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I'd be up for this. !theorville@lemmy.world is doing a similar thing currently. The Orville rewatch has been pretty low-activity as well, generally receiving 1-4 comments each, but I've enjoyed having an excuse to rewatch something at a slower pace than usual. I suspect that might be true even for people who don't comment, where just having a weekly episode schedule is nice regardless of whether people have anything to say about it.

The web site has a list of differences between Lemmy and PieFed:

• Comments with -10 score are collapsed by default.
• Communities are organized into topics. See https://piefed.social/topics.
• Image-heavy communities can have a tiled/masonry view, like https://piefed.social/c/pics@lemmy.world
• People who get downvoted a lot end up with a ‘low reputation’ indicator next to their name. You’ll know it when you see it.
• Hide all posts based on keyword filters.
• Keyboard shortcuts.
• Upvotes in meme communities do not add to reputation.
• Better UI design (somewhat subjective!)
• Improved hotness ranking algorithm (subjective)
• Voting is private.
• See also features for healthy communities.
• Each community has it’s own wiki. Demo

This list isn't exhaustive; one major feature that's not listed there is de-duplication, where reposts all get combined into a single post with a split comment section (one for each individual post).

You're not wrong.

The security guard has since been fired and the police have opened a criminal investigation.

It's marginally less confusing when you see the whole series instead of just this one grandmother poster. Each one has a list of bullets describing a person, with the one thing they all have in common being "Uses drugs".

"Can't do an accent? Talk like C-3PO instead."

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I guess the upside of dedicated communities like this is not having to explicitly tell people "If you don't fall into this specific group, go die in a fire, I don't want your input." Which, as far as I know, is the most polite way you can phrase that.

Eventually the messages started coming with crypto addresses to help her with her sick dad and college tuition.

One thing I did say in my other comment is I like lemm.ee admins federation policy of block the spam and illegal instances and letting me block NSFW and bots

Ah, right. I was talking more from a broader software perspective rather than individual instances; I'm not sure what individual instances' federation policies are like. Probably the big three that people want to know about most of the time are lemmy.ml, lemmygrad.ml and hexbear.net. I know the mainline instance piefed.social allows the first one but blocks the other two, so that probably extends a bit further than what you're looking for. I'm not sure if there are any other instances that have looser federation settings.

I also remember hearing about the Mbin version when the Kbin dev fell off the face of the earth and meaning to check it out (I’m sure you can guess how that went) mind telling me about that. Again like piefed all ik is it’s a separate platform that can view lemmy content

I'd say the most significant feature Mbin has over Lemmy is microblog support. You can switch between threads (Lemmy/Reddit-style) and microblogs (Mastodon/Twitter-style) and post or read from both "sides" of the fediverse. If you have people you're interested in following but don't want to set up a whole Mastodon account, etc., Mbin allows you to do that. For example, I follow a couple of celebrities with fediverse accounts, some software developers (web browsers, games, emulators) and a few friends who post.

The other big thing Mbin has currently is that it automatically translates remote links to their local equivalent. I'm on fedia.io but if somebody from a foreign instance or even foreign software links to a post on their server, Mbin will link me to the local version instead so that I can immediately vote and reply, without having to track it down manually.

Something big that Mbin is lacking currently is the ability to block instances you don't like. You can block individual users or communities, but if there's an entire instance you want to get rid of, your only option is to petition the instance administrators to defederate from it. Since that's an important feature for you, I don't think Mbin is right for you, at least until that feature (which is planned) gets added.

Cook's razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by screwing up git commands."

They were conceived on an adult film shoot.

His Tenacious D bandmate, Kyle Gass, made a joke about assassinating Donald Trump. Black put out a statement criticizing and distancing himself from Gass while also placing the band on hiatus, cancelling a then-ongoing world tour. People feel he threw a longtime friend under the bus in order to protect his public image.