With my recent de-modding and ban from the DnDMemes sub, I now have plenty of time to touch grass and help grow this community/instance. AMA I guess?

Honestly, fuck spez and the rest of the admin team.
You are a legend for what you did. They nat 1'd and instead of abiding by the roll, they flipped the table.

This is my first post on here thanks to the shit Admins pulled on you. How best do you recommend continuing the protest? Simply stop using reddit altogether, or is there a malicious compliance you recommend? My usage has gone down significantly since the API changes but I haven't been able to kick it altogether.
- How best do you recommend continuing the protest? Simply stop using reddit altogether, or is there a malicious compliance you recommend?
  Unfortunately, that's probably the only route, IMO
  My usage has gone down significantly since the API changes but I haven’t been able to kick it altogether.
  While it's not exactly a perfect replacement for reddit yet, lemmy can help with that, i've found. If you click to the "all" feed you can basically get a slows/less populated version of reddit r/all. Really all it lacks at the moment is user participation, which has been climbing a lot over just the past few weeks.
  
  Just to add, sorting All by Top Hour/6H keeps the content fresh. The default Active sorts by comments and favors 1-2 day old threads while Hot regularly resurfaces weeks old threads for some reason.
  
  First post on here, I have as well followed after the dndmemes mod fiasco by Reddit. Question: does Lemmy allow NSFW content? Asking... For a friend.
- Stopping using Reddit is probably the only effective form of protest. If you don't want to do that, reducing your usage at all will help. However, the best thing you can probably do is help the Fediverse grow. Your part of that means active participation, be it posts or comments. So that's what I would encourage you to do: Post things!
  
  Define Fediverse please?

Legend. Just registered here too after the coward decision from Reddit Admins. Other than cats and NCD I'm barely active now.
- https://sh.itjust.works/c/noncredibledefense
  Assuming that's the NCD you're talking about that seems to be its largest fediverse community.
  
  Just a little tip: If you use a browser (PC or mobile), you can simply write !noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works and it will automatically convert the link so that people directly can subscribe regardless on which server they are.
  
  3000 fediverse NCD users of hating spez
  
  THAT NCD indeed. Just need HFY around and I'll be set. Gone are the days of chasing every cat sub.
  I'm not a fan of the layout here, it's too compacted and things are not clearly defined, but I'll make do.

Thank you for your service. Fuck the admins.
Would you be interested in starting a shortstack-and-snitty friendly community, either on this instance or elsewhere on Lemmy? I know it started as a protest, but a genuine (albeit horny) community sprung up really quickly. A lot of users, myself included, legitimately enjoyed what it was shaping into these past couple of days, where normal memes were getting posted alongside horny ones. It made the sub a really enjoyable sex-positive space that wasn't solely dedicated to sex, and there are not many of those.
- There's a lot of NSFW communities popping up over at https://lemmynsfw.com/
  
  None seem to be for RPG memes, though. Beyond that, a community dedicated to just porn memes wouldn't be as enjoyable.

I have a spicy question for you!
...did you have a favourite NSFW meme I made?
- oh shit, nice username
  
  Hi~! I'm (still) kind of a slut!
- Oh hey! It's you! Good to see you here!
  Not Dalimey, but personally any of the Malberry ones. :P Gwen's Necklace of Compliance, probably?
  
  I liked that one a lot too!
- You made it over here! Yay! Is there anywhere we can see those now that they were deleted from r/dndmemes? Some were pretty excellent. Don’t think this community would allow those but I’m sure there is a community somewhere that would appreciate them.
- Dalimey's not enough of a degenerate to confess his favourite, but I am. My (other mod team member) favourite was this one.

Hello! Here’s Question.
… how did you do it? How did you transcend fear,pain death and become immortal?
Asking for a friend.
But more seriously thank you so much for what you did. You set an example.
And it wasn’t just about goblin tits ( and throbbing bugbear wang).
It was about resisting illegitimate execution of authority and the sub became a really cool sex positive space. ( possibly not the mods intent, but it happened.)
Anyway, I do have one final question.
For people who support you and the original mods and also the remaining mods…
What do you suggest we do?
Abandon that sub completely and just come here and try to make it really active or… what?
🙏❤️
- Seriously, the ruling that dismissed them was some egregious bullshit. I'm off reddit completely after that show of dickery.

