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...Years ago, the web used to be a place where individuals made things. They made homepages, forums, and mailing lists, and a small bit of money with it. Then companies decided they could do things better. They created slick and feature-rich platforms and threw their doors open for anyone to join. They put boxes in front of us, and we filled those boxes with text and images, and people came to see the content of those boxes...

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I'm still seeing 0.0.33 listed...

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I've never been but this looks yum. Anyone else going?

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Has anyone else been having trouble with casting the OPB stream lately? In the past, I could say, "hey google, play OPB radio" and it would play on my speakers. Now, it plays the opening ad but then goes silent. Am I the only one this is happening to?

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    Yeah. I worry about how many things are moving into Discord. They are giving so much away for free right now that it stifling competition. Eventually they will need to turn a profit and, with competition reduced, they can get real shitty with it.

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    The unofficial black cat community!
    How are we going to pay for all this?
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    Wikipedia is set up as a nonprofit. They have annual fundraising drives asking their users for money. They also have an endowment and receive grants.

    A donation drive could be a good model but the decentralized nature of the platform would complicate things.

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    With all the new users coming to Lemmy, myself included, I thought we could pin a FAQ to this community. Here are a few questions that I’ve seen floating about the last few days. If anyone would like to take a stab at answering them in the comments, I’ll edit the post and add them here. 1. What is Lemmy? Lemmy is a link aggregation social network similar to reddit but with some important differences. Lemmy has no advertising or tracking, it's open source, and is compatible with the fediverse. This means it can communicate with other fediverse sites. 2. How does Lemmy compare to Reddit? Lemmy is decentralized. It is not owned by a single person/group/corporation. Lemmy is open source and anyone can create their own server/instance. There is no advertising or tracking on Lemmy. Subreddits are called communities. Posts are still voted on. For more information, see this [guide](https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/introduction.html). 3. What does federated mean? Federated means a group of individuals that work together but each keep their own autonomy. The word "fediverse" stems from the word federated. This means that each site/instance in the fediverse can communicate with each other but they remain separate entities with their own rules, norms, interfaces, uses, etc. 4. Does it matter what instance I make an account on and what are the implications? 5. Can I transfer my account to another instance in the future? 6. If my instance shuts down, what happens to my posts, comments, messages, history, etc? 7. Can I subscribe to communities outside of my home instance? How? Yes. First search the [Lemmy Community-Browser](https://browse.feddit.de/) for a community --> Click through and visit the community --> copy the url --> return to home community (lemmy.ml) --> click magnifying glass icon at the top of the page to search --> search for the copied URL --> click through to the result --> click subscribe. 8. How does moderation work? 9. Are bots allowed? 10. Are there Android and iOS apps? Yes. Android has [Jerboa ](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jerboa) and iOS has [Mlem](https://testflight.apple.com/join/xQfmkJhc). It is early days for both these apps. Mlem is still a TestFlight app and Jerboa is in Alpha. 11. What is the best way to find new communities? The [Lemmy Community-Browser](https://browse.feddit.de/) is a list of all lemmy communities across all instances. An outside community can be subscribed to by searching for the URL in your home instance's search field. Ex. Search [LCB ](https://browse.feddit.de/) for a community --> Click through and visit the community --> copy the url --> return to home community (lemmy.ml) --> click magnifying glass icon at the top of the page to search --> search for the copied URL --> click through to the result --> click subscribe. 12. Can I subscribe/follow a user? … What else?

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    I got a quick update tonight and now I'm crashing about every 5 min. It usually happens when a transition is happening - opening a map, teleporting, etc. Am I the only one? I'm on V1.0.2.42338

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