QuintenJun 30, 2023

Memes on this community

https://lemmy.world/post/853166

Memes on c/Games - Lemmy.world

Hey all! Since Lemmy is a new platform with new communities. We as the c/Games community have to decide what we want to be. The last days I saw several posts with (low) effort memes. Some seem to enjoy it, some report it because they want a more serious discussion on here. Therefore, I would like to ask you for your opinion: What should happen to memes on this community? Please take a moment to fill in the poll. It will close in Monday. https://strawpoll.com/jVyG8VzOGn7 [https://strawpoll.com/jVyG8VzOGn7] Also feel free to discuss it in the comments!

Show threadParia_StarkJun 30, 2023

My dream would be to find the slightly pedantic discussio a and review threads of /r/games, and leave memes for other communities.

But I don't think we'll be enough people to do so, merging might be the way to go.

Show threadBrawler Yukon

But I don’t think we’ll be enough people to do so

We aren't until we are.

No community springs forth fully-formed. Lemmy's already had one big influx of users after the reddit blackout, and we can expect there to be another wave (to some extent or another) tomorrow after the major apps shut down. Some of those users will certainly have been subscribed to /r/games and not /r/gaming, and are going to want an equivalent community here.

The only way to foster that and let it grow is to enforce the requisite rules that keep the community from turning into a cesspool right at the start. Maybe it'll slow overall growth, but it won't kill it altogether. If that means that /c/Games here doesn't end up as the pre-eminent Lemmy community for games, well, so be it. /r/games was significantly smaller than /r/gaming, but it still thrived.

Jun 30, 2023 at 2:41pmWeb
Show threadParia_StarkJun 30, 2023
You know what that's true. There are more than enough memes community on lemmy, I vote to keep this one as discussion focused as possible.