Hey, everyone reddit is going through a tizzy and with a blackout being proposed on the subreddit of pathfinder2.E I was wondering If this could be a place for people to start moving too?

  • PriorProject@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    There’s a few potential directions from which to answer this question:

    • This community is a fine place to discuss pathfinder 2e things. And in that respect at least it’s similar to /r/Pathfinder2e.
    • Lemmy.ml is not a great instance that suggest new Lemmy users to create an account on, as it’s gotten overloaded with the influx of new users and adding more accounts there is disproportionately likely to get the instance into performance problems. See https://lemmy.ml/post/1147770 for details. Instead recommend folks to pick an instance to join that currently has less than 500 monthly users from https://join-lemmy.org/instances.
    • No matter what instance someone joins, they can subscribe to this community which is homed on lemmy.ml, and federation will allow them to read and post comments on this community irrespective of what Lemmy instance they have an account on. Well, almost no matter what instance they choose. They should check lemmy.ml/instances/ to ensure the instance they’re about to join is federated with Lemmy.ml, but almost all are.
    • The /r/Pathfinder2e mods haven’t made any statements about the API changes or 3rd party apps. There’s little chance of them supporting a mass migration of the whole community anytime soon (it’s also not clear that the Lemmy ecosystem would gracefully handle that many people joining together). This is best thought of as an independent Pathfinder community that likely shares some people overlap with the subreddit (for now at least, I’m in both).

    Maybe this gives you a few ways to think about your personal interaction here vs /r/Pathfinder2e, and ideas about what you’d want to suggest to friends or folks you like to chat about pf2e with.

      • PriorProject@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Also I didn’t realize that lemmy.ml had a pathfinder community and honestly thought I found the https://pathfinder.social/ community…

        FYI, communities without a server in their name are on your local server. So for you, Pathfinder2e would really be Pathfinder2e@lemmy.ml, because your account is on lemmy.ml. If I saw a Pathfinder2e community, it would be Pathfinder2e@lemmy.world, since that’s where my account is.

        Remote communities have their server-name shown, so for me this community shows up clearly as Pathfinder2e.lemmy.ml since it’s a remote community for me. For both of us, a pathfinder.social community will be clearly marked as such since that’s not either of our home instances. You may have to search for !communityName@pathfinder.social to add the remote communities to lemme.ml’s community browser if you’re the first person to search them. Remote subs don’t show up until someone looks for them.

        Having an account on lemmy.ml I think makes it easy to get confused about these things since so many of the big subs are local for you. I had to grapple with remote communities and federation immediately because I joined my server when it was like 2d old and it had almost no local communities except the ones admins use for announcements.

        Anyhow, good luck and see you here and here and in the pathfinder.social communities.

      • PriorProject@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Oh, wow, that must be brand new. Yeah, if someone is setting up a pathfinder focused instance with granular sub-communities that are well moderated, that could very easily overtake this community as the most popular pathfinder space.

        I wouldn’t worry about posting here (or other lemmy.ml communities) overwhelming the server. I’ve seen recent posts where the admins say posts/comments aren’t the problem, it’s users joining too fast and browsing too much. So this is still a fine place to chat PF2e… though I’m definitely gonna go check out pathfinder.social and hopefully it takes off. This has not been very active.

  • Barbarian@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Definitely yes on lemmy in general, definitely no to lemmy.ml. Pick a server you like the rules & admin for, maybe ask the admin directly, and direct everyone to that server. That way you can also host the PF2E community on that server.

    Things are already getting way too centralized on lemmy.ml, we need to spread out a bit

    • fruitywelsh@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Thought I was hitting the pf2e community on https://pathfinder.social/ tbh agreed on the spreading out. Trying to find the balance between needing more sysads for communities that want their own spaces and finding servers that are inclusive to the subs and also not overloaded is tricky. Any suggestions to help with that?