Exactly - I am hoping to find some smaller, close knit communities that align with our own to federate with. The goal isn’t to create another instance full of news feeds and etc…but instead I want to try and build a community that is focused on valuable interactions/collaboration and working to improve and contribute to the creative commons and open source community.

Oh, this is quite interesting - never heard of it before. I think this could definitely work to an extent, but I am already so deep down the rabbit hole for MediaWiki. Plus, I think MediaWiki is actually a great fit for this type of community, because it is community created, and has rollbacks of edits, and the community itself is able to collaborate and contribute very easily. While it isn’t in the fediverse, I think it will “essentially” be connected via the forum that is within the subdomain. The intent is for the forum and wiki to work side by side, and the forum will be the connection into the fediverse.

Regardless though, neodb.net is really cool - thanks for sharing :) I’ll definitely look into it more!

Sorry for the late reply, but yeah I tried both ways.

It’s me, the same person - just commenting from Lemmy/piefed. hello me!

Oh, I’m dumb - that makes more sense. Thank you!

Because you mentioned it might be a bug, I want to see if I am doing this correctly:

It says pending, and I remember this was one of the issues when I had bot fight mode on in cloudflare and the following of user profiles wouldn’t work in /world.

Is this the similar to the same issue?

Is this how I would correctly be adding an incoming community to a “similar Communities” section?

Well, I’m glad I wasn’t crazy then. :)

Yeah, but it was empty for me. Might require login or something. Or maybe there are just no related communities?

Eh, either way - not a big deal lol

Ok, that’s good news! Also, I checked the activitypub.space, and see they have a related communities section, but it wasn’t clickable for me (maybe it just requires login, or some other simple issue inm missing) - regardless that is a great feature and might be a good way to pull content into the forum without muddying the content within my primary categories. :)

Thank you.

1. I’ll definitely check out Anubis and your configuration to see if it will work for my scenario.
2. Ok, good to know - if it’s simply a bug then that that’s fine, mostly I wanted to make sure it wasn’t an indicator that something deeper was broken or getting blocked in the communication.
3. Sorry, I used the term instance when I meant community. But it sounds like the federation is more so to bring traffic into the forum, rather then out. Did I understand that correctly? If that is the case, then I may not opt to use it - as I was originally hoping for a way to push forum content into communities. I’ll explore this further I guess - because I’m unfamiliar with relays and fedibuzz.

Overall, I appreciate the detailed response :)

[Edit, for archival purposes]: I looked into Anubis, and it looks like a great option, but I have my nodeBB forum installed via Cloudron, and just a quick rudimentary search reveals that it may be difficult to set up alongside Cloudron. This post: https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/13957/deploying-anubis-ai-crawler-filtering-on-a-cloudron-server/7 shows an example of using a second vps to accomplish it, but …well it requires a second vps. If anyone comes up with a solution in the future and stumbles across this post, I’d love to hear how you worked it out.

Can mbin browse Lemmy/piefed? I would love to only use one app/login if possible. If one application can correctly view/post to each service - then it would seem logical to just use the one. I might switch to mbin If it can browse Lemmy content.

Something definitely worth looking at, although it might add more complexity. Worth experimenting with the idea though.

The rules page on the main website is placeholder text - for the actual rules you need to watch the video or read the rules documents linked above. Planning to set up the main website rules page with more of a “tutorial” walkthrough type of experience, or animated gifs - just haven’t gotten to it yet.

Thanks! I cross posted :)

Yeah, it does take a bit of movement to set up, and I’ve tohed with the idea of drinking down some space, but as you learn to chain nexus movement (pearl and amber pieces together) as well as swaps and jade launches, movement can be sped up quite a bit. Also, with the range of the abilities it can get a bit too cramped (although of course ranges could be reduced)

Mostly what I’m getting at, is that I need more okay testing from experienced playtesters (that actually have gotten fairly decent at the game) to make an accurate decision if a smaller board would be a good idea or not.

Thanks for trying it out and the feedback though :) I really appreciate it! If you have any more feedback, I’d love to hear it!

Yeah, I’ve been trying to use the LLM to help me make a hybrid system with hueristics/MCTS, but I think it mostly comes down to I don’t know or understand enough about these AI systems to correctly guide the LLM. As for the main game, I know just enough programming to tweak and guide the LLM as a tool to make what I want, but it’s somewhat a shot in the dark trying to navigate creating an AI system. I think if I have to continue on my own, I may just need to start doing more research on how these systems actually work.

Also, the board game, I’ve come to realize is actually quite complex compared to many board games, and has a very high number of possible moves, and varies heavily upon search depth - so I think I’m kind of starting out in “hard mode” if I’m correct.

Thanks for the info, although the plan for now is via a VPS due to the lower costs. As for exporting databases - I’m currently using flarum, so I’m guessing I wouldn’t be able to export data from flarum and transfer it over to nodeBB.

I appreciate all the advice though!

You make some great points all around, and I pretty much agree all around. Of course, it’s very possible that this falls through and fails to establish for those same reasons you mentioned - but I figured it doesn’t hurt to give it a solid effort and try. As mentioned in some other comments across different crossposts, I think I will most likely need to make the transition to the permenant platform earlier rather than later, as soon as I’m somewhat confident that this experiment is has a decent chance of gaining members. (I’m thinking I just need to get a small handful of committed members first, then work together to establish the new platform).

Anyways, I greatly appreciate your willingness to join even if it’s just to lurk a while :). Of course if you have feedback or ideas I’m always open to constructive criticism.

Oh, ok - I see what you are saying. To use that community to federate with. Yeah that’s a great idea - and I’ll definitely keep it in mind once I eventually switch over to nodeBB :)

Oooh this is a nice sub :) Do you think that a forum community counts as something I made to cross post there?