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Are there furry #ttrpgs? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Are you just wanting fantasy recommendations? If you're open to Sci Fi ttrps, then there's one I tried called Hc Svnt Dracones. I tried it a couple times, and it's fun.

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Setting a profile pic? (pawb.social)
 

I'm seeing within Sync a number of users have profile pics that show up on their posts. Is there a way in Sync to set that?

Facetiming your crush at 2am in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Considering Hunter is a fan of that universe's version of DS9, an Owl House and DS9 mashup is something I desperately want to see someone make

I died. This made me laugh for 5 minutes. I couldn't breathe. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I believe the actors are married in real life

Appreciation post in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Risa is one of the few communities on lemmy that I subscribe to since moving from reddit that actually feels alive and active, and I love that.

*Permanently Deleted* in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

In star citizen, it's a cloud city that floats in the upper atmosphere of the gas giant

Searching for Communities like a DNS finds URLs? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmm. I hadn't thought of this. I realize now that asking a DNS for a URL is predicated on there being one and only one IP address that maps to that URL. That wouldn't be the case when looking for a community, so the propogation of the query can't stop once a single result is found.

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Searching for Communities like a DNS finds URLs? (pawb.social)
 

So, I'm new to the fediverse and Lemmy, and I'm still trying to wrap my brain around it all. I'm sure people have talked about this, but by far my biggest issue so far has been finding communities. I specifically didn't want t to join a large instance, but that has led to issues of finding communities. I often need to go to lemmy.world or lemmy.ml and search for communities there because searching on a smaller instance won't yield results if no one's subbed to that community, even if the instances are federated.

Which leads to the point I'm trying to get to. It feels almost to me like if I'm trying to search for a URL but the DNS says it doesn't exist because no one on that DNS tried accessing that URL before so I need to query another DNS for it. But in reality, if I ask my DNS for a URL, if it doesn't know it, it'll ask other DNSs in turn until a result is determined. Why can't something like this exist for searching for communities? Does something like this exist at all, or is it impossible / a limitation of activity pub? But I feel searching for a community in one instance should in theory, if it doesn't know that community yet, be able to query federated instances if they know, until a result is returned.

Apologies if I'm unintentionally beating a dead horse. Or if there was a better community to post this to other than this one. See aforementioned community finding issues, lol.