Yeah I got my young son and all his friends onto SimpleX because you don't need a phone number to use it. Works great except they don't use it, they still default to fucking Facebook messenger.

Neat. But it's not pre social media. Social media has been around since the 1980s.

That's why I alternately call it the "platform web" in which social media stopped running on open and interoperable protocols and started being walled gardens on commercial platforms.

And to your other point - it shouldn't be solely up to forum admins to opt-in to the Fediverse, end users should be able to subscribe to the forums they belong to with Fedi-powered tools.

The Fediverse could and should be the place where all those things can converge but I'm pointing out that it currently is failing to be that.

Not a stupid question, but I should clarify that I'm approaching this as a reader, not an admin. I'm trying to find a reading solution that encompasses forums running on Discourse, NodeBB, and whatever else older platforms might still have thriving communities around topics I'm interested in.

I found the DiscourseHub app that lets you browse and subscribe to a wide cross section of communities powered by Discourse, but no NodeBB or others. The solution I'm envisioning would be like that but agnostic of platforms.

Real interoperability should allow the publisher (them) to set the level of access (public/private) to their content AND THEN the end user (you and me) to choose the kind of client experience we use to consume that content so we can customize the user experience to our needs. That's how email and websites work. If a forum software exposed its posts and comments to the open web or RSS (or even just to logged in users), anyone should be able to open that content with the browser or app of their choice. Commercial social platforms have distorted this very basic relationship between publishers and users but we can never forget that is the way it should be.

REDACTED, so... really not great.

I’ve been delving back through my backlog and checking out some roguelites that I wasn’t done with — or that weren’t done with me…

• REDACTED
• Children of Morta
• Inscryption
• Soulstone Survivors
• Atomicrops
• Nuclear Throne
• Pathogenic
• The Land Beneath Us
• Ember Knights

Not my site but I’m a big fan. They post regularly in the roguelites subreddit and most of their posts are gold — they are doing a great job covering the whole space. They have these monthly updates of everything noteworthy releasing, but then they also do deep dives about specific games and even “evergreen” articles like “The best survivorslikes you can play on Switch” and that sort of thing. They even dip their toe into noteworthy trad roguelikes and some select soulslikes as well.

I don’t know who to ask but I think it’d be nice to pipe their RSS feed into this /c/ just to spark discussion.

I mean... The other reason to start in a niche is because one is interested in a narrow subset of the wider topic and wants to avoid the bigger, louder, more mainstream content that dominates the conversation. I get that going up to c/games might have more content but if it's all about Call of Duty and Madden Football, it's not for me.

In this case I’m the third party that wanted to share, but in their case, they post everything that goes on their blog also to their own subreddit, and then routinely repost into r/roguelites where it can find a larger audience and generate conversation around it, like we’re doing here. I see them as complementary, not antithetical.

I think what you’re saying is that you don’t want social media to be one-way “megaphone marketing”, and I agree with that. We also have the issue of not enough content being discoverable here in Lemmy, and I think piping in good feeds and discussing them is a great way to spur interaction, as long as it isn’t done in a way that drowns out or ignores the rest of the community.

There are a handful of blog or YouTube feeds that I’d consistently want to see everything they post from within whichever app I’m reading in. In other words, I don’t have to go to their blog or my RSS reader to see their updates because they also routinely appear in the Reddit app (or Lemmy) that I’m always in anyways.

Rogueliker.com is one, but there are some YouTubers like GohJoe, Haelian, and Veedotme whose feeds are “all killer, no filler” on the topic of roguelites, that I use to just find out about what’s new and cool.

I even created a custom RSS feed in Inoreader based on very narrow keywords that surfaces only “roguelites” OR “roguelikes” PLUS “Playstation”, “PS5” OR “Android”. The resulting feed, at least for me, is a densely relevant list of everything new in the world of roguish games that fits my personal requirements. Not saying that’d be relevant to everyone here, but something similarly tailored could be.

Maybe the answer is to feed those in one at a time, or to create my own aggregate feed of just the episodes and posts I think are absolutely worth sharing. I think if more of us had streamlined ways to do that, there’d be a lot more interesting content overall to look at in this sub. We can always downvote anything that sucks.

Does the music you MAKE sound like the music you LIKE? It’s very easy to make music the way our tools want us/let us work, rather than bending those tools to sound like the artists that we’d hear in a cafe and ask to know who it is. It’s always good to have a specific reference track to compare yours to.

If you have a favorite artist or artists, research everything you can about how they get their sounds. Borrow song structure tricks — most people struggle to turn loops into songs, and your favorite artists probably do this well.

Couldn't a sub moderator regulate that in real time though? Ideally they shouldn't have to do too much of that, but in my experience many RSS feeds have a consistent volume of posts per day. I'm talking about choosing 1-2 feeds that post under 10 posts per day total, and an attentive mod could kibosh up to 3-4 if they're not relevant to what the community wants. Could even put keyword filters on the feeds so relevant posts never hit the sub in the first place.

How many Jeffrey Epsteins and Martin Shkrelis would we have BTW?

I got perma-banned yesterday... too for a dumb joke that was misunderstood by their oversensitive algorithm. It wasn't the first time, either. I'm not a hateful or bigoted person but their content filters think I am. Finally, I decided I didn't need to justify myself to their nameless faceless algorithm. I'm going cold turkey without my Reddit addiction, and I'm going to really make a go here on the Fedi.

Great stuff here! I discovered roguelites last year and now I have severe Steam envy for all the great games that come to Windows first. I've heard so much good stuff about Noita, Magicraft, Tiny Rogues, Shape of Dreams... I have to wait until they come to PlayStation or try to emulate them on my android tablet. I keep playing Isaac to see what the fuss is about but so far it hasn't hooked me. Others like Balatro, Brotato, Ball x Pit, and Griftlands are tons of fun

You mean the guitar WE found...

Returnal is my #1 all time, now battling my way through REDACTED among others. That and Warm Snow are tough! I haven't gotten far in either.

I agree that BoI doesn't do it for me but I'm still playing it to see what the big deal is, probably 5 hours in. It does have interesting build variety but so far it's not enough to make up for the ugly / gross game design and simplistic combat.

Surprised to hear you like REDACTED but not Hades! I am close to 100%ing Hades 2 and it's 🤌✨ even better than the first.

Then we have a real chicken/egg problem - not enough content to discuss and nobody discussing it.

Take a specific c/ like /us_news as an example. The feed is largely made up of timely posts from specific US news sites that are presumably acceptable to members. They can read a digest of the day's news and react.

Then take a niche example like c/roguelites. There's maybe one blog about roguelite games I know of where every post is worth reading, rogueliker.com. In Reddit that blog has its own sub but reposts almost every post into r/roguelites. No one minds because (a) the content is good and (b) there's enough other organic activity in that sub that it doesn't feel like it's all just that blog. We have less organic activity overall here, but I'm trying to think of ways to spur engagement so communities have something going on in them.

Net.Attack() looks like a similar concept, a survivorslike where you build your attack upgrades like code blocks. I haven't gotten far with it yet but excited to go further.

I just got Pathologic and I already really like the combat and the way metaprogression comes in the form of building and perfecting a biological organism. Very polished and fun.

I've heard good things about it and it's coming to the platforms I play, I'll have to check it out. Clover Pit is also quite fun in this genre.