[-] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 4 days ago

I'm still waiting on an Okana spinoff simply titled Star Trek: Outrageous

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 7 points 5 days ago

Honestly curious... what exactly are you doing in a community who's stated goal is to evangelize the Lemmy network?

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 16 points 1 week ago

Well, this season looks officially ridiculous.

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 16 points 2 weeks ago

The reason behind his weird android haircut is that he thought it looked Caesar-esque.

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 18 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 20 points 3 weeks ago

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).

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 32 points 3 weeks ago

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?

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 21 points 3 weeks ago

This has been true for over a year now, I think the only reason that community points anywhere else is because a majority of them already moved to Lemmy instances.

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 35 points 4 weeks ago

In short, when too many cooks are in charge, it’s hard to make a good meal. Take content moderation, for example.

The take that Fediverse moderation is "not as effective" always makes me smile, because:

  1. The moderator-to-user ratio is several orders of magnitude better on the fediverse because volunteer-run instances have zero incentive to grow beyond their ability to self-moderate. But also-

  2. Do you really expect that paid employees (or even trained AIs) are going to be more effective at recognizing who/what is disrupting a community than existing members with a personal stake in it's quality?

Also, as aside I am very happy they said "Bluesky, if it manages to become truly federated" and not the "promises to be" or "is federated" language we usually see.

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 23 points 4 weeks ago

I am pretty convinced these stats are low because I remember the early years of Reddit feeling much less active than the Threadiverse does now and I have to assume Reddit's MAUs in 2008-9 were at least above 100K.

Regardless, this is nice to see and I recommend everyone check out !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com if they are interested in helping to promote Lemmy instances on Reddit.

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 16 points 1 month ago

Redditors really hate having their routines challenged. The ones who want to leave will leave, and the group of people who stay behind will become increasingly obstinate (and it's probably for the best).

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 31 points 1 month ago

Top highly upvoted comment saying you need different accounts for each instance 🤦🏻

Time to jump into the fray I guess

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