Welcome to the Azur Lane Lemmy community.

Neither of the Azur Lane subreddits seem to be interested in the Reddit blackouts or the Fediverse, so it is up to us to create our own Fediverse community instead.

If you have any ideas or suggestions for this new community, comment it down below, or just feel free to introduce yourselves. This is your free forum to ask questions and discuss the game.

Hope to see some new and old faces soon!

  • MeatyBee@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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    1 year ago

    How about a Guild Recruitment threat? I know the Fediverse community here is still small, but as more active the current userbase is participating, the greater the pull.

  • kartexa@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Are you going to be posting game news here? Also I don’t blame the subreddits for not wanting to participate in the blackout. There isn’t much place for people to talk about the game besides Discord and they had the mod fiasco a while back.

    • ShipHeadlights@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Yes, I plan on posting news, tier lists, datamines, earnings reports and everything else regarding the game itself. If someone wants to post them before me though, they are more than welcome to. I will not double post or delete the original posts, unlike a certain Reddit mod who got kicked for just that.

      Unfortunately it is going to be a lot harder now that Twitter is blocking anonymous viewing. I have had two separate accounts banned from Twitter so far, and I don’t plan on going back for a third ban. The first was before Musk when I said they shouldn’t take away RSS feeds, and the second was after Musk when I suggested people should try out Mastodon. Yay for getting banned for not breaking any rules!

      The reason I created this community was to give people a way to follow news and discuss the game without having to go to those walled gardens that corporations are so keen to keep closing tighter. I hope people will learn to say no to what Reddit, Twitter, Discord, and others are doing to the internet, but I doubt it will be anytime soon. In the meantime though, places like this will be here waiting for them.

      • kartexa@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I think it’s a bit much to ask the general userbase to migrate over to federated communities since the way it’s structured isn’t exactly intuitive to non-techy people. I’m still gonna use Reddit at least on desktop since it still has a lot of resources that might not make it over just due to sheer amount of content already on there plus the people that won’t bother finding alternatives. Plus I’m a lurker by default so I don’t get myself targeted by banhammers.

        Still, I like that federated alternatives exist so that people like us can use these types of sites without worrying about the troubles of corporate social media.

        • ShipHeadlights@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Lurking isn’t a bad thing, at least to me, it is appreciated. I do want to see people discussing updates and things about the game as well, but my main goal is to have an easy place to follow news about the game without having to go to Reddit, Twitter, or worse Discord. For anyone reading this, that means if I missed something or I decided it wasn’t important enough to post myself, but you do, go ahead and post it. Just give it a tag for indexing sake like [EN News] or whatever else fits. Though to anyone who is a simple lurker, I ask but one thing, that is to subscribe, because it is the only way I know if people are even reading. It just takes being logged in once, and then you can follow the RSS feed without even having to open a Lemmy webpage.

          I wanted to write two points, one of which is important and the other just a long winded aside. Since this is such a long post, I split it in half and put the important point above. You can ignore the second half if you like. I’m sure it is something you have probably read many times on Reddit and Lemmy’s more meta boards, except written concisely by actual wordsmiths instead.

          It would be a bit much to ask general users to go over to federated communities, which is why I am not. I apologize for being obtuse. Being new to federated communities, I did not realize the implication I was making when I said I wished people would say no to Reddit, Twitter, etc. When I wrote that, I was in the mindset of my personal usage of the internet, which is 90% websites run by individuals such as forums, imageboards, blogs, and so on. Users can say no to a corporate web without moving to a fediverse.

          Alternatives to corporate walled gardens are a simple web search away. They are sometimes as large or larger than their joyless corporate stock-white cousins. The old internet didn’t suddenly disappear when Myspace became big after all. Even old farmers I know discuss with each other on websites that predates Pokemon. To interact they simply register with a username, password, and then post. No phone number, third party authentication, real life details, or whatever else Alphabet, Meta, or whoever is asking for these days. Users don’t even have to necessarily stop using corporate sites altogether. They just have to learn to put up an actual protest instead of just laying down helplessly and saying there is nothing to be done, or worse yet attacking other users who want to point out when corporate actions are an issue for a website.

          I know I am preaching to the choir. I just wanted to nuance a point that is sometimes willfully or otherwise overlooked by those in favor of a federated web.