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Reddit sub to lemmy migration? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey, everyone reddit is going through a tizzy and with a blackout being proposed on the subreddit of pathfinder2.E I was wondering If this could be a place for people to start moving too?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

All great points! Also I didn't realize that lemmy.ml had a pathfinder community and honestly thought I found the https://pathfinder.social/ community, I do not want to over burden this instance either.

[–] PriorProject 5 points 1 year ago

Oh, wow, that must be brand new. Yeah, if someone is setting up a pathfinder focused instance with granular sub-communities that are well moderated, that could very easily overtake this community as the most popular pathfinder space.

I wouldn't worry about posting here (or other lemmy.ml communities) overwhelming the server. I've seen recent posts where the admins say posts/comments aren't the problem, it's users joining too fast and browsing too much. So this is still a fine place to chat PF2e... though I'm definitely gonna go check out pathfinder.social and hopefully it takes off. This has not been very active.

[–] PriorProject 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Also I didn't realize that lemmy.ml had a pathfinder community and honestly thought I found the https://pathfinder.social/ community...

FYI, communities without a server in their name are on your local server. So for you, Pathfinder2e would really be [email protected], because your account is on lemmy.ml. If I saw a Pathfinder2e community, it would be [email protected], since that's where my account is.

Remote communities have their server-name shown, so for me this community shows up clearly as Pathfinder2e.lemmy.ml since it's a remote community for me. For both of us, a pathfinder.social community will be clearly marked as such since that's not either of our home instances. You may have to search for [[email protected]](/c/[email protected]) to add the remote communities to lemme.ml's community browser if you're the first person to search them. Remote subs don't show up until someone looks for them.

Having an account on lemmy.ml I think makes it easy to get confused about these things since so many of the big subs are local for you. I had to grapple with remote communities and federation immediately because I joined my server when it was like 2d old and it had almost no local communities except the ones admins use for announcements.

Anyhow, good luck and see you here and here and in the pathfinder.social communities.

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

Will external communities only show up in the communities search space if someone else has already mentioned them?

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

Yeah, https://lemmy.ml/communities/listing_type/All/page/1 is populated by communities that:

Exist on an instance that lemmy.ml federates with (the federation list for lemmyl is at https://lemmy.ml/instances if you want to see what servers are on the list) AND a user has interacted with the community, usually by searching with the bang or url syntax from the communities page.
OR if it's a local community. Then it shows up automatically on creation.

So the way to join is to...

Visit https://pathfinder.social/communities, right-click on a community you want to join and copy it's url.
Then go to https://lemmy.ml/communities/ and search that url. Weirdly nothing gets returned, I don't know why. But you DO need to conduct this seemingly broken search (or someone does, once anyone searches, the community gets added to the list).
Then search for some keyword in the name of the community (like "pathfinder" or "off topic"), and NOW the community from pathfinder social will show up.

I know this procedure is feckin weird and makes no sense, but you need that first url search that returns nothing to prime things... then the second search will start to work and you can click the join button to subscribe. Like I said, it's pretty rare to have to do this on lemmy.ml since it's a big instance and people have already searched for most communities and so they're in your list. But as a very new and pretty niche set of communities, you may be the first subscriber to these communities on pathfinder.social and so have to go through the searching dance.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I didn't even know that was a thing. Subscribed!