Hey, you posted this twice. Pretty easy to do, if your initial post does not go through and you hit Reply again…

That’s interesting! What are you on? I use Lemmy from the browser only.

Thanks for adding community links!

At least for me, they shove me over to lemmy.world. I suspect you may have clicked the autofill suggestion, which includes the instance in the link and thus forces all users who click onto your instance. If you don’t do that and just write !communityname@instancename, it will let people click the link and go to the community on their instance, so they can interact instead of just browsing. I see you’re from Emmy.world.

!videogamesuggestions@lemmy.zip should let you see from lemmy.world and interact and comment and vote and the like. !videogamesuggestions@lemmy.zip (I clicked the autofill this time, it produced [!videogamesuggestions@lemmy.zip](https://lemmy.zip/c/videogamesuggestions)) will just toss you onto my instance, lemmy.zip.

The screenshots frustrated me too, because I’ve seen that done before where it’s a daily screenshot and nothing else, feels low-effort and annoying and somehow spammy even if it’s still on topic. Although my approach was to just scroll on, especially since it was just another spam post and not outrage-inducing. If it got truly bothersome I could always click the user and block.

Then I actually clicked one and saw the thoughts. They belong here. Wish there was a simple way for the poster to communicate to people like me, who got tired of seeing low-effort “screenshot a day” stuff and will make assumptions, that their posts are more than those and have actual words and effort with them.

If we’re doing individual games, there are so many but off the top of my head !stardewvalley@lemm.ee, !pokemon@lemm.ee, !workersandresources@lemmy.world, !cities_skylines@lemmy.world, !baldurs_gate_3@lemmy.world, and I guess !touhou@ani.social even though that is mostly just reposts of other peoples’ art of the characters and nothing else because in the end, it is a video game series.

I realize hitting all the game-related communities might expand the sidebar too much. Spoilers are also useful for condensing lots of content to one dropdown. If that is still too much, you could make a whole post that lists video game communities and link to it on the sidebar. I know I collected a big mega list way back when, not the genre one I linked below, but one full of basically everything I could find video-game related… that is probably full of dead communities now because I think I made this list around 2 years ago when Kbin was still a thing with my now-dead account. So everything might fit on one separate post for now. But I definitely think having a sort of directory for video game communities might be useful and helpful.

If we’re adding gaming communities to the sidebar, my list here of gaming genre-specific communities could be helpful.

Can testify to activity of !automationgames@lemmy.zip and !otomegames@ani.social as their mod, to !incremental_games@incremental.social as someone with an account there (even if you do not see it from this side, federation issues…), and to !visualnovels@ani.social, !shmups@lemmus.org, !cozygames@lemmy.world, and !lifesimulation@lemmy.world someone subbed to them. The others might also have activity, including ones I listed as inactive at the time of that post. I sometimes post to the others on the list I am not subbed to if I come across a game in their genre, but I don’t remember off the top of my head.

ncase! Site is full of fun and educational interactables, highly recommend. Though I did not know about this one, so thanks for the post

Even if it doesn’t work, I’d at least want to let people try and get practice doing something about a problem (even if that’s just leaving a comment on social media to direct others to sign a petition that will eventually get lawmakers’ attention with enough signatures based on that country’s laws, because that still has more chance for good than yet another comment about X Thing Bad. Even though I agree with a lot of Lemmy’s X Thing Bad takes), makes them more likely to do something in the future. At least they can walk away saying “I tried”. Some people might see no guarantee of results for their time and think of it as time wasted, and that is their choice, but I don’t really see a reason to say “that’ll never work” without any offer of alternative. Most charitably, you are trying to save them time and disappointment, trying to prevent a “it didn’t work, activism does not work, I’ll never do anything like that again” attitude if it fails, but I think a lot of people are just seeing the comment as pointless negativity.

I heard about this on Reddit, glad to see it has made its way to the Fediverse. I am curious what you are using to develop this, since I’ve also been interested in making my own personal walking app (not going to be competition, only ever intended to release to myself and maybe a few friends).