Didn’t it ultimately achieve its aim with the creation of Lower Decks?

Honestly I hope it shuts down. This provider caters to racists, fascists, misogynists and the like.

Who gives a fuck? Corporate social media cater to idiots too, just more common varieties.

Why does it matter what Kanye tweets about if I enjoy his music? Why do the politics of my favorite FOSS program’s maintainer matter, or what commentary they include in documentation, or the presence/lack of a flag in a social media handle? Why does it matter that a public demonstration I’m at has some fellow demonstraters whose lifestyles/politics I find abhorrent?

All you advertise to the world with this fearful mindset is that your behaviour will change on a dime given the slightest chance of bad optics. It’s a rotten way to live life.

Governments and marketers absolutely love people who think like that.

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Of all Lemmy comms to post a sentiment like this one on lol

talking points like, “why don’t women look feminine aymore,” “why are characters designed for diversity/inclusion first before story,” “Concord sucks lol.”

They’re fair observations. Convergent, homogenous graphic design plagues big-budget game production.

Ubi is the sort of mob that could put out a title set in Georgian England and offer a cast that includes among others a queer green-haired ship’s captain, a Chinese bailiff and a Rastafarian archbishop. There’s a place for getting whimsical with character creation, but done often enough (and across so many genres), it becomes self-satirizing.

PS also check out https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/991452-pixel-pirate-ii-attack-of-the-astro-elvis-video-clone

My theory is Uncle Sam’s fingerprints are on high east coast gas prices. Giving it away for nothing has to put pressure on Russia’s LNG export income. The donkeys that head Origin, etc. are on board because they can gouge the home market as compensation, knowing (as part of the deal) that Canberra won’t contemplate a reservation policy.

TNG 3x03 The Survivors. Trek works just as well when introspective personal drama gets priority over the science fiction.

One of these days I’ll post my maiden TNG viewing notes…

During my TOS viewings I started to imagine him only using products with Scottish names.

The mod posted a Stalin-style ideological purge thread. Oh dear.

Activity in other communities is irrelevant. This is a shitty R_ddit habit I’d like to see everyone on Lemmy drop.

You need to formally complain to your bank, OP.

You’ll find that these professions have a vested interest in maintaining network effects, and as such will view Mast/Blue as threats to their networking infrastructure. They don’t want to dilute the importance of the platform their patronage systems rely on (let alone destroy it) - in fact its centrality is why they leverage it to advance their careers. Artists I can see understanding platform agnosticism to some extent, but for the other two groups, it’s simply not in their DNA. The gatekeeping is a feature for them.

‘The medium is the message’ as a Canadian theorist once said.

The domain is leased to SEO lizards https://larslofgren.com/forbes-marketplace/

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Lots of banned artist and album names that will return zero results, unless you do something like search for a song or two that’s on the album you want and finding the data that way.

The only objectionable hurdles are the insurmountable ones

Last Christmas I gave a family member a flash drive containing ~10 high quality movie encodes, basically a shortlist of the year’s personal highlights I think they’d enjoy too. I don’t know if they’ve used it, but I’m going to make a habit of it until I hear otherwise. A drive for a handful movies is cheap enough to not worry about if it’s never seen again. Give them a large capacity drive however, or access to a Plex server, and paralysis of choice occurs.

Data and metadata about you are a kind of digital noose that hangs loose about your neck, until a third party* pulls it tight to hang you.

You’re right to feel bitter. You’re the victim of an abusive software stack. But it’s important that you come away with an understanding of why R_ddit was able to identify you individually, and why the ways in which we interface with the web really do matter, despite normie’s typical self-justifying complaints.

*Anyone, identifiable or not, without warning, for any reason, at any time

There are contexts where such a statement is fine. Even in a context where it could be construed as rude and prejudiced, it still doesn’t matter, because it’s such a milquetoast insult. A shitty throwaway putdown on the level of ‘okay, boomer’ or ‘male, pale and stale’.

Overmoderation on the public web is as much of an issue as its lack.

The he/him she/her labels on social media profiles are also a pretty reliable timesaver.