Heh, why does it not surprise me to read that Player.me is going to shut down? That place went to the shitter after they made their intent clear to focus on streamers mostly and then we got flooded with 'plz follow my stream' spam in our timeline.
Actually, it's probably just as well because that led me to search for alternatives, and I ended up here in the Fediverse. :)
If any, I'm more surprised that they managed to survive for this long. That place was most fun somewhere before 2018, we had great gaming conversations then. Kinda miss that time a little.
#Games
@trinsec Same, at least I met some amazing people there ;) Made some friends along the way.
@Wenin Oh yeah! Way more casual convos everywhere on the Fediverse!
Maybe it's a bit too technical for them to figure out which instance to join? It did take me some time at first as well to figure out what they meant with instances. And I moved my account a few times before I settled down.
@trinsec I guess there is the hurdle of getting into it, just looked into it and there are like 50 instances on the joinmastodon website despite so many choices, so that may be an issue.
And understanding what an instance is in the first place x)
I actually only moved it once, from another wlw instance to the one I am now on :)
@Wenin I went from mastodon.social (the first 'main' instance, good chance many people start there first) towards mastodon.host, and stayed there until they crashed so hardcore that I searched for a new place. Now qoto.org is my home, nice features, lots of text possible (no silly 500 chars limit), etc. So, I've been here for like... mm, 1,5 years or so now I guess? Not bad.
@trinsec Nice features are nice!
We also have some adjustments compared to vanilla mastodon and I think... 8 million chars limit *counts* xD So plenty of space for thoughts x)
Always hated these imposed chars limits of 180 chars or 500 chars... and then people start doing huge "threads" which are difficult to follow?^^
*doesn't even know when I opened this account*
@Wenin Yeah, I saw your instance runs Glitch social, a modified Mastodon codebase. :) Mine doesn't run Glitch, but it's also modified. 65k characters which is plenty enough obviously. :D
My account here started on.. well, officially on november 2020 I think. But I've registered since uh.. 2018? Just decided to settle on mastodon.host to chat there until they crashed, and remembered after that that I still had an account here and can just continue because they also have no char limit here. (.host had like 4k limit, which was also nice!)
The quote and RSS features are also nice, and some others that you can read about in the About page. Maybe Glitch got some of that as well.
But yeah, screw the 'micro'blogging. damnit! If we wanted to do that shit we'd just go to Twitter! ;)
@trinsec Haha yes, I don't think I will ever reach the char limit on this server! even 65k would be a stretch! I do reach the char limit on discord from time to time (2k iirc) so I am happy I can type longer rants here.
I joined end of 2018 and switched to this instance in 2019 :)
I have to say, that I don't use mastodon that often (or social media in general^^) so I am fine with the features we have and I guess I don't use 63% of them? xD
No one wants to go to twitter though :O
@Wenin Hehe. As you probably can gather from my post history, I do use this social media a lot. Discord on the other hand.. barely. ;)
I usually only go on Discord to ask for help about software/games I use on their dev's channels. :)
@trinsec Lack of knowledge? Not sure. Most of them went to Discord, me thinks, at least that's where I have most of my player contacts still going on.
Despite the fediverse being coool! x)