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A geologist and archaeologist by training, a nerd by inclination - books, films, fossils, comics, rocks, games, folklore, and, generally, the rum and uncanny… Let’s have it!

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  • Default instances would go a long way, I know there’s a lot of hate for lemmy.world but defaulting to the biggest instance or a random one in the top 10 would help ease some of the early friction.

    I’d rather join-lemmy (and join-fediverse) were smarter.

    Have a series of questions (for join-fediverse add “what service do you want?”):

    • Where are you?

    • What languages do you speak?

    • Select your hobbies from the list below:

    And it then spits out 2 or 3 instances.

    It’s what I’d do if someone asked me directly for a recommendation and should be relatively easy to do.

    As we say with someone posting a link to db0 on r/piracy, if you just say to people “this is the instance for you” and it seems relevant then they make the jump. I’m tempted to go to the main subs for Canada, Australia, the UK, etc and just post a link to the relevant instance.


















  • Back in the day, I used to play the online text-based MMORPG Urban Dead and really enjoyed Nexus War, a fantasy War-in-Heaven game inspired by its success that a lot of the UD players hopped over to.

    In theory, this kind of system would work well on the Fediverse as overheads are relatively low and the instances could represent different “lands”.

    A quick ponder on this suggests some kind of portal fantasy that gives you access to these “lands” as you would struggle to define a map with instances arriving and, probably, dropping out.

    • High fantasy - a bit like Age of Sigma has its “realms” but they are all on a similar technological level. Perhaps have each realm overseen by a particular god or pantheon with a certain ethos, aesthetic or technology (Steampunk dwarves, magical woodlands, etc). You could probably keep everything balanced by having core sets of weapons or skills with added flavour and modest variation in stats (so you could have summoners who would have a set amount of summoning points and could either get one big thing or multiple small things - so an Ent or some Saplings, zombie Hill Troll or horde of zombie rabbits).
    • Multiverse - where each instance represents a different “Earth” that has developed in it’s own way. Balancing technological systems would be hard as cyberpunk tech would trump Steampunk which would cause problems for Barbarians but Torg managed to do this as hi-tech kit would often break in lower tech worlds.

    Something like that. Each instance would work on their particular setting and it could be fun for existing Fediverse instances to come up with a “land” that suited them - db0 would have to pirates, feddit.uk could go Steampunk, SLRPNK could do something… well the theme is pretty clear.



  • I’m resigned to friends and family being almost impossible to get off WhatsApp. Despite being Meta it is also quite difficult to enshittify. If they manage it, I might be able start a conversation but until then it has to stay.

    For everything else Fediverse related I’m using Matrix as most Lemmy business happens there (Lemmy uses it for secure DMs so it makes sense). I will try and move people across from other chat platforms to Matrix on an ad hoc basis.