Hi all!
Another post from me! This time i wanted to talk about the lemmyverse and more broadly the fediverse.
We have a previous post talking about some tips and tricks with lemmy over here.
However, it was recently brought to my attention that some users of ttrpg.network might be going out in to other TTRPG communities in other fediverse instances, and either harassing users or asking them to close down and consolidate to here!
I don't consider this ok. I would please ask that you respect the rules and etiquette of other communities and instances.
Multiple communities across the fediverse for the same topic is a feature, and not a bug!
There's many reasons this is good, however, chiefly among them - No one person or team can be all controlling on a subject. If you don't like what I, a mod here, a mod/admin on lemmy.world, etc. do, you can merely subscribe to a sister community on a different instance! You can also subscribe individually to all communities covering the same subject and create yourself a mega-feed of all the communities across the lemmiverse. Again, this is considered this a feature, not a bug.
So if you're going in to other communities around the fediverse, please be respectful, nice, and participate in good faith! Doing this will actually help this community grow as it reflects well upon ourselves here, and seeing your username being from this instance will drive extra traffic to us!
Remember you can cross post!
If you're looking at a post, it's the small icon with two squares. If you click it, you can send it over to another community on any instance. Not only does that community get the content (which is good for everyone), but there's also a "cross posted to blah" link on both ends that lists the other community. Also, if people are subscribed to both communities and using the web interface (rather than Jerboa), they only see one copy of the post even though it's on two communities.
Of course, don't spam, but to me it seems like a reasonable way to "get the word out" about overlapping communities.
Oh damn, the UI really hides that button; that should be way more prominent in my opinion. I had no idea Lemmy supported that functionality!