Kirk

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[–] Kirk@startrek.website 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

And nothing of value was lost

EDIT: After reading the comments in this thread I think I should elaborate...

The only thing that makes Reddit not X or Facebook are their niche communities. For years, Reddit corporate has been moving to homogenize them and shove them all into a single algorithmic slop feed that auto-adjusts to what you linger on like Tiktok. /r/all and /r/popular are basically just endless slop feeds of bots reposing engagement bait for people with brain rot to look at while they poop. But having slop and topic-based communities in a single feed invites those brainrotted people to jump into any community they are not a member of and vomit all over it without learning the rules/culture/etc.

Honestly I think focusing on and prioritizing their myriad small communities and not the people who want slop feed is a smart move for user retention. I still won't go back there, but I think it's a smart move.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago

Funny you should ask, I am actually playing Galaxy for the first time right now!

All I can say is that I really enjoyed Sunshine and will probably finish 100%ing it one day. With the patches I mentioned it feels about as modern as Galaxy (I suppose they are only five years apart). But better or worse? I can't yet say. I love the "Fludd" mechanic and find it really satisfying in 60fps.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I played it on Dolphin emulator with a 60fps patch and some HD textures. It aged really well.

EDIT: Also a widescreen patch!

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 17 points 1 month ago (4 children)

CupHead is coming up on ten years old and I don't think it has ever dipped below $10 on Steam.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I have been curious about this too. Something like a thinknode looks like a simple solution.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 4 points 1 month ago

Depends on what "percentage of Lemmy" means, but they have probably something like 20% of active users. Most of their communities have analogues elsewhere.

I do think that as Lemmy grows the idea of a "general purpose instance" will go away and online communities will form their own instances.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 5 points 1 month ago

Uber famously did the exact same thing (underpriced it's service to gain monopoly status), one big difference here is that Uber's product actually did what it said on the tin.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

shelfmark. It even integrates directly with calibre web companion.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 50 points 1 month ago (2 children)

“I genuinely cannot believe that a gay character on a TV show in 2026 can cause this much commotion. Y’all, like, I thought… I don’t know what I thought. Like, y’all gotta understand, I live in New York City, right? So you could be purple, in Brooklyn, and nobody cares. Nobody gives a ****. You know what I mean? So, like, when I come to the internet, and I see, like, all of these feathers being ruffled… it’s jarring, but, nevertheless, I guess it signals that there’s more work to do, so, yeah, uh, anyways, let’s talk about Kyle kissing Jay-Den in episode seven, y’all.”

😂 Gene protect this man

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 12 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I believe it was supposed to monitor your jellyfin library and look for potential upgrades.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I noticed that they had an account on the same instance as StarTrek.website. I'll check it out! @Trek_Academy@tenforward.social

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 4 points 1 month ago

No, the URL in the post is to a .jpg

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