Help wanted navigating the social aspect of the game

[Manikku]

Well to talk to people in the same map as you they usually talk in "Shout" or "Yell" so that everyone can hear it.
As for linkshells youd need to find a few recruiting usually you can find them in game if not reddit or the official website can help you with that.

My names Gavin Laville in game and im on behemoth, id recommend joining a small linkshell or FC instead of a huge one until youre ready to raid (if at all) cause bigger linkshells tend to have their newer members ignored imo

[Geehew]

Hey there and thanks for responding! I unfortunately don't know anything about reddit, but I'll double my efforts here on the website. How about servers? I've seen people use /say on Balmung, but only for a bit of RP and don't recall any sort of map wide chat. My current character's on Midgardsormr as it doesn't appear to suffer from queue times and I can create characters freely. Do I need to turn on "Shout" or "Yell" or is that on by default and it's just that people aren't talkative or recruiting?