And it's extra shitty because Beehaw has the largest technology community in the fediverse, so if you want to access it you better make sure you're a member of one of their 'blessed' federated friends.
Until the instance you choose to set up on ends up in a feud with any, or all of those instances.
The whole fediverse experiment is going to end up with a number of small, highly segregated communities, and even more political polarization. I guess if you want to live in an echo chamber, a federated environment is the best way to go about it.
And this is why the fediverse will never work out - if I gamble wrong and set up shop on an instance that gets in a pissing match with other ones, I either have to make an account elsewhere (and then have to do it again later the next time two instances defederate each other) or live with only seeing some of my subscribed content.
retrogamedev - a group/resource for retro game (and software) developers
As a long time developer of games for retro platforms (mainly MS-DOS), I thought it would be cool to have a space where other developers of games and software for retro platforms (computers, consoles and handhelds) could show off their projects, ask questions or get help with their projects. Note that the group mainly focuses on retro hardware - sixth-generation or earlier consoles/handhelds, pre-2000 PCs and computers - though exotic 2000s era hardware is cool too: if you've created a Nuon or Game Park 32 game, we'd love to see it!
If this sounds interesting to you, come check it out! /c/[email protected]
lemmy.world/c/retrogamedev