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I'm quite new to Lemmy, one of the reddit refugees. I used reddit to mostly browse mapmaking, ttrpg's, adventure writing, D&D etc. Would love a little guidance on where I could find a nice community like that here on Lemmy.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This 404s from Kbin. I thought I'd be able to see other federated content?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's a slightly different syntax for accessing it from kbin: go to all magazines tab and type [email protected] to access the the community.

Edit: on kbin we use the @ character instead of lemmy's ! Exclamation character:

@ ttrpgs @ lemmy.blahaj.zone

And write it all together:

@ttrpgs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For some reason kbin uses @ instead of !
Try @[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Pathfinder.social is where I joined from, you could check it out!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The community browsers list a bunch of results for "dungeons", "dnd", and "rpg".

https://lemmyverse.net/communities

https://browse.feddit.de/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Same idea, but I prefer this one:

https://lemmyverse.net/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do I have to make a new account for each different instance? Because it tells me to log in again... I guess I'm not 100% understanding how this lemmy works, and it feels annoying to have to make an account for so many different pages

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You dont need to make multiple accounts no.

The analogy people are using is email. If I have a gmail account and you have a yahoo account, we can still communicate between each other, but I cant use my gmail account to log in on yahoo's website. Lemmy works in a similar way. You make one account on your instance of choice (I see you chose beehaw.org) and then you can subscribe and otherwise interact with things and people on other instances (servers).

Here's how you can do that. Go to your server's search bar, and type in [email protected] for example. Give it a few seconds and it should pop up as an option to click on it. Once that happens you can subscribe to it from your instance and interact with it normally.

I hope this helps, and if you have any other questions dont hesitate to ask me or anyone else. Most people are quite helpful :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is there a better way to crosslink to other communities that would result in links that are clickable from all instances and would lead to the federated version on each instance?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Iirc theyre working on getting something like that set up, but I may be completely wrong and talking out of my rear. As of right now I dont think there is anything like that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The server sidebar has clickable links to external communities, so there's gotta be a way.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This only works if that community is already on your instance I believe. E.g. clicking the link you wrote above leads me to: https://iusearchlinux.fyi/c/[email protected] which doesnt exist yet because [email protected] hasnt been added to my instance. It ends up giving a 404: couldn't find community message.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All of the communities I've subscribed to this way refuse to work properly. Two out of three say the subscription is pending, which means I can't see any of the other comments or sometimes the posts themselves. The third says it's subscribed but still doesn't show any comments. I've searched and some people say to try again & it should work to solve the pending thing, but I haven't had any luck with that. Is it just a server load issue or have I done something wrong? The communities I've subscribed to through the "all" feed (like this one) appear to be fine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

[email protected] as well as the entire instance of Pathfinder.social

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This one gives me a 404 and doesn't come up in search.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

that likely means your instance hasn't federated with lemm.ee or has it blocked, check the block list and if its not blocked search the text "[email protected]" in your community search, it will show not found but if you leave it a second to index it and try again it should work

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks. I guess I was being impatient. It's not the most intuitive interface to have a search come up empty with no indication that I should wait or come back later.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

undefined> [email protected] Yeah I'm also not having a great time on lemmy so far. Everything seems so obtuse...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

/m/[email protected] works.

Edit: Is this just a lemmy/kbin difference that I wasn't aware of? None of the /c/ links work for me while using kbin, but I can change them to /m/ and they work just fine. Does lemmy use /c/ by default?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, and they are already working on fixing the link interpolation on kbin's end.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I also started /m/Battlemaps on kbin.social, come by and contribute some content!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm getting a "429 Too Many Requests" error when registering...

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