rglullis

level-up zone seems pretty dead to me

It's not dead, it's in a catch-22. It's not open to users, so there is no way (yet) for users to create communities there without going through me. I want to find a solution for this on this summer so that I don't become a bottleneck.

there’s only one mod who I have no experience with.

That would be me. I'm the one running the topic-specific instances. Nice to meet you.

If ttrpg.network doesn't seem suitable to you, I can create a community on level-up.zone and make you a moderator.

I'd rather have communities in instances that are topic specific, that's all. It is easier for discovery and easier to explain to newcomers.

Still, which instance looks more adequate?

There is a whole instance for that at https://ttrpg.network/

A lot of your problems woild go away if you stopped browsing by all....

It's not a federation issue, just that the community was running the alien.top mirroring system and I stopped it.

Regarding "why I do not join you instead": Nothing against you or lemmy.zip, I just do not want to contribute to communities that are on non topic-specific instances.

I can give you all the moderation powers and full control over the community at the topic-specific instance if you want. Also, my ADAPT project is very close to achieve API-parity with Lemmy, and this summer I am planning to convert the topic-specific instances to it. This will mean I will be able to add new features and make the work for content curation and promotion easier.

Yes, it was one of the alien.top targets. Still, better to use a topic-specific instance that already exists for 3 years than bootstrapping yet-another community.

If you'd rather join forces, take a look at !watches@style.land

I'll be interested in following this thread. Some customers of mine are tired of Pixelfed thousand little papercuts and are considering dropping entirely. Even one photographer preferred to run their own Mastodon instance to avoid dealing with Pixelfed's eternal beta status. I might spend some time this weekend figuring out how difficult it would to deploy Vernissage.

Best person to answer this is @mariusor@metalhead.club

True, you'll need an activity object whose actor is the same as the original post creator to indicate the answer is accepted. The point still stands, though: the ActivityStreams vocabulary already has what's needed to enable this funcionality.