/r/StarTrek founder and primary steward from 2008-2021
Currently on the board of directors for StarTrek.website
This is a really interesting chart. A lot of N64 games were $70 and even $80 at launch which is upwards of $150 today. Just crazy.
I like “Waking Moments” (the one where Chakotay knows if he sees Earth’s moon then it’s not real). It’s creepy!
Also I like “These are the Voyages”. I await your ridicule.
I was just thinking the same thing. It’s rare that the bullshit from tech companies is so quickly identified packaged and labeled like that (even if we are still calling it “AI”).
I wouldn’t put a lot of faith in the intelligence of a woman who would marry a Lemmy user.
The average Joe or Jane have no idea about ad blocking possibilities. They think ads are just the normal price you pay for surfing the web.
Actually about a third of all users have an adblocker installed. Adblocking has been mainstream for a while, no doubt why Google finally stopped pretending they were OK with it.
What you’ve expressed is not pessimism it’s cynicism.
The difference is that Lemmy is not centralized. So it can’t really be over-populated. If an instance is poorly modded and doesn’t have that vibe you like you can find one that does. The more people using Lemmy the more options there will be, it’s the opposite of Reddit.
I quit because contributing my labor made me complicit.
I get not wanting to grow the userbase of lemmy.world which is already kinda bloated but there is basically infinite space for new instances to be added.
(Copied from the thread on /c/Quark’s)
I quit as the top mod of /r/StarTrek in 2021 in protest against Reddit’s platforming of vaccine disinformation subreddits. Then in 2023 during the API protest, myself and several of the remaining mods (including mods from /r/Risa and /r/DaystromInstitute) started StarTrek.website.
The consensus I’ve seen on Lemmy has been largely “we don’t need to spread the word about our open platforms because Reddit will do something stupid again and there will be another protest and Lemmy will be promoted there”. So I hope we can take this as a lesson that we can’t rely on platforms being shitty in order to switch society over to open standards. We need to do our best to make Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed good as well as known.
I don’t blame you, it’s very disturbing!
That all said I do love how in everyone’s free time they’re all growing and relaxing in healthy ways like sports, painting, learning an instrument or putting on a play.
I don’t have a ton of praise for PIC Season 1, but I found disturbing the number of people we would see on /r/StarTrek saying the problem with it was that the synths weren’t discriminated against enough.
LOL @ the gap where Neelix died
I watched this at full volume at work and my boss offered me a raise what does it mean
In depth open ended thought provoking questions like should really be in DaystromInstitute