I grew up in the 8-bit era and love me some chiptunes / 8-bit VG music. So then, I just found and subscribed here and have been enjoying the feed, but then noticed the very small number of subscribers, which struck me as a pity. So I took a look at these fellow communities for the purposes of possibility adding them as well:

!chiptune@lemmy.world
!chiptunes@lemmy.sdf.org
!vgmusic@lemmy.world

First observation is that they all have many more subscribers, which seems promising. Unfortunately the top one looks effectively abandoned. Second one has two posts in the last month, if that’s your cuppa joe. Third has a whopping 1.5k subscribers; unfortunately it’s also quite slow.

Personally my preference is for communities with 1) steady output and 2) a large-enough userbase to generate some discussion from time to time. Otherwise we might as well just be browsing some of the excellent repositories of 8-bit tunes, like the amazing Remix.Kwed.org, right?

Well, this may all sound like I’m just a user lazily complaining, but in fact I also run a specialty community on the FV and know exactly the hardships of producing new material on the regular, as well as building the userbase, encouraging discussion.

So then, @Chris@feddit.uk, I wonder what your thoughts might be on a potential community merge. I’m thinking the benefits would be something like: A) easier for users to find; more consolidation, B) userbase would no longer be much of an limitation, C) the larger community could certainly benefit from your extensive dedication to bot-feeding fresh content.

I guess it might be quite rude for a newbie like me to suggest something like this, and I apologise if it came across that way, but I felt it worth throwing the idea out there for better or worse. Right then, cheers.