Hi there! I recently created !sonicthehedgehog@lemmy.world, !metroid@lemmy.world, and !slycooper@lemmy.world for their respective series. All three of these are series I really enjoy, and it seemed like there wasn’t much in the way of active communities for them.

  • Sly I could find nothing for.
  • Sonic has an SDF, .ml, and pawb.social community, but these are dead, and their moderators have not posted anything anywhere in nearly a year or more.
  • Metroid has one nearly dead community on lemm.ee which I would have posted to instead, except both of its moderators seem to be long-gone as well.

These all have the same (I think pretty lax) sets of rules, and I intend to share the rules across any retro gaming subreddits I may create going forward. I’m not looking for moderators right now only because these are starting out so small, but I’d be stoked to have you come check any of them out and contribute!

  • Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    4 months ago

    As for lemm.ee, I decided against getting in contact with the admins and trying to work something out (I’m not unfamiliar with this, as I had to contact one of the administrators of Lemmy.World to work out the Sonic community since it had been previously deleted) predominantly because I felt the 500 kB image upload limit could be detrimental to those wanting to post fan art. That is, I thought it’d give users a better experience all while being easier to create on my home instance, making it a no-brainer to me.

    On this point, I suggest using catbox.moe or another image hosting service. Lemmy is still small, but if we keep growing and storing the pictures on the instances themselves, that might become an issue for admins

    • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      4 months ago

      Interesting! I’d feel a lot more comfortable with it if it were FOSS, but it still looks like a good host. I’ll add a link to it in the sidebars with the non-FOSS disclaimer and suggest that users posting videos or very large images use it. Thank you. :)

    • Blueberrydreamer@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Just a heads up, catbox.moe is starting to get blocked by some major ISPs. Verizon is one I’ve run into, catbox links won’t load if I’m using the mobile network.