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Experiances finding a group on the fediverse (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works to c/dnd@lemmy.world
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I've been trying for a bit to get together a group or find one to join here with no success. I've posted in two communities here on lemmy, replied to a few peoples posts, and each time it seems that I and the others don't get enough people together to start a game.

My question is towards others experiance in the fediverse with getting together a group as a DM or a player.

Have you been able to do so?

If so, what's your experiance been? Where did you find success?

Is mastadon or another service a better place to look?

Any experiance or story is appreciated.

Alternatively, if you've been looking yourself and have had the same experiance, I'd love to have you at my table. I am in the EST timezone though

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[–] ono@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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!)

[–] ono@lemmy.ca 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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.)

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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