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It also supports community migration, where the old content (that the PieFed instance knows about) remains available but the community is now local to that instance instead of elsewhere.

https://peertube.wtf/w/vq9GtVwjVUG2xzC5owADR8

As you're kind of implying by putting "app" in scare quotes, it's really an entirely separate platform. Any service that implements ActivityPub can theoretically access any part of the fediverse. There's a subset of the fediverse (sometimes called the threadiverse) which platforms like Lemmy and PieFed are built to work with, where you have threads organized into communities and up- and downvote stuff.

PieFed and Lemmy have largely similar goals in the sense that they're two ways to join and interact in the same threadiverse communities, but PieFed's development has been characterized by rapid growth, as indicated in the meme. This means it can do most or all of what Lemmy does, plus extra stuff that's exclusive to PieFed.

Right now, that means things like anonymous voting, de-duplication of posts (they get combined into a single post with separate comment sections of each repost), filtering of "bad" images (like in the Nicole gore saga), warning labels on link posts with unreliable sources, support for "topics" (like multireddits from the old place), a marker for consistently low-reputation users; basically, it's a bunch of quality-of-life stuff. In theory, rapid development could also mean things breaking more often, although I haven't seen any of that personally.

I'm commenting from Mbin, a whole separate platform again, so arguably I'm impartial. I don't have an account on either Lemmy or PieFed.

I don't think I understand what "screenshot" means in this context.

The Picture of Dorian Grok.

The "epilogue", I guess you could call it, was not great. I think I would have enjoyed it most if they had wrapped it up after Ruby notices that poppy has disappeared. It would have been tragic, it would have been emotional, it would have had punch, it would have been a pretty clean ending - just sometimes you don't get the happy one.

This is exactly what I thought was happening. I didn't really expect her to stop existing, but I thought it would just be one of a thousand things that's like "Well, she's out there somewhere and maybe we'll revisit this plot in 20 years." The Susan Foreman connection was probably the main factor that made me think this, as it would have ambiguously set up a "future" plot point without needing to actually do the work, which is fine in a show like Doctor Who.

The retcon of Belinda's history also bothered me. It kind of gave me those Moffat-era vibes, where women could go on fun, exciting adventures and all of that but eventually they'd settle down in the wife and/or mother role that represents the person they're really supposed to be. Boo. I didn't think RTD2 would echo Moffat like that and I'm as much disappointed that Ncuti Gatwa only had two seasons as that Varada Sethu is gone after just one.

Unsurprisingly, I fell off the show pretty hard in the Moffat era; I've seen most of those episodes by now just catching repeat broadcasts, but I stopped purposely watching the show. I know everybody hates it, but I picked it up again when the Chibnall era started and never felt like I wanted to drop the show in that period. This finale has brought me closest to that feeling and sapped my enthusiasm.

I'm interested enough to know what's going on with Billie Piper that I'll probably watch as many episodes as it takes for that to be explained, but beyond that I'm not sure. I guess the Billie Piper stuff will have to really wow me.

I really hope that's true. I would have loved to see Ncuti continue in the role, but like with Jodie Whitaker, it takes some of the sting out to know they got what they wanted from the role and moved on rather than staying on longer than intended or else felt they were being forced out.

I've never understood the original (non-meme) version of this graph. Too much by whose standard? Maybe I wanted them extra buttery or sugary or whatever, make your own fucking cookies if you want them different.

I think of it as, if you got shot halfway through telling me the date of something, "December" on its own is more useful information than "12". Technically, "12" narrows it down to fewer possible dates, but it could be at any time of year, while December only happens once a year, in March or whatever.

Perhaps the most relevant of all: time of day. 9:30. Hours first, then minutes. I'm not from a location that does month-day ordering, but I think largest to smallest works excellently for time measurement, hence ISO 8601.

I got recommended a 24 hour repeating live stream of Dugga Doo from the BBC several times.

or for thinking that other people would buy that bullshit.

Look around. Religions exist. Cults exist. Plenty of people have found great success by starting a religion/cult, whether that means access to power, money, wives, children, etc. If they got what they wanted out of the deal, then I'd be more keen to hone in on greed or selfishness as their most prominent character flaw rather than question their intelligence.

You might want to add Murderbot to this list, since it's currently releasing weekly on Apple TV+. I've been mostly enjoying it so far, at least as far as the story it's telling. My only problem is with the episode length/structure. It's a 22-minute show and I always feel like I'm just getting into it by the time it's over, with the episodes tending to end very abruptly; there's rarely a satisfying conclusion to the story elements introduced in that episode.

I don't normally mind having a week to digest an episode, but with this show it feels like reading a few pages of a book once a week, without the benefit of finishing a chapter. I think the show would be far more enjoyable if watched once all the episodes are available. That said, I find most of the characters likeable and the titular Murderbot's arc is a unique take on the "android develops humanity" trope. Their behavior is already very human at the start, with the major shortfall being their difficulty/discomfort when relating to people, in a way that's very autism-coded.