Sarsaparilla

I think what you are looking for is kinda related to street epistemology.

I never realized the storylines in Detroit were that short.

quick Google search tells me average play-thru time is 12hrs and completionist is 32hrs, so I dunno what I was looking at. I'm 5hours in, so it remains to be seen whether it's gonna take me 32hours or 64hours minimum. 🤣 You'll have to forgive me, it's the steam sale so I've been looking at lots of games. Not that I need any more because I've probably only ever touched a quarter of my library, if that!

someone said all the hoops would keep the idiots out,

Yeah I liked that take as well. That layer of jargon really is a fantastic filter.

get my head around the fact that I had to also join any instance I wanted to respond to

Wait. What? Why are you doing that?

Don't worry, I hear ya! I'm currently 4.9 hours in on my first run of the story game, Detroit. People in the reviews say it is a short game and they have less than 3 hours playtime ... but I don't wanna miss any narrative or clues! haha!

I joined Mastadon in December and that's when I first tried to understand it all. I researched a server to join and it was right confusing ... what if I picked the wrong one? Then I pretty much abandoned the account because I didn't understand how to stay on my own server while browsing around (also didn't help that I'd never used Twitter either, so I didn't actually know what I sposed to be doing lol).

Then the whole reddit debacle happened and I signed up for a Lemmy & Kbin. And there was all the jargon again. But I think because I was actually jumping ship from reddit, this time I wanted my move to have staying power. So it was unusual for me to "skip the tutorial" but I was getting so frustrated with the jargon, while I could see others were already having conversations. And it was through the participation that the jargon finally defined itself. I even use my mastodon now, as well!

I think a great many users came to the Fediverse because they were not happy with their experience on FB, Reddit et al and were looking for something that is not that. Why should those users then be expected to recreate that model, or allow that content into this community? People here have already left those massive communities, and connections, and you speak like they lament that choice.

It took me hours of trying to read through not-my-kind-of-jargon to understand

I started off going down that road of trying to understand it, but my laziness and impatience got in the way and said "just start using it and you'll work it out." And that's exactly what happened for me. In a way, the explanations made it all sound much more confusing than it really is. Sometimes you just gotta take a deep breath and dive in.

It's currently 2.9 stars on my Playstore. I've given it one star and a scathing review. Thanks for the heads-up. I hadn't thought about changing my review when I uninstalled it a couple of weeks ago.

That's awesome. I had to double-check the link to be certain I wasn't at geocities.

Kbin is very early access, but they are just different website software that essentially do the same thing - which is to communicate with other networking instances in "the fediverse" through a shared "protocol" called Activity Pub. The diagram of the tree in the linked wikipedia might help you visualise it.

Kbin includes a "microblogging" aspect as it is trying to also incorporate Mastodon (decentralised twitter) as well. There's other software too like Peertube (decentralised Youtube) and Pixelfed (decentralised images) but I dunno how well they all interact with each other yet.

If the owners of your instance (you're on Lemmy.world) blocks another instance, then you would have to go to the other "instance" (effectively, their actual website) to view the content. You would have to make an account at their instance to interact with the content on their site.

Alternatively, you could also make an account with a different lemmy instance (or kbin/etc.) that federates with them (but I didn't wanna complicate the above explanation too much.)

Amazon Prime (because it comes with the service), and Netflix (until anyone on my account gets a "shared password" block, then I'm cancelling it).

“But Reddit leadership has all the funds they need to hire people to perform those extra tasks we formerly undertook as volunteer moderators, and we’d be happy to collaborate with them if they choose to do so.”

Hope they charge big bucks for that highly specialised training they've offered.