Thanks for the reply. I’ve been side-eyeing instances that have open community creation due to how easy it is for bad actors to come and start shit, especially if instance admins aren’t constantly on top of things.

As other people in this thread have pointed out, if you allow Nazis to hang out in your bar for long enough, you become a Nazi bar. Given your instance’s stated rules against bigotry, I would advocate for proactive action in cases like this. Donald Trump is a champion of racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, and xenophobia - all the things you don’t allow. I wouldn’t think you’d want a community that champions him as a dogwhistle for all of those things.

Have you considered disabling open community creation and having it be a function of your Agora discussion space?

ULTRAKILL is the most fun I’ve had with an oldschool FPS in ages. The difficulty ramps up perfectly, it’s super approachable for new players, and the skill ceiling for what you can do when you’re good is absolutely insane. The soundtrack is also fire.

Clips like this make me want to do another playthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdHVt7cTwXc

Glad to hear I’m not the only one. Something about the isometric/top-down ARPG genre has never clicked with me, and I really can’t figure out why. I’ve tried torchlight, every diablo (except 4), path of exile - I end up bouncing off of them after a week or so and just lose interest.

It makes even less sense when you consider I can sink 300+ hours into Souls/Elden Ring or Xenoblade… Just something about the format just doesn’t work for me, I guess.

I’d wager this is in response to the campaign going around to block every blue checkmark. Elon can’t let his crowd of sycophants feel like they’re being ignored.

I’ve set up https://possumpat.io/c/gundam, hopefully it’ll grow as people move over!

Nothing much in there yet, and I need to set a banner, but it exists!

I’m focusing my instance on some niche topics that I find interesting, here’s what we’ve got so far.

FFXIV → https://possumpat.io/c/ffxiv

Bugs → https://possumpat.io/c/bugmenagerie

Esports → https://possumpat.io/c/esports

Gundam → https://possumpat.io/c/gundam

Star Trek → https://possumpat.io/c/startrek

Xenoblade → https://possumpat.io/c/xenoblade

Long Furbies → https://possumpat.io/c/longfurbies

Possums! → https://possumpat.io/c/possums

And, if you help someone register, take a look at all the instances! It’s more healthy for the network if everyone isn’t siloed on the few larger ones.

The structure of the fediverse (lemmy/kbin/mastodon etc) makes it really difficult for alt-right and troll instances to find a meaningful presence.

Truth Social for example is just a mastodon instance, but everyone immediately defederated (blocked) them, so they have no reach. Hateful ideologies want a large audience on which to inflict their bullshit, and the federated model makes it really easy to cut them off.

I think so - if you search for those links on your kbin instance, I believe they should show up as magazines and you can subscribe to them the same way.

Great to know that this exists - going to throw my own computing power at it now.

I agree, the copy->search user experience for exploring the fediverse is pretty terrible. For Lemmy at least, maybe any community ! links should automatically try to resolve on your instance? I also wouldn’t mind an extra little popup on hover, letting you choose to follow the link through to the original instance or have it search/open on your home.

Subscribed! For people on the lemmy side, just searching for https://kbin.social/m/thescarydoor should have it come up.

Posted this elsewhere, but as people flood in maybe some community promotion isn’t a bad thing…

I’ve setup an instance focused on some niche topics and hobbies, there’s not much there yet but here they are if anyone wants to check them out:

FFXIV → https://possumpat.io/c/ffxiv

Bugs → https://possumpat.io/c/bugmenagerie

Esports → https://possumpat.io/c/esports

Gundam → https://possumpat.io/c/gundam

Star Trek → https://possumpat.io/c/startrek

Xenoblade → https://possumpat.io/c/xenoblade

I’ve setup an instance focused on some niche topics and hobbies, there’s not much there yet but here they are if anyone wants to check them out:

FFXIV → https://possumpat.io/c/ffxiv

Bugs → https://possumpat.io/c/bugmenagerie

Esports → https://possumpat.io/c/esports

Gundam → https://possumpat.io/c/gundam

Star Trek → https://possumpat.io/c/startrek

Xenoblade → https://possumpat.io/c/xenoblade

I’ve setup an instance focused on some niche topics and hobbies, there’s not much there yet but here they are if anyone wants!

FFXIV → https://possumpat.io/c/ffxiv

Bugs → https://possumpat.io/c/bugmenagerie

Esports → https://possumpat.io/c/esports

Gundam → https://possumpat.io/c/gundam

Star Trek → https://possumpat.io/c/startrek

As someone who just set up small instance for just a couple friends, thank you so much for all your work! It is really nice to be able to point people to a growing, well moderated community from the jump. Beehaw (and hopefully soon more instances like it) really give me hope that this whole federation thing will work and continue grow in the long term.