Seedling (she/they)

I’d probably join, but also I feel like I’m in 5 different rpg communities that don’t get a lot of posts.

Just throwing this out there, but what if we had like weekly themed threads for different types of games or something?

That’s basically how federated software has to work. Without defederation, running federated software becomes unusable. Either you get overrun by spammers or you become legally liable for illegal content from other servers if you don’t do anything about it (the beehaw admins mentioned someone posting child porn as being one reason for defederation). Lemmy is clearly in its early days but this kind of thing will become way more common, as it is on more mature fediverse platforms.

Email providers are a good example of federated software. They have to make sure nobody is sending spam or malware or they will get federated, and they can be very aggressive about that.

Ultimately if you don’t want defederation to ever happen, you want a centralized system run by a single organization. Those are your options.

Or you can have the government step in and have a very highly regulated system like for telephony, where almost nobody gets to run an instance, which seems unlikely in this case.

I haven’t looked at that one yet, but I’m waiting on the kickstarter for issue 2!

I think you can ignore the “pending” thing.

I did just learn that if you’re the first one on your server to subscribe to a community, you’ll only see new posts from that point forward and not old ones

I just discovered !osr@lemm.ee which seems NSR friendly!

Itch is great, I’ll second that recommendation. It also has some really indie stuff you can’t find anywhere else. I think it’s DRM free in the way GOG is, in that the platform doesn’t support DRM. A good number of games are free, and some are open source as well.

Also it has tabletop RPGs!

Yeah, I think one thing I like about it is that the distance between people making things and people playing the game is not that far. Lots of hacks and creativity, lots of sharing ideas, a good amount of creative commons stuff too.

I’m working on something for the A Town, A Forest, A Dungeon game jam and it’s been cool to see a lot of other people making something for the first time for the jam

Oh yeah, Vaults of Vaarn looks really cool, there have been a number of great science fantasy settings recently (ultra Violet grasslands is the other one that comes to mind). I haven’t gotten to play either though.

I have a weekly game of Blades in the Dark right now! It’s maybe actually my longest running campaign - stretching the limits of the system - also we’re playing as cultists

there are some, but they tend to quickly become spam and nazi instances. I’m guessing even those ones defederate from the instances that only serve malware though

Hi everyone! I was born in Canada, live in the US, and Asian and mixed race. I’m generally a little vague about my real world identity online though beyond that. You can find me here on Mastodon: https://dice.camp/@seedling although it’s basically all my TTRPG stuff.

oh I hadn’t thought of doing that, but that’s a great idea!

I really like Mastodon, so much so that I have several accounts for different purposes. You do need to invest a bit of time into following a good number of people who post stuff you like, though. I was pretty active on Twitter and now I’m pretty active on Mastodon and I like Mastodon better, but I had to spend a little time searching hashtags for people posting cool stuff.

One thing that I haven’t seen anyone mention is moderation - your experience will be better with a well-moderated, well-run server, otherwise you’ll have issues with spam and maybe worse. Generally a medium-sized server based around a subject of interest or a geographic location works well, where the admins are actively involved in the community.