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Mike Shea

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
18096 total appearances

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The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

If you don't know what to do, just sign up over at Dice Camp and you'll be fine. I would recommend that. Chirp.enworld.com has actually been around for a long time, but there's not a lot of people over there. There's like a handful. I stayed over there because I've been over there for a while. And again, I know the people over there and I like them.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

If you want the big dog, if you wanted to join the big Mastodon one, it would be mastodon.social, which is sort of like the reference installation of Mastodon. The key is it doesn't matter which one of those you join. You can still talk to people on the other ones.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

If you want the big dog, if you wanted to join the big Mastodon one, it would be mastodon.social, which is sort of like the reference installation of Mastodon. The key is it doesn't matter which one of those you join. You can still talk to people on the other ones.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

If you want the big dog, if you wanted to join the big Mastodon one, it would be mastodon.social, which is sort of like the reference installation of Mastodon. The key is it doesn't matter which one of those you join. You can still talk to people on the other ones.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

That's the whole point of the federation is that if people are over on Dice Camp could talk to people over on chirp.enworld.org, it doesn't even look like there's a difference between the two. So it doesn't really matter which Mastodon server you join. And that's why I know people are like, I get confused because I don't know which one to join.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

That's the whole point of the federation is that if people are over on Dice Camp could talk to people over on chirp.enworld.org, it doesn't even look like there's a difference between the two. So it doesn't really matter which Mastodon server you join. And that's why I know people are like, I get confused because I don't know which one to join.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

That's the whole point of the federation is that if people are over on Dice Camp could talk to people over on chirp.enworld.org, it doesn't even look like there's a difference between the two. So it doesn't really matter which Mastodon server you join. And that's why I know people are like, I get confused because I don't know which one to join.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

So my recommendation would be joining dice.camp, joining Sherp.enworld.com or joining Mastodon.social. And you can find links to those. I really like Mastodon. Then Blue Sky I brought up. Blue Sky is where lots of TTRPG people came over from X. Finally, people got over X. I was over it two years ago. I could be the grognard that was like, I left it a long time ago.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

So my recommendation would be joining dice.camp, joining Sherp.enworld.com or joining Mastodon.social. And you can find links to those. I really like Mastodon. Then Blue Sky I brought up. Blue Sky is where lots of TTRPG people came over from X. Finally, people got over X. I was over it two years ago. I could be the grognard that was like, I left it a long time ago.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

So my recommendation would be joining dice.camp, joining Sherp.enworld.com or joining Mastodon.social. And you can find links to those. I really like Mastodon. Then Blue Sky I brought up. Blue Sky is where lots of TTRPG people came over from X. Finally, people got over X. I was over it two years ago. I could be the grognard that was like, I left it a long time ago.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

I could tell where this was going. And then I was like, oh, we're all moving over. So everybody moved over from from X over to blue sky. And a lot of people did. And it's much more active over there than it had been before. And I still think it's at risk. And as Corey Doctorow says, it's a system that has no fire exits yet. It's a big theater with no fire exits.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

I could tell where this was going. And then I was like, oh, we're all moving over. So everybody moved over from from X over to blue sky. And a lot of people did. And it's much more active over there than it had been before. And I still think it's at risk. And as Corey Doctorow says, it's a system that has no fire exits yet. It's a big theater with no fire exits.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

I could tell where this was going. And then I was like, oh, we're all moving over. So everybody moved over from from X over to blue sky. And a lot of people did. And it's much more active over there than it had been before. And I still think it's at risk. And as Corey Doctorow says, it's a system that has no fire exits yet. It's a big theater with no fire exits.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

If you decided today you didn't want to be there anymore, you can't really leave. So Blue Sky is still at risk because it costs so much money and so much effort in order to fire up an alternative Blue Sky server that nobody, as far as I know, nobody has done it yet. I think there was one in Japan. Somebody fired one up in Japan.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

If you decided today you didn't want to be there anymore, you can't really leave. So Blue Sky is still at risk because it costs so much money and so much effort in order to fire up an alternative Blue Sky server that nobody, as far as I know, nobody has done it yet. I think there was one in Japan. Somebody fired one up in Japan.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

If you decided today you didn't want to be there anymore, you can't really leave. So Blue Sky is still at risk because it costs so much money and so much effort in order to fire up an alternative Blue Sky server that nobody, as far as I know, nobody has done it yet. I think there was one in Japan. Somebody fired one up in Japan.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

And there's a bunch of technical reasons why, but basically it's essentially you're making a full copy of all of blue sky that in under like mastodon where you're really only making your, you know, you're setting up a server that can communicate to the people that are on your server that communicate to others in theirs. It's the whole thing.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

And there's a bunch of technical reasons why, but basically it's essentially you're making a full copy of all of blue sky that in under like mastodon where you're really only making your, you know, you're setting up a server that can communicate to the people that are on your server that communicate to others in theirs. It's the whole thing.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

And there's a bunch of technical reasons why, but basically it's essentially you're making a full copy of all of blue sky that in under like mastodon where you're really only making your, you know, you're setting up a server that can communicate to the people that are on your server that communicate to others in theirs. It's the whole thing.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

You're downloading the whole thing and it's scaling exponentially, which means like you need massive amounts of storage. It's like petabyte. I don't know if it's petabytes. It was a lot. It was a ton of storage that you were gonna need in order to keep, to have your own version of Blue Sky so that you could be independent from it.