MochiGamer

Its reddit community used to be a more accepting leftist space with a lot of queer humor. But over time the Libs slowly got worse. I remember when I first joined it felt like it was run by actual leftists (mostly baby leftists and anarkiddies but still) The first "kick tankies of of r/196" wasn't as well received as this one..

So when Ukraine war broke out they got... So much worse. I have no hope for the instance tbh and am glad they banned me, if only for 3 days as apparently I'm only a borderline tankie lmao. We have our own 196 which is much better tbh.~~___~~

Lets Enjoy Meeting Merry Yiffers, finally a slogan I can get behind!

Can testify to just how good the story is. I've only completed a single store line but the game is rather short (about 30-40 hours for a slow first play through I think?) encouraging you to go through repeatedly to find all the different story progression possibilities. Like OP said choice REALLY matters in this game and can have consequences sometimes altering the entire path of the story unlike most games where the storylines usually "converge" back to a singular plotline.

The combat is comparable to Pillars of Eternity and there is an interesting magic rune system, but it's story is where it shines, each faction and storyline is fully fleshed out with interesting conversations, companions, and lore. Additionally unique questlines, companions, locations, and more are accessible or change according on your choices. It's worth at least 1 playthrough but there is enough for about 5 or so playthroughs through the various branches.

You made an account on lemmy.ml which means you automatically can check out the communities on this instance and through the federation. You can subscribe and treat this instance just like any normal forum/reddit type thing.

A quick note, lemmy.ml is the instance itself. When you see asklemmy@lemmy.ml or Linux@lemmy.ml the XXX@ is the name of the community inside that instance. Also lemmy@lemmy.ml is essentially the "homepage" community for the instance. Like a webpage almost. So if you see Android@lemmy.world that is the Android community on the lemmy.world instance.

However this is then where the "federation" comes in.

We're part of the "federation" of servers, meaning by default you can participate in "linked/federated" instances and subscribe/post/comment within them. Think of this like reddit1, 2, 3, and so on all exist. You're on 2 but can utilize all parts of 1, 3, etc from the same account. It's like your account is a general purpose account allowing you to contribute to multiple instances separate from your "home instance" which in your case is the @lemmy.ml part of your name.

Go to Communities and you'll see "Subscribed, Local, and All".

Subscribed is the ones you've subscribed to, ground breaking.

Local are the communities within the instance you're currently accessing through, so for you most likely it'll be lemmy.ml communities but for me it's lemmygrad.ml communities.

And "all" is the list of communities under all federated instances organized by (I think) user count/month. These are all open for your contribution.

However to all this I will say there are some caveats. Firstly some instances (beehaw for example) has defederated lemmy.ml. Therefore, if you're a beehaw user you can't see lemmy.ml content. However, do to the way the federation works us here on lemmy.ml can see beehaw content if you go to access it since "defederating" only works one way.

However, the content won't load by default or be stored on this server unless someone requests/accesses it first. At the time of requesting the information it'll download a local copy of that post to be stored on the "requesting" instance. (I believe this is the correct way of describing it)

However, contributions you and others make will stay only viewable to the lemmy.ml instance and will not be sent back to beehaw.

There is more technically information behind this but this is just a starter and over time you'll come to understand the interesting quirks of the tech. Additionally there are admins of the Instances (lemmy.ml, lemmy.world, etc) and then mods of the communities. They're separate and you may be blocked from a community but not the instance. So keep in mind to double check rules whenever you are on a new instance/community.

Sorry if it seems like a lot but just trying to help out without making it confusing, I'm new here too haha. Best of luck and welcome to lemmy!

Some additional info... https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/introduction.html

I would prefer this, I still want to see the content if I desire but warn me before I yell into the void.

With the mass of redditors leaving Reddit it's no surprise that the federation map has so much red around us. I only hope lemmy.world keeps us federated because they feel very much like the link between worlds for me. The users are a mixed bag and full of "RED FASH" libs, but having a community that is large and can decide for themselves by visiting and observing us/our users is much better than this de-fed stuff. Much more in the spirit of FOSS and etc also.

Nothing really changes since we could just make a non lemmygrad account, just prevents the lemmygrad (and sometimes lemmy) from being seen by "normies" so people can keep the projection that we're anti-LGBT facist nazi sympathizers going longer.

We also can still see their content as we wish through our lemmygrad account and even comment on the "lemmygrad" version of it (not sure if this would be a shared version with lemmy and co but I think they'd also see our comments?), they're just "muting" our community really. The way the fediverse works will we can see their content as long as Lemmygrad doesn't block them back, which I doubt us or Lemmy.ml will be blocking any of these places. for instance we have our own version of 196 thanks to the large "anti-tankie" stance they're taking but haven't blocked the lib version at all.

Our versions of these anti-federation communities may seem smaller but keep in mind our users are more keen on FOSS and supporting this project instead of just making Reddit 2.0 and as such I think the community (here or on lemmy.ml) will show more "heart" than the more close minded instances. After all these groups have a lot of... reddit type behavior in their posts and it's actually a huge turn off for me and others.

I mean they talk about us the way RFA talks about Cuba or DPRK. We're the DPRK of the Fediverse at this point and I'm chill with that. If anything they're filtering MY experience so I don't have to handle too much libshit

I couldn't reply to message in a community outside of Lemmy/lemmygradand was so confused... Till I found our you can check modlogs and WOW there are a lot of people in that modlog blanketly banning "tankies". I'm actually upset I got banned for being a "borderline" tankie. Dang it I wanted the full tankie ban what is this shit.

There is nothing about the core ideology of Marxism Leninism that is opposed to queer rights. Actually there are a lot of queer people in the community at large who are communist and findable on YouTube or Lemmy. I'm one of them.

I'm not here to teach everything and I trust you know enough to be able to look up more as you wish. If you want an example of an ML nation that is pro queer look up the Cuba Family Code changes made recently. They're among the most progressive in the world and help to guarente rights for trans people, lgbt, and more. Additionally China has a large trans healthcare clinic first of its kind recently opened in Beijing and a well known trans TV host. Vietnam also has a vibrant lgbt community and even in North Korea homosexuality and cross dressing to my research are not criminalized despite lacking public interest/support.

The days of old are over and new communist nations can and are doing better to ditch reactionary tendencies especially around queer rights.

I get you're trying to make a big point here about China, but within the last 3 years they opened a multidisciplinary trans healthcare clinic in Beijing and additionally a well known TV host in the country is transgender and this is easily findable even within US new sources. It may still not be culturally fully accepted but I don't see how the government is doing anything against us when they're literally opening trans healthcare clinics. Hell there were trans expat teachers who used to move to China for teaching before the changes in education laws for expat teacher licensing.

Just the very idea they make any profit despite utilizing almost universal unpaid labour is ridiculous. The only issue I see with moving forward is that the user base leaving that website and flocking to say... here; except for those willing to understand workers rights, anti-capitalism, or FOSS, the majority of new users seem to only seek to replicate Reddit, and honestly reddit as a whole has needed to rot off for a while thanks to not only the bots but the general and growing toxicity of the websites' userbase and management seeking to continue that dopamine rush driven content stream and drama theatre.
I love this website for what it is even though I just arrived, I don't want it to become reddit or replicate reddit, these people can't seem to break their redditor addictions and see there can be something NEW here unrestricted by capitalistic profit desires. Hope they come around tbh.