Where can we suggest new communities? I'm surprised at the lack of Pathfinder 2e, Fate and Genesys communities at the least ๐
Also, I think the server may need an update?
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
Did you access it via the search function here on ttrpg.network? The link you provided won't work until someone searches "!wargaming@lemmy.world" from here and visits it through the link in the search results at least once.
That search does not bring up any results for me...
Are you searching from a web browser? I know the Jerboa for Android app does not correctly search into other instances yet.
When I search from my laptop, this is what I see:
I'm missing that line (and getting an error to upload screenshots). Could there be some permission limitations on this instance?
Very possible. This may be a question for @eerongal. It does indeed look like this instance is stuck an older version of Lemmy as well (17.4; the latest is 18.0 or 18.1 by now), so this may be a bug which requires an update to fix.
Iโm 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.
Oh, thanks! I didn't know, still new to lemmy and how to find things, I just subscribed ๐
not a problem. It's worth noting you can follow communities on other instances, including the pathfinder instance, directly from this instance here, so you don't need to "sign up" on pathfinder.social to use their communities, you can use this account you're using right now!
Yeah, I've figured that part out! Although I'm unsure why I can't find some communities in here? For example, there's a wargaming community on lemmy.world I can't seem to access from inside this instance...
which community? i think lemmy has some weird rules around searching out communities from another instance. If there's no local subscribers or new content pushed from the community, i dont think they'll show up in the search, but i think you can still access them using a direct link, but im not 100% sure. It's one thing i wish they would make a lot easier, honestly...
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 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.
Yes, the networks all "federate" together. Basically they all talk to each other and share information. For the networks to see each other, though, they need to be made aware of each other, which can take a bit of poking around to do.
As for seeing different communities in one page: Yes. Go to the home page of any instance and click on the "all" button at the top (right next to local). There's also a button to only see a feed from communties you are subscribed to (both locally and on other servers)
Edit: and looks like we're already federated with pathfiner.social, so you can see and subscribe to all their communities with your account here. You can just use the search feature at the top to find em.
Gotcha! so the slash c is for community and then if you have a @whatever.tld is a feed from a different "site". Makes sense.
yep, basically. The "/c/" is literally the equal of "/r/" on reddit. If the community is local, then the "@" part can be omitted. So like the dndnext community here is just https://ttrpg.network/c/dndnext
This did not work for me. No results came up.
example search:
now just click pf2general@pathfinder.social , and subscribe.
After this, pathfinder will be listed under communities for everyone, and it's easier to join. https://ttrpg.network/communities/listing_type/All/page/1
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.
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?
Thanks for letting me know! How about c/bladesinthedark Thank you!
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.