join the communities!
join the communities!
FYI, i see a lot of users joining, but not many people are actually subscribing to the communities. Subscribing to the communities you like will help them grow within the fediverse and be easier to discover!
Where can we suggest new communities? I'm surprised at the lack of Pathfinder 2e, Fate and Genesys communities at the least 🙃
Also, I think the server may need an update?
The server is a version behind but the latest version temporarily removed captchas which can help a bit with spam accounts, so that might be why the admins are waiting to update. Still, I'm pretty sure most Android apps only support the latest version so it would be nice if we can update sooner rather than later!
this is correct; we're holding off until 0.8.1 when they plan to reimplement captchas. I know there's a few release candidates bumping around, so it hopefully shouldn't be too long until it's released.
I’m surprised at the lack of Pathfinder 2e
There's actually a dedicated lemmy isntance for pathfinder, pathfinder.social; while i'm not necessarily against having a community here, i didnt know if there would be as much of a need consider that.
Since Lemmy is kind of like a bunch of small separate Reddits, its very possible that a community you are looking for already exists; its just on a different Lemmy server. But fear not! You can be the person to connect it so everyone here can see it and start to interact with it!
Use this site to search for other communities that might not yet be on this instance: https://lemmyverse.net/communities
You should find a good handful of communities around D&D, Pathfinder, Fate, etc. When you find one you are interested in, you can visit it directly, but since you probably don't have an account on that server, you won't be able to post or comment there until you connect it to ttrpg.network by subscribing to it.
Mouse over the link (it should pop up with "Click to Copy"), and copy it. Then come back here, open the search page, and search for the link you just copied. You should get a result that you can click on, but notice this time you are viewing it through ttrpg.network, so you can interact with it with your account here. Click "subscribe", and everyone here will also start to see posts from that community.
Congrats! You have just made one link in the Fediverse, connecting everyone here to a community somewhere else.
I get a 404 error: https://ttrpg.network/c/wargaming@lemmy.world
You can see a list of the communities here: https://ttrpg.network/communities
I'm kinda waiting for other game communities to get created. The few systems represented here aren't interesting to me.
You can subscribe to lemmy communities outside of ttrpg.network.
For example, you found this interesting https://pathfinder.social/c/pf2general
Follow the instruction on the blue block on the right:
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !pf2general@pathfinder.social
I'm still not 100% on how this protocol works.
How can ttrpg.network also subscribe to pathfinder.social? Does the lemmy network aggregate on all these links on the backend?
Also, is there a front end that can link all these different communities on one page?
EDIT: The upvotes being blue are going to confuse the hell out of me for a while.
Yeah same. I mostly play Exalted, Lancer, and smaller indie games, and there's not really a community for any of that
Joined from another instance and just subbed to the Meta Community in hopes it would make it easier to find communities.
Hi! Great job with the server.
It will be interesting how to manage duplicate communities across instances. I have made Dungeon World, Wanderhome, and Fighting Fantasy communities - the DW is a duplicate, as the one on this server didn't come up when I searched initially (it does now).
I have reached out to @Primarch to link up and figure things out, but assume this may be a bigger issue as the platform grows.
Be interesting to see what a good approach might look like as things evolve!
Yeah, unfortunately i dont have any answers there. Obviously i have no ways to influence other instances, but it will be interesting to see what happens in the future as lemmy continues to expand and grow. I would suspect it will probably play out like reddit, where there are duplicate communities (albeit with different names on reddit) where one gets far more popular than the other (say r/dnd vs r/dungeonsanddragons) and people naturally gravitate towards the one they prefer, the larger community or the smaller one.
Hello, Lemmy newb here. How do I create a community? For instance, I am looking to add a Blades in the Dark community to this instance.
Currently, we're set up so that only admins can create communities, but we could also be configured to allow anyone to create them. For the moment, we've opted to go this route while we're starting up, but we might revisit that decision later and change it. That said, i can create a community for you if you want, what do you want the /c/ name (like a /r/ for a sub on reddit) to be?