Why would you create an account on every server? You can access any community on any server that your server is federated with.

Why are you browsing on a different instance? Stay on lemmy.world and search for communities from there. You should be able to see like http://lemmy.world/c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml. Note that you are on your instance but the @ tells it to grab the community from the other.

Thanks for the reply, don’t take the rest of this as an assault on you but as a commentary on the difficulty I’ve had trying to get involved- What’s a VC? Or a VA? What’s Warhorn? This is the difficulty because this is how the “guides” I’ve found (even Paizo’s) are written: full of acronyms and esoteric terms that are never defined anywhere. Surely there are common terms (like lodge?) that apply to every region, but there isn’t a glossary to even help with that.

You’ll see it if you search for it and in All, but it won’t be in your Local or Subscribe feed

…and it’s way cheaper than all of OPs suggestions other than the library

You have a right to that job! Everyone gets a bit of Imposter Syndrome every now and then. The realization that the entire World is run, every day, and built up, for centuries, by average people like you, and yet it continues to function relatively well. We are all out here just doing our best, day by day, just trying to do something that makes the World a slightly better place.

I don’t disagree that it’s a weakness. But that just is how it is for now. I’d guess that it will settle down to a few dozen “strong” instances that are all federated together, with hundreds more smaller instances available, but right now there are like 5 super-packed instances (lemmy.world, sh.itjust.works, kbin.social, etc) which are getting killed with a double-whammy: all the users and all the communities are on them.

If you search by the full URL of the sub and make sure that Search is set to “All” it will show up eventually. If you then subscribe, your instance will then be federated and start to receive info from that community but it does take a bit of time to get.

If you join a medium-sized but weeks-old instance then it is likely to already have been federated and you won’t have much of a headache.

Create an account off of lemmy.world and see if you have the same issues. A smaller instance can handle things easier. It have 2 but use the one that was most up-to-date and responsive.

“Penetrating oil” sounds like a WD 40 competitor, meaning a solvent rather than a lubricant. A lithium grease is what I use for that sort of thing, which I happen to use the WD40 version of (it’s a yellow and gray there, rather than red and blue).

Same here. I have a 9 year account on Reddit with only a few hundred posts and karma; by the time I found something worth posting about anything I posted would either drown out in the noise or essentially already be posted.

This is correct; until someone on those remote instances searches (or maybe subscribes?) then the c/ultralight won’t be federated to those remote instances. You should use a larger community as your test case, if you are trying to verify federation, or take is a sign that your (very niche?) ultralight community just hasn’t got many subscribers yet.

Agreed. When a chain of comments “lost the threads” of what interested me, I loved being able to skip past the rest.

I’m super-cheap so I have 5: from D&D i have the 3.5e and 5e PHBs, and Xanathar & Tasha which were gifts, and i have the PF2e CRB. (I do have a lot of PF2e pdfs though.)

I don’t know how people built characters before the advent of tools like DDB and Pathbuilder/Nexus that auto-incorporate all the content. I can’t imagine hitting higher levels as a spell caster and having to flip through multiple books to figure out my next spells; I had a hard enough time with 2 books for a non-PHB subclass 5e barbarian. I just bought the subclass on DDB and it’s transparent what the source is.

That’s the ugliest tomato I’ve ever seen on a burger!

I’m doing my part!

I disagree completely but I appreciate your candor and, frankly, accurate analysis.

Since I’m still relatively new to the system, it has to be flavor first, but that’s changing as i gain experience. My first char was (still is I guess) an Investigator and let me tell you, that is a tough class to start with. It breaks (in a good way) the fundamental “roll d20 to attack” mentality which threw off me, our new-to-PF GM, and the VTT.

My next was a Champion with Bastion (free) archetype, but I’ve ret-conned as I learn more rules to be Lastwall Sentry instead of Bastion. Champion and Bastion just had too much overlap- in other words the Champion alone satisfied my flavor-needs for protection and shield power.

I can’t find a single one of those in the app store, all they all in beta or some developer mode?