It’s great to see a lot of people subscribing here! I’m Lells, you might know me as Lellela from Reddit, or even oldmansutton from Bay12Games. Welcome all!
I started this magazine because I’m pretty much done rewarding Reddit with content when I don’t agree with their behavior and poor choices. So the idea of a decentralized network is a move back in the direction where we the users have more control. For now, this is a platform I believe in. Trust is earned. I’m guessing most of you agree with some of this since you’re here.
I’m still learning about it with all of you. I never really wanted to be a moderator. But I love Dwarf Fortress with all my heart, and I know there are others of you out there who share that love, so I wanted us to have a space to be welcome and have a community, and share with each other. To help make both the fediverse AND a community within it a reality, I decided to make this magazine. I can’t do this alone, nor do I want to. We’re DF players, we are engineers… we are dwarfs and we are digging a hole! What do we want our community to look like? What information do we want to provide? What rules do we want to have? We ARE a community, so let’s decide together.
Thanks everybody, and strike the earth!
TL;DR - Diggy diggy hole
*Edited to remove rambling introduction
Thanks for making a spot on kbin for Dwarf Fortress! Everything your team does is awesome, and it is refreshing to see people as passionate about their work as y’all are. I wish all of you the best, and I will be lurking here in the shadows.
What rules do we want to have?
No photos of the screen, upload screen captures instead
Seriously, it grinds my gears
Added to the rules, thanks.
There’s no need for arbitrary rules just because it grinds someone’s gears.
It actually makes my day every time I see someone share a photo of their screen; kind of a wholesome reminder of simpler times. It hasn’t been an issue of visibility with the majority of the DF content they’re trying to share that I’ve seen. People just like piling on with “ermahgerd you took a photo pf your screen”.
Only time I’ve seen screen photos being an actual issue is people taking a picture of a snippet of code and asking why it doesn’t work with no other information provided about the problem they’re having.
I mean it doesn’t personally bother me either, it’s not ideal, but it’s not the end of the world. I’ll go with whatever the general consensus is though.
I agree that photos of screens should be allowed even if it can be annoying. We should be encouraging people to share content.
