I am Loriborn, and I’m the caretaker of The Tabletop Place, a Lemmy instance dedicated to the support of communities and discussion surrounding boardgames, tabletop games, roleplaying games, and all related interests. We have a number of rules you can find on our home page, but more than anything else, we encourage civil discourse and want to maintain a healthy and welcoming environment for our members. I currently also moderate r/frostgrave, and run the Frostgrave.net wiki.
This is going to serve as an introductory post to our community here at The Tabletop Place. Some of you may be joining from some of the subreddits where moderators have graciously allowed us to share the site with. Many of these subreddits should already have communities here on this instance, but if you don’t see your community here, don’t hesitate to ask, and one can be created, with moderators assigned either from its respective original subreddit, or of existing moderation team, if they so desire.
If you are unfamiliar with Lemmy, Federation, or the concept of instancing posts and communities, there are resources available on the official Lemmy website and Github pages that can be found at the bottom of the site.
The best app, at the moment at least, for browsing and posting on Lemmy instances is Jerboa. You may also notice that federation on other communities is currently limited, as those communities, especially larger ones, need to accept The Tabletop Place first, before you’ll be able to accurately see posts and comments. These should come in time as the community’s user count grows.
Additionally, custom avatars and profiles are highly encouraged!
If you are a new user who has joined as a moderator of another community, please mention so in your application, and post here so I can apply moderator status for your applicable communities!
As a new member, what sorts of things can I do to help federate with other instances? I’m passively familiar with mastodon, but a novice when it comes to the fediverse at large. Thanks!
So the general way to federate is pretty straightforward! All you have to do is find a community (similar to a subreddit) you want to join from another instance (website, such as tabletop.place) via somewhere like Google or even Reddit, or some existing lists of subreddit replacements, and once you find that community, say https://lemmy.world/c/selfhosted (which is the “self hosted” community of the instance Lemmy.world, a very popular instance) you open the search icon at the top of our instance, Tabletop.place, and paste the URL of the community into the search field and click search.
Once you search, the page will say that nothing was found, but if you return to the homepage, there will be a population of posts from that community on our “All” page. From there, you can open a post, and subscribe! So long as at least one member of our community is subscribed to a community, our entire instance will see the posts, comments, and upvotes updated in real time in their “All” page, and will be able to comment, post, vote, etc. with those posts as well, or subscribe to the community if they’d like. They can also block the community on their end if they no longer want to see the posts from that community in their “All” feed, but this will not affect federation.
If you’d like to share a community from here, you can usually find places, such as other communities, that allow advertising alternative communities, and you can often post there saying, “hey, tabletop.place has a GURPS community, here’s the link!” so other users from other instances can post in those communities without necessarily having to make an account here.
Finally, if there’s a community you want to see, but can’t find an existing one on the “fediverse”, and it seems related to our core principles, just let me know and I can create one! While we stick to tabletop related topics, we already do have both a Tolkienfans and LEGO analogue, so there’s no hard and fast rule on community creation. We don’t, however, host NSFW communities on tabletop.place, though you are free to use your tabletop.place account to join NSFW communities on other instances so long as they are properly labeled as NSFW on the instance settings and are not egregiously obscene.
If you never want to see NSFW content other users might generate by joining NSFW instances, simply toggle off NSFW in your account settings page.
Do note that if you join a community of an instance that is considered unacceptable, such as an instance dedicated to racism, the federation of that community will be blocked.
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !tabletop_place@tabletop.place
Official community for meta-discussion of The Tabletop Place, such as announcements, rules, and new community discussion.
Hi! Can we get a Warcry community?
For sure! I’ll do that today.
We now have a Warcry community. Feel free to share it with others!
Awesome, thanks!
As a new member, what sorts of things can I do to help federate with other instances? I’m passively familiar with mastodon, but a novice when it comes to the fediverse at large. Thanks!
Hey there!
So the general way to federate is pretty straightforward! All you have to do is find a community (similar to a subreddit) you want to join from another instance (website, such as tabletop.place) via somewhere like Google or even Reddit, or some existing lists of subreddit replacements, and once you find that community, say https://lemmy.world/c/selfhosted (which is the “self hosted” community of the instance Lemmy.world, a very popular instance) you open the search icon at the top of our instance, Tabletop.place, and paste the URL of the community into the search field and click search.
Once you search, the page will say that nothing was found, but if you return to the homepage, there will be a population of posts from that community on our “All” page. From there, you can open a post, and subscribe! So long as at least one member of our community is subscribed to a community, our entire instance will see the posts, comments, and upvotes updated in real time in their “All” page, and will be able to comment, post, vote, etc. with those posts as well, or subscribe to the community if they’d like. They can also block the community on their end if they no longer want to see the posts from that community in their “All” feed, but this will not affect federation.
If you’d like to share a community from here, you can usually find places, such as other communities, that allow advertising alternative communities, and you can often post there saying, “hey, tabletop.place has a GURPS community, here’s the link!” so other users from other instances can post in those communities without necessarily having to make an account here.
Finally, if there’s a community you want to see, but can’t find an existing one on the “fediverse”, and it seems related to our core principles, just let me know and I can create one! While we stick to tabletop related topics, we already do have both a Tolkienfans and LEGO analogue, so there’s no hard and fast rule on community creation. We don’t, however, host NSFW communities on tabletop.place, though you are free to use your tabletop.place account to join NSFW communities on other instances so long as they are properly labeled as NSFW on the instance settings and are not egregiously obscene.
If you never want to see NSFW content other users might generate by joining NSFW instances, simply toggle off NSFW in your account settings page.
Do note that if you join a community of an instance that is considered unacceptable, such as an instance dedicated to racism, the federation of that community will be blocked.
Thank you!
Hi there! Is it possible to get a Marvel Champions LCG community? Thanks for all of your work on this instance!
Added!
Thank you, you guys are amazing!