!horror_games@piefed.world is doing good for a new niche comm launch.

The posts are mostly by yours truly, but I think that’s to be expected for a niche community. At least there are comments and occasionally even posts.

There are no real gaming or device or brand communities.

Some relatively active (in terms of posts, breadth of content and user engagement) gaming communities across Lemmy/Threadi:

• Adventure Games - !adventuregames@retrolemmy.com
• Automation Games - !automationgames@lemmy.zip
• Cozy Games - !cozygames@lemmy.world
• City Builders - !citybuilders@sh.itjust.works
• Indie Games (variety) - !bside@fedia.io
• Lifesim Games - !lifesimulation@lemmy.world
• Open Source Games - !foss_gaming@lemmy.world
• PC RPGs (cRPGs) - !crpg@lemmy.world
• Roguelike Games - !roguelikes@lemmy.world
• RTS Games - !rts@reddthat.com
• Space Games (variety) - !space_games@piefed.world
• Strategy Games - !strategy_games@piefed.world
• Turn-based Strategy (e.g. 4X) - !turnbasedstrategy@piefed.world
• Tycoon / Business Sim Games - !tycoon@lemmy.world
• Video Game Art - !gameart@sopuli.xyz
• Video Game Music - !vgmusic@lemmy.world
• Video Game Questions - !askgaming@piefed.social

I moderate/curate like 6 of them, so I am biased, but we do have a solid selection of gaming communities beyond !games@lemmy.world or !pcgaming@lemmy.ca.

Waiting in my instance to update to Piefed 1.4, I will add World of JRPGs to the sidebar once that happens.

Shameless plug.

If you are into computer RPGs (CRPGs), we have a relatively active community:

!crpg@lemmy.world

The JRPG community is also pretty active:

!jrpg@lemmy.zip

I am not aware of the “JL situation”, but I mind don’t switching over to !OpenSourceGames@programming.dev. , so that’s what I’ll do moving forward.

Honestly, I just want vibrant communities on topics of interest to me that are not tied to US-style commercial social platforms.

@cm0002@lemdro.id

I am good with moving over to the other comm if anything. I will ping cm000 a bit later, I am curious about their take.

Don’t know if you are a regular in this community, but such proposals are pretty common (and I will take the liberty of saying cm000, the main poster in the other comm, is even open to such approaches).

Even if we did have say 1 million MAUs, it still makes sense to have some sort of differentiation between communities (rules, regional focus, types of games etc.); currently there is none.

I use Piefed on Voyager, they don’t really support any of the major features of Piefed.

I still use the mobile WebUI mostly.