I’ve played a lot of games off and on over the years, but my main two are Skullgirls (Val/Robo/Para) and Them’s Fightin’ Herds (Velvet).

I’ve gone ahead and made https://kbin.social/m/fgc here, get the ball rolling on that.

Boss fights that are synchronized to the music. Not too many I can think of off the top of my head right now though. There’s Violette in One Step From Eden, and I guess you can count the final stage of Splatoon 2 Octo Expansion sorta loosely did this with the final minute transition.

I’m not gone yet and I don’t know if I actually will be. No matter how frustrated I am with the platform and have been for years now, I don’t feel that anything else is ready to replace it.

I wish Lemmy the best but I have my doubts as to how well it’ll take off. I remember when Digg died, Reddit was already popular enough to make jumping ship a no brainer for just about everyone. Lemmy is not there yet, and I don’t know if it ever will be. It’s much smaller than Mastodon/Fediverse, and that’s been very slow to pull users away from the even more hated platform it wants to challenge. Can Lemmy achieve the critical mass it needs to succeed?

What’s mainly keeping me on Reddit is certain small subs for niche hobbies. Only on the largest platforms is it possible to find people who share my microinterests. Reddit and Discord are it, and Discord really only works as an ephemeral chatroom, it’s terrible for news or threaded discussion. Not to mention how much of a problem it is that Discord isn’t indexed by search engines.

I really like BattleCon, a fighting game-inspired card/board game that did a really good job translating the mindgames and oki into a turn-based format. They had an online version of it but sadly halted development because they couldn’t figure out how to monetize it.

I also love me some good ol’ Riichi Mahjong. There’s a group that brings tiles to fighting game tournaments since these are becoming cons in disguise, I got some nice hands at Combo Breaker this year.

I like the idea and KBin’s software looks really nice. My concern is that it just won’t have the critical mass needed to get what I got out of Reddit: niche subs. On Reddit, every single game has its own individual sub and they’re all active. That’s not gonna work here.

I did set up !fgc@kbin.social and !splatoon@kbin.social, but I don’t know if these will take off, and I’m not going to bother trying with individual fighting games or smaller indie titles.

Also, I’m intrigued that KBin is able to talk to Mastodon and Pleroma, but I can’t seem to find myself. I search for @missingno but nothing shows up.

I’ve set up !fgc@kbin.social

It’s probably not practical to have subs for individual games just yet though.

I’ve gone ahead and created !fgc@kbin.social and !splatoon@kbin.social. Would like to have focused subs for individual fighting games (Skullgirls, ThemsFightinHerds), but that’s probably not practical yet. Generally I’d just like to look up whatever game I’m playing right now and find a community for it.

Would also like to see /mahjong as well, may set that up myself later.

Phonograph - Music player
Newpipe - Youtube frontend
Husky - Pleroma client
KDE Connect - Desktop connectivity
Tachiyomi - Manga reader
Simon Tatham’s Puzzles - Pen and paper-style logic puzzle collection

I’m intrigued by the idea of being able to talk to other Fediverse apps, but searching for my Pleroma account at @missingno to test this out turns up nothing. Is there some way to force discovery?

Make that $10 more.

I came into kbin with kinda low expectations. I fear that Reddit is too big to fail, and that if a competitor isn’t already where Reddit was when Digg died it won’t achieve the critical mass needed to get anywhere. My impression of Lemmy was that it’s just not ready yet.

But the more I explore kbin, the more impressed I am with the software. It’s still a long way to go to attract the userbase, and I still don’t know if that critical mass will come, but I want to try and push for this. Let’s see what happens, nothing to lose and everything to gain.