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It wasn't the fact that there was a limit to see 1000 comments but what they were. The vast majority of my 12 years on Reddit I spent talking about dungeon and dragons 5th edition (DnD 5e) which I started playing early in is lifestyle. It was my first role playing game and I got sucked into the Internet to learn more. Before my first game I found dndnext where I could learn about the current edition. I spent hours and at least 1000 comments talking about playtests, new books, character concepts, rules, adventures and eventually the new onednd playtest.

If you aren't familiar with DnD you might be unfamiliar with their owner wizards of the coast (WoTC) which is part of Hasbro. WoTC has been awful this year, trying to rescind their open licence agreement which allows 3rd parties to operate. They broke their workers union with the Pinkertons and their are rumors their new edition will be digital only. I stopped even caring about the new playtests and completely disengaged with learning anything new.

So I was deleting comments on the old forum that provided me so much entertainment about the old game that I used to love. Both ruined in the same year but overwhelming greed. If that isn't the most millennial late stage capitalism experience I don't know what is.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I want to shout out to https://ttrpg.network/ for setting up my new DnD forum. It's been good to be on a new place to discuss the game at it's new onednd location

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The dozen or more subs I had on Reddit is what I miss most of leaving. I found so many map makers, item crafters, homebrew writers, and so much interesting rule debating that I lost overnight.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Of course. People just want to connect with other people

[–] Domille 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Good thing we (map makers and other creators) are migrating to Lemmy too! I started posting my maps on various battle map communities here, and I've been chatting up some of the other creators to make the move as well!

Edit to add: the lemmy.world D&D community is discussing allowing creators post their work there. If you want to see creators on this platform, please let the mods know! https://sh.itjust.works/post/649434

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks! I forgot to search for battlemaps when subscribing. I hope more content gets posted on these instances. Do need to figure out why dnd content never hits my subscribed feed when I'm a member of life 2 dozen dnd channels.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm sure you can join ttrpg.network with a battlemap community. It's suppose to be a one stop shop for ttrpg

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Some things about the fediverse still escape me. But I’m trying to learn.

I’m on memmy (iOS client) and clicking that link takes me to the apps browser rather than just navigating to the community. I’m guessing because it’s another instance? So I tried searching for the community in memmy’s search bar and I’m finding a bunch of tiny TTRPG groups but not that one from that instance

Still trying to figure out navigation here

[–] spaghettiwestern 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Be aware that Reddit is repeatedly restoring deleted comments. I started editing posts to gibberish and then going back and deleting them about 6 weeks ago. Tonight some of those comments and posts had to be delete for the 4th time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are not restoring them, communities go public again making them appear in your profile. For some reason someone thought it was a good idea to hide them in your profile if the community is not accessible.

I deleted my comments for couple of weeks now, today there were only two left, looks like i'm about to finish.

I know that for sure because i export all my deleted comments and i can't find the reappeared ones in my backup, so i in fact haven't deleted them.

[–] spaghettiwestern 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My experience is different. I've deleted the posts and comments from the same subs multiple times.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same posts too? I don't know the backend and if the posts and comments get reindexed in the respective accounts, but i can imagine it happening like that

[–] spaghettiwestern 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Same posts and comments. I've deleted both for multiple subs only to log in a couple of days later only to find them back again. It's happened multiple times. Other people have posted that same thing has happened to them, sometimes with much older posts and comments.

[–] imaqtpie 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hi from Lemmy! I hadn't been able to federate here before and my comments weren't showing up but now it's working.

I didn't know about all that WOTC was doing to DnD but I am familiar with them because I used to play Heroscape. That's absolutely fucked and you have my sympathy.

The good news is that we are on the verge of building something that we own on Lemmy, where corporations won't be able to fuck with us as much.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The good news is that we are on the verge of building something that we own on Lemmy, where corporations won’t be able to fuck with us as much.

Yeah, about that...
Let's see what happens when Meta decides to federate Threads with the rest of us.

I really hope you're right because I love this place right now. It's much smaller than other platforms but there's enough content for hours of browsing and the community is leagues above the rest of the internet in terms of quality of discourse.

Outside of the fedi, I don't remember the last time I saw opposing views coexist in the same thread without one being brigaded.

[–] imaqtpie 6 points 1 year ago

Meta doesn't get to decide. We do. That's what I love so much about Lemmy.

The day this instance federates with Meta is the day I leave. They, and any other big corporations, can fuck all the way off. We have seen where that path leads time and time again.

https://sh.itjust.works/comment/714654

The userbase is everything and we have the people we need. Everything else will eventually coalesce around that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have precisely one thing I left on one reddit account because I can't bring myself to delete it. I asked a question on a history sub and got a fantastic answer on an obscure question.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I loved askhistorians. It answered questions I didn't know I had

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You could copy and save it as a text file, and annotate links if necessary. That way you'll always have it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

They could also copy the question and the substantive answers and post them on the Fediverse AskHistorians community/magazine.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ahhh yeah me too :( Incidentally I also swapped to Pathfinder 2e only a few months before leaving reddit and we’re having a lot of fun in our campaign!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I played a few sessions of PF 2e. It's fun. If we weren't 2 years into our campaign I would switch. Next one I think we are going to do pathfinder

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

We switched mid campaign, but we luckily had a good reason for the changes as we just ended up in the feywild so whenever anything weird comes up we can wave our hands at the fey 😂

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could you not convert your characters over? I don't play either one (I was more into Palladium games like TMNT and Heroes, or the old Westwood Star Wars), but I feel like it could be doable?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You can but nothing is ever directly equivalent so it's easier to do earlier. Besides we're already this deep and it's not like we are paying anything since we're using static source books

[–] Blaze 5 points 1 year ago

Thanks for sharing this

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@dumples If I were deleting my comments, I would try to archive them offline for myself.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I got my Reddit data download. Also it's more symbolic than anything.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

@dumples OH, that's great! How did you do that? I would like to archive my comments too, if there is an easy way. Is there some tool for mass downloading (and probably deleting?).

[–] can 3 points 1 year ago

There's an official data request but I haven't gotten mine. There's scripts for deleting comments and apparently they still work.

[–] sneakyninjapants 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They most-likely used a Reddit Data Request. It's kind of like Google Takeout if you've ever used that. If you've already deleted your reddit account it won't work IIRC. I scrubbed my comments and posts with PowerDeleteSuite a day or two after I submitted the data request, but before I actually received the data (took 20 days), but all of my comments and posts did show up in the data request. Don't know if that points to reddit actually keeping that data in their database and just hiding it on the site or not, but either way, if it's not visible on the site it becomes worthless to them unless they decide to provide that data to someone behind the scenes.

Edit: spelling

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

@sneakyninjapants I know some people complained that Reddit would reinstate all comments that was deleted by hand, every single one. So if you delete your account, maybe Reddit will bring the comments back after some time. I didn't delete my account so far, only logged out and not logged in since. As I'm in the EU, Reddit probably has to provide such an option to download and delete my comments, but I'm not sure. Not going to log in for the moment. I will have this in mind though, thanks for point it out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Can't remember. I found the link to do it on here

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

@dumples

I saw a video on Nebula a couple days ago about D&D that discusses everything you just mentioned about the litigation and subsequent fallout over the years with the game. This guy responded that the video is now out on YouTube. I think you'll see that a lot of what's been going on with the game is very repetitive.