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Have you ever considered that the Prime Directive is not only not ethical, but also illogical, and perhaps morally indefensible?

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I’m just curious…is there any interest in discussing DW episodes in a startrek.website community?

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Oh boy, I cannot get behind that Capaldi slander.

The Chibnall/Whittaker era…I don’t think they’re are many people who would say it’s their favourite, but there were at least a few pretty good installments in there.

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At the same time, “Demons of the Punjab” is probably a top 10 episode for me, I really love it.

“It Takes You Away” is delightfully weird, the New Years specials are generally pretty solid, “Fugitive of the Judoon” is pretty good even though the greater arc-stuff is not, and I have good memories of “The Haunting of Villa Diodati” and “Can You Hear Me?” even though I haven’t revisited them since the first run.

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I spot-checked a couple of them on Mastodon, and I can call up their profiles without an issue.

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siiiiiiiiiiiiigh

But yeah, federation between Mastodon and Lemmy is pretty unidirectional. Users on (most) Mastodon instances can use their accounts to post to Lemmy and follow Lemmy users, but it doesn’t really work in the other direction.

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At one point, I recall being able to at least search for a Mastodon user from Lemmy and have them come up in search results (no posts and couldn’t follow).

Hmm, I think that still works provided the Mastodon user has interacted with Lemmy in some way. It will pull up their bio and posts/comments made on Lemmy, but that’s it.

I think the difficulty lies in the way the two platforms treat user accounts. On Mastodon, it’s pretty straightforward - a user is a user.

On Lemmy, the users are users, and the community federates to Mastodon as a “group” that boosts/retweets every single post and comment that users make to that community. It’s not really ideal, but I’m not sure if it can be improved considering the radically different structure of each platform. This is what the Quark’s feed looks like on Mastodon:

!A screenshot of @quarks as seen on Mastodon, showing the various users being “boosted”.

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Since Lemmyvision is a homo sapiens only club, startrek.website will not be able to participate directly, and Spock’s rendition of “I’m the X” is sadly ineligible.

But this is pretty cool!

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We’ve had 2FA disabled, because it wasn’t working properly at one point. This is a good prompt to look into getting it up and running again, so thanks for bringing it to our attention!

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2FA should be working now!

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Paramount’s CFO Is Focused on “Getting the Most Out of Every Single Dollar We Invest in Content”

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/paramounts-cfo-content-investment-deals-streaming-1235844185/

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This is also the advantage of public broadcasting - they can put more emphasis on that sort of thing without worrying about profit.

All of which is to say, support your public broadcasters, people!

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Quitting a platform is always easier than you think it will be.

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I suppose it could make sense if they’re looking to break up the company and keep the streamer.

It does seem like bundling might be the new strategy for the non-Netflix, non-Disney players.

Marvel Studios 'Fantastic Four' poster unveiled, main cast revealed. (startrek.website)

Thought there may be some overlap between the F4 and Trek fandoms. I’m over the MCU overall, but as a life long F4 fan I might check this out if I hear its decent. Poster looks promising, dig the retro vibes and the team being presented as a family. Pascal seems like an odd pick for Reed Richards, but the rest of the main cast...

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This seems fine, I guess. Pascal is the only one that I recongize by name, but that means nothing.

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It was interesting, even at the time, it seemed like everyone was talking about Krasinski as a cameo, and not necessarily a long-term plan. It’s been a weird era for Marvel.

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No details about the format yet, as near as I can tell.

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Hmm yeah it looks like they deleted it for some reason. I’ll try to keep an eye out for whether it gets reposted.

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It’s an interesting idea, but I wonder if the “Twitter-like” design of Mastodon is more appealing to brands than the “Reddit-like” design of Lemmy.

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Interesting, isn’t it? I saw a number of people making that same observation during one of the migration waves.

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This guy really seems to be intent on buying the parts of Paramount everyone else considers dead weight.

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I don’t know, it sounds like it might be better off in someone else’s hands…depending on the someone.

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We also have a Mastodon PSA up - unfortunately, with the post being difficult to access, there’s not too much else we can do - I ran into the same issue, myself.

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It looks like they may have done some frenzied patching after this went viral.

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Yeah…I generally use verbatim headlines as post titles, but maybe I’ll add some quotation marks in this case.

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Seems to me that assuming it’s a flawed survey for no real reason is a confirmation of biases in and of itself…

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