Hey! I know the community is only small currently, but how much of a push will there be to get this community on par with the subreddit?
While there is only a small community here currently, and the lack of content posted so far isn’t exactly going to draw people in, is there any plans set by the current mod to say post a link to the subreddit, or discuss with a mod there to try and get some traction here by posting it in the sidebar or similar?
I’m not even sure how that subreddit stands in the blackout on 12-14th June, but having this community built out isn’t going to hurt, i imagine there will become a point, assuming this community gets in similar size to the reddit one, that most content would be easily cross posted when the images are hosted on imgur or similar anyway.
I’m all for helping out where I can, I’ve only posted like twice on the Factorio subreddit, so i’m not exactly going to open the flood gates in any capacity, but just wondering if there is currently a plan?
Reallistically, growing on par with the subreddit won’t happen anytime soon. I mean, there are five times as many subscriptors (lurkers aside) on the subreddit as there are users in the whole “lemmyverse”
It’s true that numbers are growing fast and what happens during/after the blackout is still to to be seen.
When I “arrived” and was looking around, there were quite a few references to factorio but no community in any instance (that I could find)
As noone was creating a community, and since dedicated communities were being created (dwarf fortress, DRG, Terraria, …)
My idea is not “I own the first…” “I created / mod…” but “There’s interest in the game and if people keep joining, there will be more people interested in having a dedicated space to discuss the game, and currently there’s none”. I applied that of “be the change you want to see” Heck, my Reddit account dates from 2010? 2011? and I have more posts and comments in this community alone than the total of my Reddit account (forever lurker)
Having more content is something that I believe is a task for all of us. If / when the community grows and if there’s people interested (you can bookmark this comment) I’ll gladly hand the community over to manage the growth. Fire the time being, I think the most important thing is that when people arrive and search in the communities have them think “Hey, there’s people interested in factorio here too” instead of “Which instance should I post too? Should I crosspost? Should I stay in my instance?..”
By the way, thanks for joining
Edit: autocorrect
Yeah, when you look at the numbers in the whole “lemmyverse” it really puts it into contrast, i just assumed there was already more activity in these websites than there was!
I have seen a few posts around about what kind of communities are missing from the lemmy and what people want to see, its what initially drove me to search for the factorio community, so it is clear just how many are getting created constantly.
I like the approach you are taking with it though, to just let it be a space to discuss the game that isn’t necessarily in competition or in parallel with the subreddit or other factorio forums, but just exists as a place for people to post in and share about the game!
Thaks for getting back, I look forward to community that can grow here!
Just a note, I’m trying to subscribe for 2 or more days now. I cancelled the pending subscribe and resubscribed multiple times, but it does not seem to process.
So it might be more people would subscribe if it was technically possible.
Anyways, glad to see fellow engineers on lemmy :)