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### About Community Tracking and helping #redditmigration to Kbin and the Fediverse. Say hello to the decentralized and open future. To see latest reeddit blackout info, see here: https://reddark.untone.uk/

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For those who don't know, retrogaming on Reddit was a labour of love, there is a multireddit, m/retrogamingnetwork that networks over 60 subreddits under one banner giving the audience, banner, and reach of a big subreddit to some very small and niche spaces.

I bopped onto the main subreddit to grab their discord link for https://sub.rehab/ and was amazed to see the sub open. There's a stickied post from "your new head mod" - they've made some changes already, ones that would stir debate if the userbase was still there to know about it: Reveddit Link

To quote the post opener:

First of all, you all know me probably at this point, but I’m Chalupacabra. We’re in the process of readjusting the mod team, so it’s not fully set up yet, but I’m your new head mod. It’s a process that’s been in the works for a bit now, I’m sure you’ve probably noticed some of the changes the team and I have put together to try to mix things up a bit based on what y’all told us you were interested in seeing.

And if there's any doubts as to what the community "were interested in seeing" we had voted 88% in favour of a total blackout.

On the one hand I'm glad I don't have anything to miss on reddit anymore, I'm not interested in being part of communities run by people more interested in themselves than anyone else, but it's sad to see something that should have died peacefully be zombified instead.

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[–] raktheundead@fosstodon.org 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@lavender @pterodactyl: I'm already following a few gaming accounts, retro or otherwise and retrocomputing accounts on Mastodon and I'm still moderating the RGN Discord (not the biggest fan of Discord as a platform, but it's there), so I'm not short of places to discuss retro gaming.

We have raised the possibility of setting up shop on the Fediverse or even on an Invision discussion board; I think a fair few retrogamers remember when the latter was the main way to discuss games online.

[–] Melpomene@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do let us know if you decide to open a federated Retro Gaming magazine or some such... would love to join.

Hey, we opened up a federated retro gaming magazine. We're actually moving the entire community over here.

[–] harmonea@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

If you had such a large multireddit, I hope you seriously consider setting up a whole instance for you guys to use freely! Like /r/startrek did at startrek.website.