With more and more alternatives appearing to Lego which also increase in variety and even surpass at times Lego quality, why focus just on this company for a brick building community? I for example have been badly burned by Lego’s handling of the Mindstorms brand and there are more compatibility broken product lines from Lego.

Is posting other brands alright here? Will it lead to unpleasant conflicts from Lego, if their brand name is used?

  • Lux@lemmy.world
    shield
    M
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    Offbrand bricks are just fine. The reason I picked the Lego name is because everyone knows it. So no worries! If you want to make a specific community for offbrand bricks, I’d be glad to pin it!

    • hikaru755@feddit.de
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      I think this was the right call, discoverability is just so much better than any recombination of “interlocking building bricks” or something. “Lego” is very close to being a generic category name anyway, in my opinion. As long as the community is as small over here as it is right now, splintering it even further wouldn’t be a wise move, I think.

  • Aninjanameddaryll@sopuli.xyz
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    1 year ago

    I dunno, why does everyone blow their nose on a kleenex?

    Lego is eponymous for plastic building blocks. If you call the forum anything else, you aren’t going to be recognizable and easy to find.

    I mean, hell, there’s people that don’t even know there’s actual brands other than lego at all