They really should lock that sub down, migrate to a full NSFW sub, and leave all new posts pending mod approval with a message from automod directing them to here or the new sub.
- At some point Reddit will just ban all the mods and install their own
  
  That's when the members need to take keeping the sub NSFW into their own hands.
  
  They can ban the mods but if /r/interestingasfuck can't find new mods for 22 days and counting then /r/dndmemes will probably stay empty for even longer.
- Last I checked, there has not been a post in over 6 hours.
  
  Yeah, they have it set to manual approval atm

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A gnome with a tall, pointy hat indicates at a chalkboard with a long stick. The whiteboard says "Fuck Spez"

I am livid as the erasure of the snitties and all the amazing goblin mode posting. While this network might not want to go NSFW like that, I was personally all on board with the eventual 10% NSFW memes that seemed to be settling in before the interference.
- It was literally the best that subreddit had ever been.
  
  Yeah the memes went from constant references to the latest misunderstanding of the rules to decently original.

Serious question: Which DND races did you enjoy seeing fuck/be fucked and will you be encouraging that DISGUSTING (👀) behaviour here?
Because I'll be honest... I kinda enjoyed the smut.
- Made me enjoy shortstacks a lot. Both males and females. There's always been a weird spark within me for something being able to be both cute and sexy at the same time.
- No the great one, but I’m going to be completely honest with you. In the course of making memes where I discovered H games like cloud Meadows when I was searching for art.
  I might be attracted to Giants. But not gross looking ones you know I’m talking like hot 10 feet tall guys.
  Other than that bugbears, but I think that’s also a size difference fetish.
  … have I just wanted to date basketball players all this time?
  🧐
  
  I might be attracted to Giants. But not gross looking ones you know I’m talking like hot 10 feet tall guys
  Like this guy?
  
  I really enjoyed the kobolds and dragons
- I enjoyed the goblins more than anything else. Didn't realize I had a Shortstack thing.
  
  Why hello there!
- The real questions
- The dragons

A king till the very end. A hero who went out with a blast. In a word: based.
- In the real sense of the term, yes.

I just joined this website and I am very glad to join along for the ride. I hope more subreddits follow this kind of alternative and delete their subs so Reddit can be left in the dust from barely having anything left to see. Would be a justified end for their greed.
What was your initial reaction when they suddenly created a rule to fire you and blacklist you from being mod again out of nowhere? Must have been quite the surprise, albeit not unexpected.

Did the Reddit admins ever roll that persuasion or intimidation check? If so, was it just a regular fail or a nat 1?

Fuck Spez , I have bailed out of Reddit , it is beyond saving because structurally it is built on a flawed concept of assuming benevolent admins who work for the good of the community , and that is no longer the case , they are too far gone to be able to salvage value from that place and we are better off rebuilding better here.
- I'm truly hoping almost every subreddits come to using an alternative like this and shut down their original subreddits. Less things to see on reddit means less traffic, less things to see, less ad revenue, less odds for the website to survive. The proper way to have a good ol' fashioned mutiny.
  
  Or, and just hear me out here, OR we leave Reddit to do it’s thing. Let it be a corporate honey trap that allows authentic discussion to flourish in places like this.

You did a great job.
I have tried to repoint the tiny Wanderhome community on Reddit here to Lemmy for those that want to make the jump - but given most of the activity is on Discord, it is not very lively here yet!
What are a handful of your favourite D&D memes at the moment?

What was it like to be a mod for a community that has more than a million users?

Dunno where else to drop it, so I'll put it here: props to you for using this opportunity to finally "fix" the name from dndmemes to general rpgmemes. Lord knows that debate went on for years longer than it should've

It's kind of pathetic they don't even pretend to care about their own rules anymore.
I just hope we can turn this place into a better alternative!
Ama related; What's the thing your players did that caused the biggest "Oh. NO. They did that?!" reaction you've had

AMA I guess
Have you tried Pathfinder?
Now the meme's out of the way, how are you finding modding on Lemmy so far?

A legend to the very end, you and the other mods helped keep the fire alive.

Cheers for moving over! I'll almost miss the 50/50 nature of that sub being NSFW

Any thoughts on having the main DNDmemes sub very very very actively signpost people to join here?
- Honestly the better thing to do. Only fools would willingly stick to reddit after the shit the higher-ups have been pulling.
- I think it's pretty actively doing that when a bot replies to every post linking to this place :)

You god damn hero. Thank you for your service.

Is it hard to walk with those iron balls between your legs.
For real though. Thanks for your efforts and making a stand.

I am so sorry to see you and the others go. I can't believe they perma banned folks and not just demodded them. I am gonna miss all that smut!

are you the guy who asked the admins to roll a dice for a iniative check? :D
- Yes!
  
  i loved that SO much. so they really did ban you for it, hm? sucks but.. worth it :D (i hope!)
  
  That was legendary. We're going to share that with our descendants for generations to come.

Sorry to hear about your ban, it was an honorable protest. What was your favorite meme that you saw in your time?

do you have a particular fave meme from the NSFW storm you were able to save before the purge? if so, could you show us? all for research purposes of course...
- Yes, for research. Please...

Are you in contact with the other two mods who got kicked? u/4cheese u/EquivalentInflation? How did the admins decide who got the hammer?
- Yes! We have a discord. They're doing well, one's justifiably frustrated because they'd been working on a post and finished writing it a few hours before getting banned. The mods they picked had approved memes that were marked as smut/lewd.
- I signed up for lemmy a while back and well... I should go touch grass for a bit before jumping back into something like lemmy. 😅

Hello. I would like to name a NPC in my campaign after you. Do you have any preference in class or race?

AMA
What's a moment you've really enjoyed in a game recently?
- I've had a weekly 5e game with some old college friends that's been running for 4+ years. We started at level 1 and just turned level 19. During the last fight I ended in the center of an enemy's casting of Meteor Swarm and was unscathed thanks to my Shield Master feat. That was pretty great!
  
  I just took that feat so I feel validated.
  
  I just took that feat so I feel validated.

Absolutely pathetic how reddit handled this.
- This and everything else.

Thanks for all the work you put in, the frankly great content we got out of the NSFW protest, and for sticking to your guns. Took me a minute to figure out how to work this site, but I'm happy now that I'm here, and look forward to sticking around and seeing what nonsense we get up to here.

Thoughts on Snitties?
- Constantly

Hat tip. Was the naming of the ttrpg.network deliberate ? Tittie RPG. Network ? or have i just been around snitties for too long ?
- If the word tabletop sets you off, you might have a problem
  
  tt for tabletop is too occam's razor. Besides, if it was tabletop, it would just be one t. (Just go with i've rolled so low on perception that im convinced my answer is right and no amount of persuading except the divine word of the creator will have any effect)

Just came here to say "fuck spez" and "thanks for the good times dalimey"

I wasn't in that sub and I may be the only Lemmy user who doesn't play DnD, but even I've heard tales of your antics. Welcome to the Fediverse!

o7 You guys are doing a wonderful job Fuck Spez

- doesn't matter when they nat 1 diviner dice'd your save.

Thanks for helping with one of my favourite subs and being an awesome person all around. 👐

HE DOES IT FOR FREE LMAO

Its pathetic what reddit is doing. Thank you for all your hard work.

got no question, just wanted to say you dropped this king 👑

I don't have a question. I just wanted to tell you, you've got so much respect for what you did, even outside of the DnD community. I'm glad you did what you did, and I hope the rest of the mod team will join us here!

Glad to see you’re still around and not giving up on being a part of the community, I know it sucks being thrown out of something you’ve worked on for so long. Hopefully the community can successfully migrate over the next few weeks and we’ll be back to arguing over stupid rules every week.
- But like... The right kind of stupid rules.

So how's the experience modding over here different than on reddit so far?
- It's quieter here from a mod perspective, and people are less looking to get into fights than the DnD subreddits. At least that's the vibe I've got from this instance

When did you start using reddit, when did you start playing RPGs, and when did you start modding that sub?
- Started using reddit 12 years ago, playing DnD for 5-6 years, and modding for about 4.

What would spez character sheet look like?
- Level 0 commoner with 3 in every stat.
  
  Also neutral evil.
  The least interesting kind of evil.

Genuine question dude, how did you grow such gigantic balls of absolute steel? Was it something special in your diet? Mad respect o7

No questions here, just saw the reddit post and came here to say massive respect to you

Do you watch DnD content online (CriticalRole, Dimension 20, etc.)? If so, what's your favourite?

Damn, so did the admins roll a 20?
- More like they rolled a 1 and decided to flip the table instead.
- Nah. They just said fuck you, i get to decide.
  Classic controlling DMs.

I don't know anything about it, but you're probably better off this way.

Damn that's spicy. God speed, Dalimey