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Martin Ralya Oct 28, 2018

With the G+ shutdown I'm kicking the tires here again. I like Mastodon, and I liked it back when I joined earlier this year, but thinking in toots still doesn't come naturally to me.

I gather dice.camp was down when the G+ announcement hit, and for a little while thereafter. Any concerns that it won't be around in the medium term, or is all well again?

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tcha Oct 28, 2018

@martinralya I'll let dice.camp people answer that.
From here, it looks pretty solid.
There's usually going to be a little more downtime on interactive websites run by smaller organizations, because handling a lot more load means paying a lot more in recurring costs.

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Martin Ralya Oct 28, 2018

@tcha That makes sense, and good point!

From poking around, it looks like tabletop.social sprang up while dice.camp was in limbo, so I thought there might be a longer-term issue.

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tcha

@martinralya My rough, ignorant first impression is that they're similar in size, but culturally different:
dice.camp has a lot of storygame-oriented people (which makes sense since Sage LaTorra admins) and uses the sorta generic mastodon.social rules.
tabletop.social seems more general in its game focus (e.g. maybe more 5e?) and uses the dzuk blocklist and rules, which are in some ways more restrictive - for example, stating that people who work for police orgs aren't welcome on the instance.