For it to be a substitute, it doesn’t have to taste the exact same. It just has to have similar properties.

That is really interesting actually. wsl1 or 2?

You can pay for a VPS online.

lemm.ee is the best for federating with almost everyone.

lemm.ee federates with nearly everyone!

So is semen iirc.

I remember some roblox games I used to play let you zoom out, look into a secret room and take loot as well.

Kagi’s lens are the equivalent of custom feeds for searching (i think, I haven’t used kagi).

But yeah, ddg bangs basically just jump you to a search page on a website.

I try to ask questions here instead of reddit in the hopes that lemmy will pop up in google for someone.

I’d say having those groups isn’t bad in itself, but they should crosspost posts to and from the small groups.

Kagi (paid search engine, haven’t tried it myself) has a fediverse forums (lemmy, piefed, mbin) lens.