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I would personally ban/defed from Monero.town because it’s a scam-ass crypto instance.

Every time I see a “guide” like this it’s always from a monero.town user. The last guy who was posting “reviews” was bitching about how he got stiffed paying for a game or something with crypto, and nobody had any sympathy because when you don’t pay with real money you don’t get the guarantee of a service rendered.

Yeah I got one of those implants Geordi had in First Contact. They really wanted the Borg parts though.

Once they established her character as a, well, human, she was able to actually continue with the momentum set up in Voyager.

The problem initially was that the Fenris Rangers stuff was weird random bullshit with no real explanation and effectively just made her a morally grey mercenary at best and an outright murderer at worst. I remember reading initially when she got the Picard script that she had a panic attack because she could not recognize the character at all.

I will never get the image of Icheb getting his eye ripped out and cut out of my head. Stuff like that was absolutely unnecessary and made the show weaker overall.

You guys realize that the server rules regionally only apply regionally, and not globally right? If you don’t like the rules of your nation state it’s very easy to move your hosting elsewhere where the rules you are trying to avoid are not going to apply.

Just because India has some massive breaking sweeping law doesn’t really change anything about our other servers if they are just not in that jurisdiction. Lemmy.ca is not going down for Indian rules, because we’re hosted in Canada. Lemmy.ml I would imagine is also not hosted in India.

The fediverse is not even big enough (we’re about the size cumulatively of like a medium subreddit) to really want to actively police.

It’s like saying Iran or anywhere else in the Middle East has powerful internet control, as if that’s going to change literally anything hosted outside of those incredibly repressive nations. Unless India has some agreement with other states long-term to remove content they disagree with, literally nothing is going to change. I know North American sentiment towards India is not strong these days because of the recent assassinations (and/or attempts) within our borders of Sikh “extremists”.

Rapid transit is not going to be worthwhile if it’s not affordable.

How does America find a way to fuck literally everything up? What was this system designed by the car and/or plane lobby?

If Google actually made me a hentai waifu bot that would be based.

I wish everything was a bit more standardized between kbin/mbin/Lemmy. It feels like we have these forks of the project that do different things because they emulate different behaviors of other sites, and reaching parity seems difficult without a lot of developer discussion.

I like a few things about kbin but for a while it was the instance causing the most spam on my feed because federated mod actions broke and spam cleaned up locally would not get cleaned on other instances. I saw Ernest back posting again so I guess development has resumed and some of those issues have been banged out.

But it doesn’t bootstrap conversation properly, because some OP on an entire other website is asking for help, and we’re talking to brick walls.

Lemmy is more helpful for Linux help than reddit is anyways, because on reddit they’ll tell you to fuck off and search, while on Lemmy I can still get hands-on support with a willing community.

That’s the problem with federation though, you have 20 servers with 20 communities of the same thing, and there’s not many people redirecting and curating, because everybody wants to be a powermod. When we had the reddit migration it started a chain reaction nightmare of creating an infinite number of dead, useless, redundant communities. I like to use sports as a good example. Fanaticus.social is designed to be the premiere sports instance, yet all the local instances, like .ca or midwest.social, also will have their requisite team pages.

I think it only serves to continue to keep reddit afloat. If our stuff does get crossposted, then we’re effectively just still using reddit. The point was to leave the platform because of the leadership, not kinda continue to half use it by proxy.

It’s a bandage that needs to be ripped off, not re-applied.

I don’t think there are any high quality discussions left to be had with the current suite of redditors.

E: I see you’re getting downvoted and that sucks - I for one appreciate our discussion.

Eliminate all bots.

Crossposts are useless because the communities are not interactive.

The strength of the Lemmy community in my opinion is the high quality of discussion, and there is no discussion to be had on reddit reposts when we are not having our content reposted onto reddit.

Netflix also made a killing by creating the ad-supported tier, because the ads more than cover the cost of lowering the subscription. My folks pay for Netflix with ads but you can block them with a DNS sink like AdGuard or a Pi-Hole.

I think it’s a scam honestly. Netflix’s library has shrunk with all the other streaming services coming into the market. It was convenient when it was the only game in town but now it’s just one of a dozen services feeling more like cable than streaming.

I just saw an article where Apple TV+ was going to bundle with Paramount+ for a lower rate.

I’m so tired of reddit crossposts, they’re fucking useless.

No, I don’t feel foolish for having basically humanity’s entire music library available to me on a service.

When I used to pirate off SoulSeek I was a lot more limited in what I listened to, but Spotify is more than just a music service as it acts as a reliable way to discover new and old music to your liking.

Piracy is a service problem, and Spotify is a good service.

Fediverser looks like a project that’s supposed to ease the onboarding process from reddit, looks like you can sign up with a reddit account to have access to Lemmy, but I am not entirely sure.

I don’t really mind the size of the community these days; I feel like if we start getting more and more people from reddit we’re going to get the people we wanted to avoid by leaving the place. Right now it feels like there’s not a ton of content, but there’s a decent amount of discussion, and it’s of high quality. I feel like an easier entrance to the platform is going to degrade the experience, as shitty as that sounds.

I had the same problem with lemmit.online, and with lemmit.online the owner said “yeah this is a bot, this whole instance is for reddit reposts, if you don’t like it defederate from me” - which .ca did.

I can’t stand bot instances or bots in general that are reposting from reddit, because it’s not valuable content for the fediverse - the OP doesn’t see what we’re saying and if we’re troubleshooting something that’s been crossposted it’s literally just on deaf ears.

The only bot I actually like is the ITNBot which is for ImproveTheNews - it posts neutral, pro-, and anti-stance information relevant to the article being posted, showing you all sides of the issue.

I listen to alt rock, classic rock, blues and hip-hop. Definitely similar mixes.

I listen to a mix of classic rock, alt rock, blues and hip-hop and it gave me Bozeman as well.

Bozeman, Montana.

Fine with me, that’s where Zefram Cochrane launched the first human-built warp vessel.

In the 60s, even a hippie could afford a Microbus.

What’s the base cost of even their lowest priced model?