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Post mostly spawned because whenever I see games that fit various video game genre communities, I try to post it there, and when I hit a strategy game I end up crossposting to lots of different places.

There are two general strategy communities, and some for more specific subgenres. I think it'd be nice to fold the subgenres into a bigger community for now just due to the smaller size of Lemmy so all the strategy fans can talk and see each others' posts instead of sectioned-off isolated folks screaming into the void, but I'm also not a big strategy game buff and I'd rather the people who play them more have a bigger say, hence this post. Besides, if subgenre fans tend to stick to that subgenre and don't bother too much with other things in the overall strategy genre, there is probably a good reason to keep them separate.

We have the big !strategy@lemmy.world, allowing what seems to be anything in the strategy genre, with the last two pages of posts being mostly from @AgentKaryo@lemmy.world and a couple from me. Mod is still active on Lemmy at !sparky@lemmy.federate.cc. However, lemmy.world is the big giant and moving off there might be nice.

Next is !strategygames@sopuli.xyz. Seems to be a similar moderation philosophy. The last time the mod @profilename1@sopuli.xyz posted was 2 months ago. A lot less recent activity, though I think @zagorath@aussie.zone might be interested as well given how often I have seen them around the Fediverse. There are several other posters but from months ago. However, sopuli.xyz is smaller than lemmy.world and moving everyone there might be nice.

Now we get into more specific communities. !rts@reddthat.com, for Real-Time Strategy, a subgenre of strategy games. Mod, @reddthat@reddthat.com was active in the past month, and primary poster is @zagorath@aussie.zone, active in past few days which is great! Seems to be just them though and it would be nice for them to get visibility from other groups and other posters. Smaller instance, which is nice.

Finally, !realtimestrategy@lemmy.world, yet again presenting the problem of being on lemmy.world. Mod @frostwolf@lemmy.world not seen for 2 years. Variety of posters, not much activity here though.

!turnbasedstrategy@lemmy.world again presents the problem of being on lemmy.world. Primary poster @AgentKaryo@lemmy.world again, seems to be just them. Mod @SteelBeard@lemmy.world has not been seen for 2 years.

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[โ€“] Profilename1@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

At the time, the idea behind !strategygames@sopuli.xyz was two-fold. First, it would be a general place to talk about all strategy games, serving as a "bridge community" until Lemmy was big enough to support more specific communities focused on individual games. Second, it would be on sopuli.xyz to discourage consolidation on the lemmy.ml and lemmy.world sites. It's debatable how successful it's been in those two things, and I'll admit I haven't been super active.

I'm open to modding people for the !strategygames@sopuli.xyz community, as the intent was always to develop the community rather than control it or camp on the name. Let me know if you're interested.

[โ€“] Blaze@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago