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Whenever barrier to entry is discussed for lemmy, and reducing confusion for different servers is brought up, all of the isolationist comments come out of the woodwork.

Apparently redditors who are too dumb to register should stay on reddit?

We have a platform that seems to be working and slowly growing. Shouldnt we want good defaults in place to give the best possible experience with minimal user effort?

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[–] theywilleatthestars 72 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I support it because I want more people to talk about shows with

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Okay so how is there no nerdy subs for stuff like this?

There isn’t that few of us, I think we just keep getting drowned in politics.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

Unfortunately, nerdy =/= tech literate, and it's mainly tech literate people here at the moment. While there's likely a higher concentration of nerds here, many fringe interests still haven't hit critical mass

[–] theywilleatthestars 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's a Doctor Who community, but it's not very active

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

Yeah… the only thing that gives me hope is the Simpsons shit posting sub, it’s just a little less active than the Reddit equivalent. I guess being a Simpson fan made you more likely to migrate.

[–] SamboT 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I havent really kept tabs on how the "everything" feed works. Does it show posts from small communities here and there? Or is it the most upvoted stuff over the instance?

Some engagement algorithms to showcase popular posts from smaller communities seems like a good way to get people to branch from politics abd linux a little bit.

Edit: scaled view is really what im describing and already exists

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

I havent really kept tabs on how the “everything” feed works. Does it show posts from small communities here and there?

If you want to see posts from small communities (balanced with the larger ones) then select "Scaled" instead of "Hot" or "Active".

If you're sick of politics and tech then subscribe to communities you like and sort by "Subscribed" instead of "Local" or "All". Look here for relevant communities:

click here for a list of non-news/politics, non-tech, and non-meme communities.

These are currently active (except for the ones with a * which were less active last I checked)

GENERAL DISCUSSION / QUESTIONS

ART / PHOTOS

ANIMALS

COMICS / GRAPHIC NOVELS

ENTERTAINMENT

GENRES / STYLES

HISTORY

INFORMATION / KNOWLEDGE

OTHER

FEDIVERSE

FINDING NEW/GOOD COMMUNITIES ON LEMMY

click here for a list of meme communities

MEMES, SOCIAL MEDIA REPOSTS, AND HUMOR (NON-POLITICAL)

Most of these are currently active. (except for the ones with a * which were less active last I checked). Sometimes politics sneaks in but that's not the focus.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

So I sort either by hot or active, and view either home or all.

Home + hot is the least noisy and I use it for my feed good time, although lots of politics still comes through.

All + active shows you the most controversial stuff, pretty much your regular political dramas.

All + hot leads to random posts from communities that are obscure, can be very fun sometimes.

Honestly, imo the biggest problem is the state of the world, not the technology

[–] ElectroVagrant 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Feel this as I semi-void post about some of the shows I've watched in [email protected]. Trying to let people know there's someone else around here watching Japanese and Korean shows.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

Thank you for posting it!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (6 children)
[–] theywilleatthestars 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Watching Doctor Who in chronological order

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Chronological based on episode airing date, or date depicted in that episode?

[–] theywilleatthestars 12 points 1 day ago

Date in the episode, baby

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Now I kinda want to watch it by date depicted... Do you know of a list somewhere for that?

[–] MyNameIsAtticus 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Watching Doctor Who is such a treat. Where are you at? The 12th is one of my favorite runs

[–] theywilleatthestars 2 points 1 day ago

Just got to the TV movie.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Holy crap isn't there a A LOT of Doctor Who?

[–] theywilleatthestars 3 points 1 day ago

It's taken several months and also I skipped most of the Third Doctor era because that would just be watching the show normally

[–] SamboT 10 points 1 day ago
[–] Zonetrooper 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It isn't very long, but I just wrapped up Mobile Suit Gundam: Requiem For Vengeance.

It's kind of obvious that it was a rather low-budget show, which is a pity because the story concept is something I've wanted for ages, but now won't be repeated because it was done and didn't fare well.

Bookwise, I'm chewing my way through The Dresden Files.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Interesting that you mentioned Gundam, I started with the original series and then sort of switched over to Macross and finished the original season of that. Neither one really struck a cord with me.. I'm more of a Space Battleship Yamoto 2199 person I guess

[–] Zonetrooper 2 points 9 hours ago

I admit unfamiliarity with SBY2199 beyond seeing some clips and understanding the basic concept.

That said, from what I do know, it's more of a... dramatic-flare show, whereas Gundam (especially the Universal Century) tends to be a bit grittier, grim, and grounded about war? You might enjoy Mobile Suit Gundam 00, which (from my perspective) is I think a little more "Yamato-like".

[–] TheMinions 2 points 1 day ago

I started watching House again randomly.

[–] ripcord 2 points 1 day ago

Only Murders. Not binging, but we're watching through it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Silo on Apple TV is really good

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Severance as well. Very very good IMO. The books silo was based on are great as well. First one is called wool I believe.