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Adding to what the other guy said, you can think of Lemmy as a collection of servers. Right now you're on lemmy.ml, but some people are on https://beehaw.org/ for example. Beehaw is also Lemmy, but it's a different server with different users and communities.

Here's what makes the Fediverse cool though. You don't need to go there to interact with them. You can stay on lemmy.ml and access and comment on Beehaw. When you're on the home page it defaults to "Local", but if you click on "All" you can see posts from different servers. Same thing when you click on "Communities" at the top. It lets you browse communities on different servers by clicking "All".

Let's say you wanted to browse the gaming community on Beehaw. You can write "gaming" in the search field and find gaming@beehaw.org, or you can just type it into your search bar as https://lemmy.ml/c/gaming@beehaw.org

Now you can browse, comment, vote, and interact with that community. I posted this comment from https://kbin.social/ , which is NOT Lemmy, but since the Fediverse is connected we can basically interact with each other from different websites.

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There are so many decent Pokemon clones out there that there's honestly little reason to buy the new ones. From what I've seen they are a total bore fest and way too easy, I think people just need to accept they're kids games and move on. I personally really enjoyed Monster Sanctuary. Even though it's a very different game it gave me the same enjoyment of catching monsters and building a team.

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I legitimately don't understand what they're hoping to gain from the AMA. Unless spez is going to start with "We were wrong, we're rolling back the changes" then there's nothing to be said. They ran over 3rd party apps that millions of their users use for no reason. This will be a total disaster.

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These stories are always wild to me. Who keeps giving unrestricted access for their credit card to children?

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Same boat here. Been using RiF for almost a decade now and have no intention of using the terrible privacy hell Reddit app. There's potential here to be a viable alternative.

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Going to be an uphill battle to go up against Deep Rock Galactic as a co-op dwarf mining game

I like this significantly better than Mastodon

My experience with the Fediverse has only been through Mastodon, through which I struggled to find a community I really gelled with. Either it was supper overwhelming with meme posts or NSFW, or it was too chill to the point of nothing. Or, it was hyperfocused like FOSS/Linux and became uninteresting after awhile. May try again,...

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I'm not quite sure how exactly everything works but it seems like a lot of things on kbin get thrown to /m/random, does anyone know what's up with that? A lot of communities from lemmy show up as a 404 and posts end up there.

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I never really liked Twitter as a concept. It feels like it's built on an "old man yells at cloud" concept where people just shout their thoughts and nobody gains anything from it.

By comparison forums are there to foster discussions and communities. I thought Mastodon would be better but I spent 5 minutes and it's exactly the same nonsense.

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Good luck enforcing something like that.

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I really hope they don't mess with the story any more than they did. The ending of the last one felt like we were walking into Kingdom Hearts territory of nonsensical.

That, and I hope it comes to PC soon after release... FF7R took forever to get over here.

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Reddit’s new API pricing will kill off Apollo on June 30

Faced with 30 days' notice for a $1.6 million monthly bill, Apollo calls it quits.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/reddits-new-api-pricing-will-kill-off-apollo-on-june-30/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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They're all going down. Reddit is killing every 3rd party app so they can harvest data more easily off of their official app and raise API prices.

/kbin update - upvotes, boosts, languages...

Hi everyone, You may have noticed a small change on the website. From now on, upvotes work just like on Lemmy - they are equivalent to Mastodon's "favourite." You can boost a post using the button that replaced "favourite." Another change is that you can now rate and boost your own posts. Boosting has a one-time effect - it...

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Just switched from Lemmy since kbin seems more polished and active. Thanks for your hard work :)

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