Community Meta Discussion

Hello! We just received notice about the TTRPG network and we federated our instance with yours.

I'll try to explain:

1. People create servers such as ttrpg.network.
2. Each server can host their own communities, such as !rpg@ttrpg.network
3. However servers are not isolated. You can use one single account to participate in communities on any server.

That is how I'm able to write this comment from a completely different server.

You have three different timelines:

1. Subscribed (communities you're subscribed to, whether on your account's server (local) or on other servers (remote).
2. Local (only posts on local communities)
3. All (all posts from communities your server knows to exist)

Tip: switch your default ordering from "Active" to "Hot". I feel it gives better results.

The only tricky part to getting started, especially at a very new instance like ttrpg.network is community discovery. Your server won't know what communities exist out there unless a user searches for them.

You can do this by going to https://lemmyverse.net/communities and following any communities you like! To do so go to the search page (magnifying glass) and copy/past or type the name of a remote community. For example say you want to subscribe to [!nostupidquestions@lemmy.world](/c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world). Simply copy paste that in the search box (including the exclamation mark). It might take a couple of seconds or require a refresh, but your server (ttrpg.network) will discover this new community and make it available to all other users on your server. You can also click on it and in the sidebar click on the "subscribe" button to join it like you'd join a subreddit.

And that's pretty much it.