My initial thought is definitely yes for the Steam Machine, and maybe yes for the Steam Frame.

All devices are Valve made hardware running steamOS, so I would think a lot of the discussions/content would apply to Steam Deck. This also isn’t a super busy community, so I wouldn’t be that worried about Steam Deck specific content getting buried.

The Steam Frame is a bit more iffy than the Steam Machine though, there’s a lot of experience differences between the Deck/Machine and a VR device, so there will be larger differences. Also the Frame has ARM hardware and has to use an additional x86 to ARM compatibility layer for games running on it, so we’ll probably see some unique compatibility bugs for it.

Overall though I just want to hear everyone else’s opinions on it.

  • Björn@swg-empire.de
    1541·
    5 天前

    I’d say yes. If the volume becomes overwhelming new communities can easily be created.

    • makeshiftreaper@lemmy.worldEnglish
      53·
      5 天前

      Agreed, the fediverse is small enough now that living aggregate communities are preferable to dead specific ones. Especially because everyone hates posting something, getting their post removed and being told to go post in another very similar community they didn’t know existed. As you said, if it becomes a problem you can just spin off

      • Auster@thebrainbin.org
        7·
        5 天前

        The problem can also be a positive, so that communities for more specific niches can be created, or to have alternatives for already existing ones with different management philosophies.

  • DaTingGoBrrr@lemmy.world
    34·
    4 天前

    I am completely fine with having this community for steam hardware. I don’t think it would be beneficial to have 10 smaller communities instead of one big. Lemmy is not a huge platform at the moment

  • Auster@thebrainbin.org
    92·
    5 天前

    Personally, I like the idea of becoming more of a “Steam Hardwares” community, as them being all kinda niche but close in scope, they shouldn’t conflict with each other nor turn the community into a too generalist one.

    • Lfrith@lemmy.ca
      7·
      5 天前

      Yeah, community being split up might just lead to inactivity for certain hardware if it isn’t popular enough. There’s enough overlap with SteamOS that I think being all in one is the best route. Maybe if lemmy gets way more users in the future then splitting up discussion to dedicated hardware communities might be an option, but for now better to be one.

  • Nima@leminal.spaceEnglish
    711·
    5 天前

    I’d love to see them included, honestly. it seems they’re all part of the same family.

  • HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world
    45·
    5 天前

    Absolutely. I would rather have one great community instead of 3 hyper specific communities. It just needs to have flags like [steamdeck] [ steammachine] [steamframe] Or even shorthand sd, sm, sf.

  • njm1314@lemmy.world
    31·
    5 天前

    Yes. Anything to grow communities. The fediverse is not in the restrictive limiting of communities time in its evolution. The fediverse is in the we need more numbers phase. You need a lot more people to be worried about this kind of thing. Right now you just need more people making more post and making more comments.

  • Nico198X@europe.pub
    10·
    4 天前

    Yes.

    Machine and Deck run on the same OS anyway. they are the same minus the hardware differences.

  • Creat@discuss.tchncs.de
    20·
    5 天前

    Yes, Assuming that renaming a community without creating a new one isn’t possible.

    The best way would be to just rename to “steamhardware”, but losing everyone in the process is certainly not worth the rename for clarity.

  • BananaTrifleViolin@piefed.worldEnglish
    21·
    5 天前

    Yes; it makes no sense to have multiple communities when the Steam Machine and Steam Frame are so similar to the Steam Deck. It may be that in the future it makes sense to split out topics if their isn’t overlap, but I’d say the community isn’t flooded with content and there is a lot of overlap between these topics that will benefit everyone.

  • mrfriki@lemmy.world
    21·
    5 天前

    Definitely yes, they all run Steam OS and all 3 device are very interchangeable in what they offer. Plus there’s not that much people to properly support 3 different communities.

  • Clot@lemmy.zipEnglish
    9·
    4 天前

    Yes, altho I wouldve liked the name of this community to then changed to steam hardware (I dont know if thats even possible) but it works like this too…

  • unmagical@lemmy.ml
    19·
    5 天前

    I like the idea of having a single place where Valve’s hardware can be discussed, but the current name will make discoverability of such a community difficult. If the name cannot be changed, then I’d rec just leaving this one for only steam decks.

    • SatyrSack@quokk.auEnglish
      44·
      5 天前

      This is where my opinion currently lies. On one hand, the fediverse (and this community) is so small that having discussion for the whole Steam hardware ecosystem in one place makes sense. On the other hand, the name of this community is “Steam Deck”. The point of this community should be discussion about the Steam Deck. I wouldn’t want people posting unrelated news and help requests here.

      I think the only way to change the name of the community is by setting a display name, but I do not think that would be sufficient for this purpose. I think the best route of action would be to create a new community called /c/SteamHardware or something. Or just use one of the multiple existing /c/Steam communities.