I feel you. You can start your community and post content to get started and then handover moderation if/when others join. I considered doing the same but unfortunately I just don't have the content to get started with so I'm more down to wait and see. I've made a list of my favourite subs and set a weekly reminder on my phone to check on here if they exist.
MrFahrenheit
joined 2 years ago
My account dies with Apollo
Posting here at the moment feels like posting on Reddit in the early days. The sense of true community was real, it was more organic content from everyday people instead of the corporate machine that it became with sponsored content, brigading, shills and even subs changing their nature from IAMA Bricklayer to IAMA Movie Star with a movie releasing tomorrow which I'm here to promote. The whole voting system went to crap and the vote numbers were completely out of touch with actual user sentiment.
As long as the fediverse has a more sustainable model and does not go down the corporate route we should be ok until the marketeers, SEOs and advertisers arrive with their thinly veiled attempts at self/client promotion.
A dedicated instance sounds better than a magazine though not sure who'd be willing to take on the expense of taking on that volume of data.
The easiest grab method would be using the API, which provides about a week to get dev approval and to copy all Reddit data via the API without getting banned.
If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes should fall like a house of cards.
Checkmate
And 37 points on here already. Just 43297 to go
!remindme 12 years
This is where PS+ will be in 5 years...
The only thing that can stop this happening is either support of physical sales, or additional marketplaces for digital games