The methodology to answer the question is pretty clear. Go through some ‘experimental philosophy’, and see if that question could have obtained a grant in the Psychology department.

If the answer is ‘no’, then ‘no’.

If the answer is ‘yes’, then it looks like the disciplines have some overlap.

I’m not sure what this really adds. If someone’s only reading Lemmy through Mastodon, why not just stay on Mastodon? It’s nice to crosspost, but I only get Mastodon posts I want to see. But I see all the Lemmy posts on a given community, so it seems vulnerable to spammy @'s.

At the very least I’d say ‘wait until a few lemmies federate’ before lumping that on the admins. I have no idea what the fallour or additional work might be.

There can’t be a consensus, as the rulings are based on laws, and the laws all depend upon the judge at the time.

A few lawywers have already weighed in. None of them have been willing to give a prediction.

At least there are plenty of non-OGL options. I’ve been ranting for a while now about the OGL not being open, but I never thought I’d see such movement around the issue.

This is a title people give to you, not a registered profession. Linus, from Linux Tech Tips is an influencer insofar as he influences people.

While a lot of kids saying “I want to be famous” are a little cringe, if we want to be more charitable we should understand people who say ‘I want to be an influencer’ simply as ‘I want to do well at this job’, which isn’t a bad thing, unless the job is bad.

2. Yes! Put your name under ‘player’. It had a couple of problems, so I’ve updated the sheet link.
3. Builds? Like optimized characters? I guess the Gitlab board maybe?
4. How did you get that link? It doesn’t go anywhere.

:)

Less and less since I’ve found you can follow a lemmy channel from Mastodon.

I’ll be back when /r/latex isn’t dead.

Can I intereset you in an open source RPG before the Monstrous Manual macros start limiting your reading time to your subscription level?

Not yet, it just says ‘something went wrong’ when I try to start it up on Linux with an AMD card. Same result on my Windows partition.

It’s not December. I’m calling the cops.

You’re asking about compromises, I take it?

Best to stick to individual examples. With a question this broad, it’s easy to say ‘yes’ by ferreting out some historical cause, but the answer’s not useful, so the question’s not useful. Best to look at which compromises to take for a specific movement.

Branding! Using the OGL you can’t use the term “Dungeons & Dragons” (you never could).

Well…you could say ‘this is compatible with Dungeons & Dragons’ if you do not accept the OGL.

The OGL is not relevant to copyright law

Right - in fact I’m not sure what good it is at all. If you agree to it, you agree to not use:

product and product line names, logos and identifying marks including trade dress; artifacts; creatures characters; stories, storylines, plots, thematic elements, dialogue, incidents, language, artwork, symbols, designs, depictions, likenesses, formats, poses, concepts, themes and graphic, photographic and other visual or audio representations; names and descriptions of characters, spells, enchantments, personalities, teams, personas, likenesses and special abilities; places, locations, environments, creatures, equipment, magical or supernatural abilities or effects, logos, symbols, or graphic designs;

…what a mouthful! And all quite subjective.

I’ve gone with GPL over OGL, as the OGL isn’t open. Full post here:

gemini://ttrpgs.com/gen/ogl.gmi

From their site:

Molly, like Signal, uses Google’s proprietary code to support some features.

It’s Signal, with fewer users.

That has the same fundamental problems, with a smaller network (fewer people use it). If you’re looking for something which will never have those issues, I’d recommend anything on XMPP. Yax, for example, will let you chat with anyone on the xmpp protocol (like conversations, profanity, et c. et c.). It’ll never disappear, and if some problem arises, you can just change the client and keep your account and contacts (basically it’s e-mail but for IMs).

I think the pros/ cons are fairly standardized at this point - we all know the same things:

Good

• First FOSS platform we could actually use, because normal people can and do use it. My family’s on there. It has emoji-stickers, easy sharing, easy setup, and everything else that makes it viable.
• Reliable, checkable encryption.
• Good effort to circumvent bans, e.g. proxies for Iranians.

Bad

• Occasional GPL violations, as they neglected to share the server for a while.
• Requires a sim card, so you have to agree to a tracking device.
• Non-federated, so it’s not sustainable. One day it’ll disappear, or get corrupted, or something, and then the entire base has to move somewhere.

I suspect some of the hate on Reddit is simply due to size, though some might be about money - more users means more cash, whereas with self-hosted platform, there’s little cash incentive.

Another use of federation is notification - you can follow @asklemmy@lemmy.ml from Mastodon, and you’ll see posts come up in your feed, so there’s no requirement to continuously check or get an email notification.

Just the tip…

Does Discourse federate? Can I follow a group from a Mastodon account?

How do you know #2 on your list won’t cause problems later

Same attitude as a blocklist, broadly. Once someone’s on the shit-list, you just need to be okay with those messages lying in the bin, unseen.

That goes against the fundamental “push” nature of email,

Yea, that’s what I’m going for. It seems to work for IMs. And if someone emails me from nowhere, offering wonderful things, I’ll get back to them late, but don’t have to get a ‘ding’ from all the random crap.

I learnt Gregg’s shorthand, because it’s beautiful.