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Curious what made you choose lemmy.zip?
Hey! Mostly the instance description seemed to fit the subject of the community, I felt like my home instance (this is an alt) wasn't quite appropriate haha
Not OP, but on my side
- very transparent and reactive admins, they publish monthly reports to share with the community how things are doing: https://lemmy.zip/post/22004722
- very reliable: https://status.lemmy.zip/status/lemmy
- detailed federation dashboard: https://grafana.lemmy.zip/public-dashboards/bac0acae9cd942f88a65b1a7c94503d2
- updates quickly
- no power tripping admins so far
Also a nice alternative to the big 2: lemmy.world and lemmy.ml
The one potential issue with it is the domain name, as .zip can sometimes be blocked. I asked about it a few days ago, seems that if it happens it's a work issue: https://lemmy.zip/post/23138027
Cool!
What is the biggest esport at the moment? Valorant, Counter Strike?
If going by viewers I can't imagine it's anything other than League of Legends. Which is funny because people tell me it's a fairly shit spectator sport (stale meta, low kills etc).
I was under the impression LoL was losing popularity compared to 20 years ago
!leagueoflegends@lemmy.world is quite quiet
I think its probably just down to the balance of accessiblity to start but devotion required to keep playing, in combination with the very intense monitization that gets put into production and marketing. For comparison:
Something like CS is far more accessible, but has a much larger portion of casual players and has Valve's laissez-faire development/marketing. Valorant is is like CS but even more casual. Dota breeds far more devoted players, but the game is so complex it can't grow, and again, has neither the high production value nor the marketing because Valve. There are games like Fortnite that can compete in scale, but the nature of the game and the focus on fun content over competitve integrity mean that the tournaments are more marketing events than measures of skill.
this post was submitted on 27 Sep 2024
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