James R Kirk @ Kirk @startrek.website

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Two reasons:

1. There are many steps between "I never wish to see any unmoderated content ever again" and "I wish to see unmoderated content in my feed every day". I don't want to block Lemmy.world communities but I also will go insane if I read those comments every day.
2. I can't know what those communities are in advance of their being inserted. I don't want the default option for content in my main feed to be "opt out".

This may be an unpopular opinion, but I kind of hate this? I think most communities are lazily moderated and I don't want to have every goon's unmoderated takes on whatever the topic is forced in front of my eyeballs.

Wouldn't surprise me if he's trying to bait the court into a "Measure of a Man" debate since all these people do is try to bait others into pointless exhausting performative "debates".

Well said and I'm glad to see this perspective expressed. "Entertainment" is the spice we give art to well, spice it up. But without the art part, pure entertainment is to our minds like eating a bowl of candy is to our bodies.

Oh yeah I should have mentioned that the whole interview is great

Good catch!

Someone said elsewhere that that whole plot is EXTREMELY in the vibe of TOS and it made me appreciate it a lot more.

Totally I loved seasons 4 and 5 the most

LOL and we are better for it

So true for all FOSS projects, the more successful they become the more new users expect a customer service dept.

Because it is a post to an entirely different social media site.

Yeah I have to imagine much of it is bots/artificial views already, this line from the article stood out:

That means this short reel has been viewed more times than every single article 404 Media has ever published, combined and multiplied tens of times.

It doesn't shock me a single reel has significantly more views than all of 404 media, but "multiplied tens of times"? A recent comment me chuckle:

"Investor fraud is basically the entire business model of well basically everything anymore."

(implying the ad views are faked to increase the stock price).

I think it's interesting how "maximizing for engagement" inevitably leads to slop taking over everything. I wonder if real people (with real money) will continue to engage with the slop? Some people surely, but enough to sustain these mega-corps?

Fedora is a solid choice. I recommend Kinoite because it's familiar to Windows users and impossible to break.

startrek.website hosts two other UIs that might help you until the fix is made.

https://old.startrek.website/ - Old reddit style

https://vger.startrek.website/ - A mobile web UI

Because you can't control human beings? I'm not entirely sure what you mean. The entire reason the structure of ActivityPub and the Fediverse is what it is, is to have moderation not controlled by a single entity. Enforced consolidation is both impossible and would defeat the purpose.

Lemmy "communities" are structurally just modified user accounts. So it seems like it could be possible for one to "re-toot" a post similarly to how it can be done on Mastodon and elsewhere.

Good Lord, didn't anybody here build ships in bottles when they were boys?

S-tier effort meme.