I’d just like to take the blame for two separate Imaginary posts here in a row. I posted not realising this would be posted a matter of hours later!

Probably a better word! I’m not sure where I was going with that.

On Connect, the latter works but the former doesn’t. Weirdly if I click on my own username posted upthread, it can’t find me.

Kbin does odd things with links and communities, so I think part of the problem is it has mangled or added some unexpected links when you’ve written the post. However, some of your links in the original post work for me on Lemmy (!freegames@feddit.uk is fine), so you might want to compare them.

I’m not sure why Lemmy uses an exclamation mark for communities when everywhere else uses an @. It would be a lot easier if it used @ then it’s universal for Kbin, Mastodon, Lemmy.

The new communities group suggests to use the format I’ve used in my previous posts (basically /c/community@instance) - this won’t work on Kbin because it uses /m/. It’s better to use @ there as you said.

No problem, have added all the ones I know about.

OK, so will probably miss loads, but try these for starters. Where I’ve found multiple for the same platform the more active ones are nearer the top.

!amiga@sopuli.xyz

!amiga@kbin.social (Kbin)

!amiga@lemmy.sdf.org

!amiga@lemmy.world

!c64@lemmy.world

!commodore64@kbin.social (Kbin)

!c64@sh.itjust.works

!commodore_64@lemmy.ca

!commodore64@lemmy.world

!zxspectrum@lemmy.world

!zxspectrum@kbin.social (Kbin)

!plus4@retrolemmy.com

!dosgaming@retrolemmy.com

!atari@lemmy.sdf.org (Atari 8-bits, can’t find one for the ST)

!lemmings@lemmings.world

!xenoblade@possumpat.io

!fireemblem@lemm.ee

!xcom@lemmy.world

As for platforms, there are a load of retro ones which can be added, not sure if you want to include those?

Hmm, nicedb.org allows signing in through Mastodon, but only Jabberwocky.moe. The other two supported domains are somewhat odd.

This one? https://github.com/neodb-social/neodb Looks interesting.

Firelord is an old one but gorgeous. Chicory is pretty, in a colouring book sort of way. Child of Light and Forgotton Anne have fairly similar aesthetics but are both lovely.

Activating the Super Sheep in Worms DC. It was always “argh, I can’t control this, kaboom I’ve blown up one of my own worms”, but it was fun to try!

I am here for this!

Shame I don’t have a photo of the Guru at Northampton bus station - they used to run their displays from an Amiga.

Apparently mouses is correct for computer mice but I don’t subscribe to that train of thought at all.

!imaginarywitches@lemmy.dbzer0.com

!specialized_instances@kbin.social might be a better place to promote this?

!android@lemdro.id is the big Android one.

Yeah, I’ve never bothered to try to create one with a moderation queue. Seems like too much work!

The bot generally works OK (the problems are more the Pi it runs on has a somewhat flaky wifi connection so sometimes it posts stuff it shouldn’t post, or vice versa, than anything to do with Lemmy)

The Bedfordshire one is something I knocked up to get some content flowing. The sources aren’t the best (lack of RSS feeds on websites these days) but, yes, it posts everything - every day is a slow news day in Beds 😄

Fedia.io (Kbin). With my bot running on Lemmy it made sense to move it so the bot and community were hosted in the same place - the federation wasn’t working reliably.

There’s an open source equivalent at https://codidact.com/