Very vanilla here. Playing a 7 year long campaign of D&D 5e that just reached a huge bossfight. It's the culmination of an arc we started 2 years ago. Recently jumped into a Pathfinder first edition and have been digging a little more crunch (and jank).
I have been considering dipping my toe into GMing soon, probably in 5e since that is what I am most familiar with. Planning to run one of the starting modules just to familiarize myself with the concept of DMing.
I think one thing that may help with this is letting users stay on their instance when browsing others. Right now, if I want to hop over to another instance, I can definitely link there or comment if using the appropriate channel, but actually going there makes it seem like I am signed out. Implementing features like this https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1048 would help make the experience feel more cohesive, and encourage exploration of other instances without confusing users and accidentally encouraging sticking to one's own instance.
Appalachian horror is such a good subgenre. The Old Gods of Appalachia podcast showed me there's a lot of untapped potential. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDNou9zgeAqN4XRuE7wc7iMW7o8m7JjpS