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The Glyph Exchange mods have confirmed to me that they have no interest in restarting on this website. Not because of anything against Lemmy, but because doing it a 3rd time would be overwhelming for them.
The Coordinate Exchange is the old one run by a mod who did nothing to build the subreddit, then returned after 4 years and kicked out all the mods who actually built the subreddit. If that mod started one here, I would not support it, since his actions are almost like a scaled-down version of Reddit's actions.
So, if we want a Glyph Exchange here, someone will have to volunteer to run it. A lot of people have expressed a desire to see the old fractured Reddit NMS community unified into a single community on Lemmy, and I think that might be wise too. Especially since Lemmy relies on a search function rather than flairs.
This may be a silly question, and maybe more so because of my casual playstyle 'cause I think I used glyphs someone else found like twice, but do people really enjoy picking up ships, multi-tools, companions, and all that stuff that other people have found? I kind of get it, like maybe you really want a gold exotic guppy or something. It's just, the exotic I have now is the first one I found because it feels special that I found it. My living ship is the one that I happened to get on the planet I happened to be on at that stage of the quest. I feel attached to it. I just wouldn't feel the same about a ship I got because I followed a set of instructions outside the game. That can't be a rare position to take right? Maybe it is though. Maybe playing on Nintendo Switch where I don't actually encounter other players makes things like trading glyphs feel like meta-gaming instead of running into someone who's just saying "check out this cool thing I found!"
Tracking down the exact color ship with whatever specific components in an S class doesn't do it for me. My view may evolve over time, and I can see how being able to search up exactly what I want is almost something that almost has to exist in an infinite procedurally generated environment. It's just not something I feel like I need ya' know?
I can't speak for everyone, but personally I enjoy both finding things myself and using glyphs shared by others. As I see it, they are simply two different kinds of "play" that NMS enables. I have a "Batman" themed Interceptor that someone else shared which amuses me, but -- like you -- I often default to an exotic that I happened upon myself. (Unfortunately, I can't share the location of that particular exotic, because I didn't know anything about glyph sharing at the time, and now I have no idea where I found it.)
If you don't get any pleasure out of one mode of play, no big deal. Just enjoy the journey!
I liked picking up other people's finds early on. Now I have a good collection of my own finds, the hunt and share is more satisfying. Sometimes it even helps to shape my play goals. E.g. I might spend a while searching for specifically cat-like fauna and share a curated bunch.