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!
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.