Coelacanth

Is there a sister community for people who keep buying games and still keep playing the same old games as always regardless? Definitely asking for a friend, absolutely haven’t spent another month on STALKER Anomaly instead of working on the backlog. No sir.

Browsing /subscribed only is definitely the way.

I don’t subscribe to many meme communities but I do like surrealism so I’ll give it a shot for a while and see how it feels.

It was probably poorly phrased but I feel like I remember there was a group of various instance admins at the time discussing ways to deal with it, so it was more of a reference to maybe they figured something out.

You’re right that they used tiny instances with no oversight and open registrations to ban evade for a long time even before this debacle when it was just normal Nicole spam.

A copycat spammer started sending gore pictures to people using the same Nicole copypasta text. A lot of people got upset and there was a flurry of discussion over like a 24h period. Some people seemed to think it was a serial killer and Nicole had been doxxed and killed. In reality if I recall right the picture was from a morgue somewhere in China.

Anyway the whole thing led to a general “okay maybe the joke has run its course and we shouldn’t encourage this” type of moment and the sub was shut down. Presumably the spammer stopped spamming once they no longer received attention, but maybe the admins found and IP banned them or something. I have no idea.

That’s some slop for sure.

Slopornot has a great ring to it I must say.

Interesting.

What niche does this community fill that the other four to six general purpose gaming communities fail to? Stricter moderation? Only OC posts? No news article posts? What differentiates this from !letstalkaboutgames@feddit.uk for example?

No clue, sorry.

Oh I missed that somehow! I’ll subscribe just in case, but I agree with you that the functionality should ideally be built in to the software.

No idea, it just stopped working. It already didn’t work with Piefed communities I think, maybe it was taken down for maintenance and never put back up?

What we really need is a revival of the functionality of the bot at !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl that died. I still miss it so much :(

This is the answer, I hope it’s common knowledge by now.

Yeah, agreed. Between lemm.ee closing leading to people moving over to Piefed in droves and Summer Lemmy coming to an end I don’t see anything concerning in the data I think.

Wasn’t July 1st when lemm.ee shut down?

I haven’t, but then again I don’t subscribe to News or Politics communities.

I still use my old iPod from like 15 years ago.

Oh, is it iOS only?

Same. I’m also interested