I'll be honest, I 1) have no problem with straight males enjoying content aimed at them, including male-gazey content. I am 2) a woman extremely disinterested in that. I think the entire reason on Reddit we congregated on r/otomegames and usually didn't bleed into r/visualnovels is because r/visualnovels catered mostly to men, and although that's fine there also wasn't much there for us. I took a brief look at your link and although it does have gender-neutral stuff like Ace Attorney, the one otome post has two downvotes and zero upvotes despite being on topic, and I see a lot of romance games aimed at men sexually interested in women. So sorry, but definitely not for me. Yes, those downvotes might be the obligatory few downvotes on nearly any Fediverse post I see ever no matter how inoffensive and on topic, but still, no approval balancing it out… nevermind, I read it wrong, two upvotes. My point about content I actively do not want to see (though I am okay with others consuming it) being prominent there as well as neutral news still stands. (Yes, I can handle male gaze in shows, I really enjoyed Kobayashi's Dragon Maid. But it feels a little different to play as a guy where at least part of the goal, whether explicit in game or just a goal in real life and not part of the main story, is to see women in a manner sexually exciting to a straight man. And although most otome aren't quite sexual, and more about romance, I feel some men might also not want to see content focused on games where a big goal is to romance a man as a woman, presented in a femgazey way or a way tailored to our desires even if not sexualized.)
I know of the Lemmy alternative and I think I was ignoring it because at first, otomegames@kbin.social did have activity, and the Lemmy one was overrun by just reposts of fan art someone else drew (at least with attribution) and I preferred majority-discussion over a replication of that particular game's tag on Pixiv. Also, oh god the English errors on the rules. It seems to have died so I might try that if this doesn't work. Does Lemmy have a way to get inactive mods removed and replaced? Thank you for the recommendation!
(So why don't I just recruit from the subreddit? Already tried when Lemmy and Kbin were getting their big population boom from the API drama. I got shoved into the Self-Promotion Sunday threads that nobody pays attention to.)
I know kbin.social has issues but I figured the federated nature of the Fediverse meant we could still post to communities there without being on it ourselves. Is the issue that the posts will be frequently inaccessible? I am a little confused.
Hmm, this feels like the inverse of my own opinion. I don't like clicking that much but am totally fine with the standard "click a bit for your first producers" mechanic. Curious why you dislike it.
That's okay about the old comment, I can still see it so here it is:
Pure curiosity—if I hit Report, do you receive the report or does my instance admin receive the report? I reported the post before I saw your comment.
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Huh? I'm posting from Mbin, and it looks like incremental_social is an Mbin instance too. Do you mean your Matrix space?
And no problem replying, I appreciate it! Kind of jealous that your weekly posts get engagement. I'm basically the only person propping up @otomegames and people didn't reply, and I've fallen off on posting the weekly threads since. But I suppose incremental games are less niche than otome games, so it makes sense.
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What is one change you would make to an incremental game you have played? (kbin.run)
PokeClicker is a very active game. I prefer idling. I unabashedly use scripts to change it to be more idle and I'm having a good time.