I've never been a Reddit user, but I'm interested in giving Lemmy a shot and I was excited to see a dedicated Pathfinder instance, so thanks for that! I'm active on Mastodon (dice.camp) so I love that I can follow "communities" and users of Lemmy and have them show in my Mastodon feed. Then I don't have to check as many sites directly.
I look forward to the success of pathfinder.social.
Hey, really glad to have found this community. I hope it can grow successfully.
Out of interest, have you tried contacting the Reddit /r/Pathfinder_RPG and /r/Pathfinder2e moderators? They might be willing to work with you to help grow this community by providing moderation guidance and via an official partnership.
That's a great idea. I had thought about posting in one of their announcement posts, but messaging them directly might be a better route.
Hey there @SenseiRat@pathfinder.social , just posting to say hi and thanks for hosting. I was browsing the list of instances and was so happy to see a Pathfinder-aligned option.
Thank you for joining; happy to have you here and happy to be able to provide something back to an awesome community.
Hi! Dunno if you recognize me from our small chats the other day, SenseiRat. I've decided to migrate here, both to have a curated local feed of stuff I care about but also because .world was becoming a little too big (and decentralization is the point, after all!) and unmoderated for my liking (started being defederated by other instances and everything...), hopefully that's ok!
Are there any plans on hosting a Matrix server or Mastodon/Clackey instance to go along with the Lemmy? Mastodon has dice.camp (which I wish was Clackey, the interface for it is a bit better), I suppose, but we're sorely missing a Matrix for TTRPGs/Pathfinder - the public ones I could find, at least, were months-long dead with no members in it unfortunately.
I know there's the PF2e Discord, but with Discord's recent changes and all of the stuff with Reddit I've started to really favor federated alternatives.
I could put up a Matrix, I'm not sure when I'll get to work on it, and I have some cleanup work I need to do on this instance, but I might be able to look at it on Monday.
For Mastodon/Clackey, I use Mastodon for my other fediverse account, which is more public facing and doesn't have anything TTRPG related (all connected to this account), so I wasn't thinking about setting it up, but I might consider putting one up, sometime after the Matrix instance goes up.
There's no rush! I was just curious if you had any plans on placing down other formats in case other platforms struggle or people have preferences for other formats of discussion, mostly trying to get a feeler. Only do it if you want to ^^
So I checked out Calckey this morning and it looks really nice. I'll add both to my list of projects.
Looking forward to checking this spot out, I got sold on Mastodon when the bird site went cuckoo, and TTRPGs are one of my main draws to Reddit, so maybe this is perfect timing?
Glad to have you as part of the community!
Can I humbly request that this instance blocks Lemmygrad?
Normally I would say that it would be up to the community and make a post about it (I'm not trying to be a dictator) to let the people who use this community decide.
However, in reviewing the modlogs and talking to a couple of other admins/mods that I know, the behavior of at least a portion of their members does not fit the rules of this community, nor does it align with the views of Paizo, so it is blocked moving forward.
I am happy and available to discuss this decision if anyone has comments, questions, concerns, or complaints.
ETA: I did review the reports and another mod had resolved them before I saw them; just wanted to make it known that I am watching those, even if I can't be around to handle them all the time (shameless plug for looking for mods advertisement).