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Experiances finding a group on the fediverse
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We should really get !lfg@lemmy.world going
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !lfg@lemmy.world
Thank you robot
That's like the one thing I still go to Reddit for. Not that I'm LFG that often. I think finding groups is one of the areas where Lemmy's lower user count is a con. Making a good group is hard even with the huge number of people on Reddit
My only experience in this area was back when I was using reddit. It seemed that most tables expected everyone to use Discord (or some other closed system), so I stopped looking.
I wonder if fediverse folks would be more likely to use tools like Mumble, Matrix, and Foundry.
IMO playing games is not the hill to die on for FOSS. Just go where the people want to go. Discord is a great tool for playing games online with friends and most will already know what to do with it. Besides, Foundry isn't FOSS and you're talking about using that (which is good, Foundry is the best!)
This is not about FOSS. (As you could have deduced from my mention of Foundry.)
It's about services like Discord collecting and owning our words, our voices, our stories, our communities.
It's also about us retaining access to those things, and having agency over our personal information. Discord has been known to lock people out of their accounts if they don't hand over their phone numbers or photo IDs, for example.
There are perfectly good tools available that serve their users, rather than exploiting us for the benefit of corporations, and I choose to use them.
(It's also nice that Mumble has superior voice quality, which I find helpful to role playing, although that's not its main advantage IMHO.)
Okay, so just use Discord for this one thing. Nobody is saying you need to turn over your life to them. I use Discord for my game and basically nothing else. I don't give them any personal info. It's just a platform to voice call my D&D group because it's something I know they all have. All of my players use it more than me and I don't care. They can give as much info to Discord as they want.
And on the subject of getting banned/locked out, I'll cross that bridge if I get to it. No point in discounting an option for something that doesn't affect the majority of its users. I've never encountered them trying to lock me out unless I hand over photo ID
Okay, so just use Discord for this one thing.
No thanks.
I am in the EST timezone
Which country?
Following, also looking for a game. Haven’t played D&D for forty years (AD&D), not sure where to start.
I'm in canada, currently on the east coast
this post was submitted on 27 Nov 2023
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