It's a licensed IP game, and recently those have gotten a reputation of being decent hits.
On top of that, this generated a lot of hype on Reddit when it first came out. A lot of people were excited to see how the game could possibly pull it off.
Spoiler: it couldn't.
AROOOOO BROTHER MAYBE LOOK INTO BETTER HYGIENE
THINK ABOUT HOW SHE FEELS AROOOOOOOO
You should be able to uncheck "Show Read" here in your user settings:
Then you'll hide any post that I believe you comment on or upvote/downvote, I think? I'm not sure how it counts something as being "read," that could use some work/clarification. There are times where I feel neutral about a post and don't want to upvote or downvote (or I see something I dislike on Beehaw, which explicitly disallows downvotes).
Does that mean these'll finally be reasonably priced again???
If you go to https://beehaw.org/instances, you'll see a big list of instances which are allowed...
...and one that is explicitly blocked.
See, Lemmy caught on with certain groups very early on. The main Lemmy instance has always been left-leaning. But one group that really latched on to Lemmy from the extremely early days was tankies.
These guys have their own community, "Lemmygrad" - IIRC, their servers are even based in China, or they claim to be. They were the most active users of Lemmy before Reddit shot themselves in the foot, and their influence has been felt across a lot of the other instances. If you ever went to GenZedong on Reddit, you get an idea of what they're like. (There's even a version of that subreddit on Lemmygrad.)
One reason why I switched to Beehaw is because they've blocked that instance. If you're on the "main" lemmy.ml instance run by the developers and you go to your version of /r/all, you'll see posts from Lemmygrad show up pretty frequently - because Lemmygrad still has a fairly large community, and they're still pretty active relative to the size of Lemmy itself.
If people go to join-lemmy.org like they're "meant" to, they'll almost certainly see Lemmygrad at the top of the instance list. Anecdotally, a lot of Redditors see that and get turned off, thinking this place is full of tankies. (And, to be fair... before everyone from Reddit started showing up, a lot of Lemmy was full of tankies...)
Even on Lemmy itself, there's a lot of people who dislike that side of the project. They're authoritarian at best, and genocide deniers at worst. And the people who created Lemmy are at least sympathetic to them, even if they don't outright endorse it publicly.
But. Lemmy is open-source. No one person or ideology can control the project, as it can always be forked. Even the creators of Lemmy itself have no control over what happens at Beehaw. So steering people away from the tankie side of Lemmy and towards a more, uh, "normal" instance is for the best, especially since this place needs to grow if it's to be taken seriously as a Reddit competitor.
Beehaw has chosen to step away from that drama by explicitly banning that instance, hence why I've been sending people on Reddit here instead of mentioning join-lemmy.org.
I'm reasonably certain that if a password has the character "," in it, Jeroba won't log in to that account
I'm not actually sure what the problematic character is - it might have been " " or another special character (obviously I'd rather not reveal my password 😉).
I usually use full, grammatically correct sentences for passwords ("passphrases"). It works in desktop, but in Jeroba if your password has that phrase it won't log you in.
Instead, you'll be listed as "Anonymous" and you won't be able to take any action other than switch to a different account or sign out. It took me to my home instance, but I couldn't actually do anything.
After changing my password to a more "traditional" one, everything worked fine.
I've also been recommending Beehaw to people on Reddit because they're less likely to run into, uh, certain people from certain other Lemmy instances.