Kirk

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 13 hours ago

BlueSky is not federated. Also German users have outsized representation on Mastodon but most of the network is outside Germany.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 15 hours ago

I love the moments when it's demonstrated that Ferengi can be actually very astute when it comes to diplomacy/interplanetary relations... their culture just has a completely different set of values.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

Yeah it's certainly not the worst series of episodes and as you implied it does some good world building. It just doesn't do it for me the same way that "why is everyone treating O'Brien like he's shady?" does.

 

Been watching DS9 Season two and have been very impressed with the quality. I remembered it being "pretty good" but in my memory it was "the season with "The Circle" trilogy, "Melora", "Rivals" and "The Maquis", episodes and story lines that never really did it for me. I think that made me forget how many really good one-off episodes were also here, to name a few:

  • "Necessary Evil"
  • "Rules of Acquisition"
  • "The Alternate"
  • "Armageddon Game"
  • "Whispers"
  • "Paradise"
  • "Shadowplay"

All bangers!

Also I love how this season ever so slowly drip-drops dominion references culminating with the season finale "The Jem Hadar"

Wink

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

Those look like a forbidden snack! I also didn't know about that book thanks for sharing.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wish more people would understand that mastodon can talk to lemmy can talk to piefed etc…

I mean, raising awareness of that is the purpose of this community, yeah?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

They made a comment saying there are "only 300 users" so I think it's just a misunderstanding of federation.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Honestly I am of the mindset that the fewer people on Reddit the better, MAGAts included since we can always be defederate from their communities on the Fediverse anyway. But I also doubt they will ever leave centralized platforms since time and time again it's been shown that their "ideology" (in as much as it exists) depends largely on having someone to provoke/convert that is forced to listen to them. Reddit makes a lot of money off of the "engagement" that they produce.

 

Someone should probably jump in and explain what federation means.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Back in the day Nike was fashion-non-grata due to their well known child labor practices. The fact that they reinvented the brand to the degree that they actually became aligned with punk/skater culture still blows my mind. Advertising is a powerful tool.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nike_sweatshops

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

I once went to Greece and the BnB host flat out told me I was there at the wrong time of year and my vacation could have been a lot better. I found it oddly refreshing.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

People are talking about privacy but the big reason is that it gives you, the owner, control over everything quickly without ads or other uneeded stuff. We are so used to apps being optomized for revenue and not being interoperable with other services that it's easy to forget the single biggest advantage of computers which is that programs and apps can work together quickly and quietly and in the background. Companies provide products, self-hosting provides tools.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

I'm very familliar with the "Year of the Linux Desktop" joke but I also can't remember a time previously when Linux was getting this level of mainstream attention.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

A majority of registered voters in the US have no party affiliation actually.

 

Note that r/coolguides is a very "normie" subreddit and may require extra handholding. There are a lot of people who don't seem to understand what "open source" means. Some looking for "The Lemmy app" etc. Be patient and helpful!

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