Soliciting community input on two things that should happen, but if I don’t receive input in several weeks I’m willing to proceed myself—in other words, I’m not just kicking the ball to the community to make a decision for me and refusing to make any decisions myself.

Backup Instance

This community exists on ani.social because…

  1. someone else made !otomegames@kbin.social and I participated. kbin.social died.
  2. So I made an otome community to replace it: !otomegames@kbin.run. kbin.run died.

I really thought kbin.run would have longevity, especially because its admin was an Mbin maintainer (Mbin is the software kbin.run ran on) and kbin.run had been up for over a year. I was suggested to make a backup community just in case ani.social also goes down, and I’m finally taking care of that.

I was wondering if ya’ll have any communities you’d prefer to have the backup !otomegames to be on, or to avoid it being on. I’ve heard of lemmy.ml being very controversial and also overrun with politics, and otomegames is supposed to be a fun gaming space so I can definitely tell you it’s not going there. I also won’t put it on lemmy.world, because that’s the huge flagship instance and one of the points of the Fediverse is decentralization. I would prefer to go to a gaming-centric, anime-centric, and/or fandom-centric instance. I was going to put the backup community on some Lemmy or Mbin instance, but I could be convinced to try out PieFed.

Icon Picking

Communities without an icon tend not to get clicked on as much. I made the current one. The current one also doesn’t really fit in on ani.social (which has anime images for its communities, not my crappily-made pixel art). The current one frankly would also fit romance games that aren’t otome.

I was wondering what image we’d want to put up there that more clearly screams “otome”. I was thinking an image of Katarina from My Next Life as a Villainess with a guy looking at her with desire, because it’s a guy wanting a girl, because that anime has a corresponding otome game, and that anime is not very male gazey. I know Hakuoki has an anime too, so I could try looking there. If I can find a picture of an anime girl playing an otome game that might be even better. Maybe a pixel art again except it’s clicking on anime boys with hearts in their eyes? EDIT: Icon picked!

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    3 days ago

    That’s where I made my OtomeGamesBot that broke. I had login troubles for awhile, but this comment prompted me to try again and I got in and successfully made a test post with the bot. I appreciate the suggestion, I’ll look there again.