Hey all! I currently moderate a small roleplay community on Reddit where we play mostly lighthearted scenarios about typical village life with our characters. Recently, Reddit pretty much killed our sub by banning a significant part of our most active users (probably because they believe they’re spam bots, but they are refusing to even answer us about what happened), so we’re looking at possibly switching platforms… The thing is: it’s pretty common for users to have multiple accounts, each representing a character played, which are sometimes active in the same post. They stay in our own community, though. Typically, users have 3-5 characters, although we have one extreme case where a user is building their story with ~50 characters (Yeah, I can see why Reddit would flag that, but interestingly that user is unaffected).
We played around with Lemmy a little and the platform would be suitable for us. But to avoid such a thing happening again, I wanted to ask here before we switch over, since we’re not exactly acting like “normal” users. Is this behavior okay for the instance admins, and are there any automated systems we have to be aware of?
Thanks for your time!
theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Bear in mind you have made this post on just one instance, Lemmy.world, if they aren’t keen on you doing this for whatever reason there are many more instances around that could be more accommodating.
If you have people that are technically literate you could even spin up your own instance just for your community to register their accounts to. They would still be able to interact with the wider fediverse in the same manner if they wanted to post outside of your roleplays too!
total_disaster@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
We’re considering setting up our own instance as well, but that’s a bit above my IT skill level. Thanks for the suggestion!