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The lemmyverse and you! An educational post (ttrpg.network)
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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!

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[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] dwgill@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 year ago

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!

[–] trouser_mouse@ttrpg.network 4 points 1 year ago

Completely agree - I set up some communities on .world and have spoken to others who did the same.

I reached out to the owner of Dungeon World here to discuss what we should do, and we are going to figure that out - the community here is far more active so it may be a case of repointing or keep both etc who knows. All very nice conversation, nothing rude just people trying to figure things out together!

The kind of behaviour being seen where people are being asked to move here is what happened with Android and left a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths as it was a large existing community shut down by one person. It also can't be good for the community as a whole if people are rude, harassing, etc and that kind of behaviour will make people go elsewhere and rightly so. I don't understand why people are like that.

There are issues with having duplicate communities as well as benefits, but being a dick about it isn't a great look.

The TTRPG community on Reddit could be pretty hostile and rude, I was hoping here it could be different! My own experience has been okay - first impressions from some other people hasn't been great.

[–] Dalimey@ttrpg.network 4 points 1 year ago

I fully support this. This is not a zero sum game, they are not "competition" or whatever you may think, and other instances/communities have all the same right to exist and thrive as we do.

[–] Syncrossus@ttrpg.network 3 points 1 year ago

The fact that this post is necessary is surprising and unfortunate.

[–] ahdok@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have a question about "the fediverse" and crossposting - I know that mastodon servers use "fediverse" as a term as well. Is there any compatibility between Lemmy and Mastodon content? (e.g. can I crosspost a Lemmy post into Mastodon or vice-versa?) - It would be really cool if I could quickly port my mastodon posts here for when the content is relevant.

[–] eerongal@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, mastodon posts can show up on lemmy instances, and lemmy posts make their way to mastodon. I'm not 100% sure how that interaction works, but I've seen a few people post here from mastodon already

[–] ahdok@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 year ago

This is very interesting. I shall have to figure out how this works

[–] Sandra@idiomdrottning.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mention @ communityname @ttrpg.network in a top level post on Mastodon (or, some servers use an ! in place of the first of the two @ characters) and it'll show up on that community. The first line will be the headline, then leave a blank line, then continue your post. You currently cannot make link posts (yeah, I know 🤦🏻‍♀️).

I'm not sure but mentioning the community in a post deeper in a thread probably won' work, I don't know.

To reply to a post or comment on here from Mastodon, copy the url (it should look like https://ttrpg.network/comment/12345 or https://ttrpg.network/post/12345) and paste into into the "search" box on your instance and "search" for that url. You might have to reload, sometimes it's a li'l slow at pulling it in.

[–] ahdok@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there a way to follow a community on lemmy within my mastodon feed? I tried searching the network./community and got nothing.

[–] Sandra@idiomdrottning.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, let's say you want to follow /c/community_meta from Mastodon. In that case, search for @community_meta@ttrpg.network (or, some servers instead use [!community_meta@ttrpg.network](/c/community_meta@ttrpg.network)) and you'll find the community "as if it were a user". Sometimes it's a li'l slow or glitchy and you need to try it again a few times

Follow that "user" and you'll get the posts into your Mastodon and can interact with the posts, reply to them and such. Let us know whether this works, I'm sure others are curious, too! 💁🏻‍♀️

[–] ahdok@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I did find the community I wanted to follow, but:

It doesn't load any posts.

I'll give it a day to see if it's just being slow.

[–] Sandra@idiomdrottning.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope it works! I haven't tried following any communities, maybe I should.

[–] chris@s.the-brannons.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Sandra @ahdok My attempts to search for
communities in Pleroma all proved futile.

[–] chris@s.the-brannons.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Sandra @ahdok
I figured out my issue. It helps when I search for accounts,
and not for statuses.
I followed a community; hopefully posts will start showing up in my timeline.

[–] ahdok@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 year ago

While I have followed an active community (mastodon''s regular desktop interface) - it doesn't seem to pull any posts from it.

[–] MouseKeyboard@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 year ago

The whole Fediverse must learn of our peaceful ways! By force!

[–] Sandra@idiomdrottning.org 1 points 1 year ago

Multiple communities across the fediverse for the same topic is a feature, and not a bug!

Yes! Part of why Usenet was so unsustainable was them only wanting one community for each topic. If communities are centralized things won't scale very well.

And, since it's federated, you can use your account to reply to posts across these communities while still having your main fave places you hang out at.