Defederation blocks communication both ways, I believe.

Very possible. This may be a question for @eerongal. It does indeed look like this instance is stuck an older version of Lemmy as well (17.4; the latest is 18.0 or 18.1 by now), so this may be a bug which requires an update to fix.

Are you searching from a web browser? I know the Jerboa for Android app does not correctly search into other instances yet.

When I search from my laptop, this is what I see:

Did you access it via the search function here on ttrpg.network? The link you provided won’t work until someone searches “[email protected]” from here and visits it through the link in the search results at least once.

Since Lemmy is kind of like a bunch of small separate Reddits, its very possible that a community you are looking for already exists; its just on a different Lemmy server. But fear not! You can be the person to connect it so everyone here can see it and start to interact with it!

Use this site to search for other communities that might not yet be on this instance: https://lemmyverse.net/communities

You should find a good handful of communities around D&D, Pathfinder, Fate, etc. When you find one you are interested in, you can visit it directly, but since you probably don’t have an account on that server, you won’t be able to post or comment there until you connect it to ttrpg.network by subscribing to it.

Mouse over the link (it should pop up with “Click to Copy”), and copy it. Then come back here, open the search page, and search for the link you just copied. You should get a result that you can click on, but notice this time you are viewing it through ttrpg.network, so you can interact with it with your account here. Click “subscribe”, and everyone here will also start to see posts from that community.

Congrats! You have just made one link in the Fediverse, connecting everyone here to a community somewhere else.

Love Letter. A very quick game with just 13 cards. Games take about 3 minutes so you can play multiple rounds if you want. Suits 2-6 players (best at max 4 in my experience). Generally very popular and easy to learn.

Comes in dozens of themes as well, if you don’t like the “princess in a castle” theme. You can find Batman, Cuthulu, The Hobbit, versions depending on your preference.

OnShape is my go-to. It’s what I taught my students when I was a TA for an introductory engineering class at college, and they could pick it up in about a day.

Can do just about anything a “professional” cad suite does, but it’s free, works in a browser, and is generally so much better designed so you don’t have to fight against the UI to get anything done.

You were into Warhammer at age 4? Man, I couldn’t even read.

Didn’t one of these lab grown meats recently hit the market finally?

The way I picture this is by letting communities have some sort of “partner communities” listing. If mods of games@xyz decide they like the content of games@abc, and gaming@123, they add those communities as “partners” (perhaps those communities have to accept which in turn adds games@abc as their partner). Then, when any user subscribes to one partnered community, they also become subscribed by proxy to the others, and begin to see posts from all 3.

This helps smaller communities piggyback on the success of willing larger communities and gain a bit of visibility as well, which should encourage growth of each partner so smaller ones don’t just die out.

Communities can “unpartner” at any time, in which case users would only remain subscribed to the one they originally selected. And of course, users could explicitly block any of the partnered communities if they don’t want to see the whole set.

Conversations with my spouse are almost entirely of the following:

1. planning and coordinating
2. infodumping
3. little love phrases (“I love you.” “You are a good wife.” “Come give me a kiss.”)
4. listening silently while my wife shares the latest gossip and about her day
5. spontaneous deep conversations

I love her.

Why plastic washers instead of springs? Is the bed sagging due to the washers deforming with heat?

Wait so what was the trick to save time and filament? Just rotating the part to use fewer supports?

I know this is answer is overdone at this point, but a pretty good chunk of Brandon Sanderson’s books are this.

Wait, Gormenghast has Science fiction? When does that show up? I only read the first book so far and don’t remember a lot.

Oh interesting. Kosher is a whole market I didn’t even think of with Beyond Meat.

Is cultured meat considered “real meat” or “kosher” for your purposes? (I hope I’m using the term correctly)

If I see a URL like this, I, and… polling my coworkers here… All 52 coworkers on my group chat would say these are highly suspicious and would not click on them. I imagine this is the general consensus for internet-savvy people.

• I’m happily reading a post on Reddit, and see a link like that: clearly dangerous.
• I’m happily reading a post on Lemmy, and see a link like that: probably dangerous, but possibly a Lemmy instance? Impossible to tell. I want to read Lemmy, not whatever “stoneclub” is.

It would be great if links to remote Lemmy instances had some kind of styling applied; a little icon, etc., that would make it clear this link is within the fediverse.