Riker_Maneuver
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Riker_Maneuver@startrek.websiteto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•When you vet someone for whether you can be close friends with them, what's a seemingly unimpactful characteristic about someone that would instantly rule them out as a potential close friend for you?English73·2 years agoFor real this seems like a major red flag.
Riker_Maneuver@startrek.websiteto RetroGaming@lemmy.world•Nightdive's Quake 2: Enhanced, out nowEnglish1·2 years agoAwesome, the episode they added to the original Quake was fantastic so this should deliver as well. Also, I never played the N64 game either. Nightdive is too good for this world.
Riker_Maneuver@startrek.websiteOPto Movies and TV Shows@lemmy.film•'King Of The Hill' Dale Voice Actor Johnny Hardwick Dead At 64English432·2 years agoFor real. I imagine they’ll be finding someone new, but no one will ever truly be able replace him.
Riker_Maneuver@startrek.websiteto Technology@beehaw.org•YouTube will now show a blank homepage if you don’t have watch history onEnglish11·2 years agoCool, now make the search useful again by letting me do -thingIdon’twant or “thing I do want” in quotes. Why did that functionality even go away? Search is such garbage now that tries to get you to click on shit you didn’t search for.
Riker_Maneuver@startrek.websiteto Technology@beehaw.org•YouTube will now show a blank homepage if you don’t have watch history onEnglish34·2 years agoI love the content/creators, but hate the company that runs it. Sadly, unless you are willing to give up the channels you love there isn’t much in the way of alternatives.
Riker_Maneuver@startrek.websiteto Fediverse@lemmy.world•A little history on Reddit. From the politics subreddit with just 85,678 users in 2008 to 500 million active users today. Lemmy/Kbin will follow the same path.English121·2 years agoLet’s not think about the Reddit of today, let’s think about Reddit of old. Rome wasn’t built in a day.
I can agree with this to a degree, but can’t we just not think of reddit? I mean, back then, I don’t recall redditors obsessing over other sites as much as I have seen on lemmy. Digg was the top dog, and I don’t recall daily threads about reddit’s numbers or how it wasn’t matching up.
It was just it’s own thing and not constantly comparing itself to it’s alleged competition. I feel like that helped it grow into it’s own thing, and we should give lemmy a chance to do the same instead of trying to turn it into reddit 2.0. That said, I might just be forgetting—there could’ve been constant ‘sky-is-falling-because-we-aren’t-Digg’ posts—but I just don’t recall them.
Riker_Maneuver@startrek.websiteto Fediverse@lemmy.world•Lemmy is slowly getting betterEnglish52·2 years agoI was on reddit before the digg exodus, and the current state of lemmy feels somewhat reminiscent of those times. When communities are smaller there is just a completely different feel than the 1 million+ subscriber goliaths some subreddits became.
Riker_Maneuver@startrek.websiteto Privacy Guides@lemmy.one•Brave releases its own privacy-preserving image and video searchEnglish6·2 years agoWhat is the reason for removing search functionality? Is it really just to make it harder to find what people want and potentially be served more ads? Hopefully site:whateverbutprobablyreddit.com never goes on the chopping block.
Riker_Maneuver@startrek.websiteto Movies and TV Shows@lemmy.film•‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’ makes its debut on Disney+English51·2 years agoIt felt very much in the vein and quality of the previous Guardians films to me, so I figured, if people loved those, they would also love this. Personally, I thought it was probably one of the better non-Spider-Man marvel offerings we have gotten in a while. The last phase had a lot of underwhelming releases.
Riker_Maneuver@startrek.websiteto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Bot posting in new communities seem to discourage human engagement.English3·2 years agoFrom where I sit, this instance of Lemmy is too small to worry about bots denying the users. 😉
Is it? I myself have gone to post something I found interesting, and saw a bot beat me to the punch. I feel it hurts the smaller communities even more. You end up with those bot post graveyards. Though, I get this a complete non-issue to some; It’s why I suggested letting the communities and moderators themselves decide. I see no harm in that.
My personal preferences make me more likely to comment and contribute to content posted by other humans. I get lemmy is small right now, but I don’t see why communities should wait to address these bots when they are already clearly a divisive subject.
Riker_Maneuver@startrek.websiteto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Bot posting in new communities seem to discourage human engagement.English3·2 years agoThe problem is that this seems like a band-aid fix to me. I mentioned this in another thread, but I feel like the bot posts deny the human chance to post and engage with the same content. When a human is the one to create the post they often have both knowledge and passion for the subject and will continue to engage in the comments. Bots do not.
I think ultimately this is something that should be handled by community mods. Ask for feedback from their communities, and if it’s what the people want disallow the bot posts.
Riker_Maneuver@startrek.websiteto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What movies, books or tv shows are meant to spoof/parody a particular genre while actually being a great example of the genre?English1·2 years agoIt’s legitimately one of the best Star Trek movies.
Riker_Maneuver@startrek.websiteto Technology@lemmy.world•If the cream of the crop is original content, bots are uselessEnglish1·2 years agoThat’s a good point. If I didn’t see that they were bot accounts it would probably be an ignorance-is-bliss situation. I just wouldn’t notice. Though, using desktop, it’s fairly obvious since most have the “b” next to their names that also include “bot”.
A lot of the time, you’ll see OP engage in the comments of what they post because they themselves have a personal interest in it. You don’t get that with bots. I have to wonder if bots are denying humans that chance. Someone goes to post something they found, but the reddit repost bot already pulled it from some subreddit’s new feed.
Riker_Maneuver@startrek.websiteto Technology@lemmy.world•If the cream of the crop is original content, bots are uselessEnglish7·2 years agoI can understand this take; I realize it probably boils down to personal preference, but seeing the mod bot with 2 of the top posts of the last 6 hours just feels like a bad look for a community to me. It’s stated purpose:
I’m a bot designed to increase content created on Lemmy, to try and jump-start communities, and make Lemmy overall a more enjoyable place
This is a relatively active community, and I don’t think it really needs to be “jump started” anymore. Let humans post the content. That’s what I want to see and engage with. I still think there is a place for bot posts, but with a much more limited scope (episode discussion threads, sports scores as was mentioned elsewhere, etc.). Nothing turns me off a community faster than seeing half the top post from a bot.
Riker_Maneuver@startrek.websiteOPto Movies and TV Shows@lemmy.film•The Righteous Gemstones’ Renewed for Season 4 at HBOEnglish3·2 years agoDanny McBride sure likes to put dicks in his show—both figurative and literal.
Riker_Maneuver@startrek.websiteto Movies and TV Shows@lemmy.film•Castlevania: Nocturne - Official Teaser Trailer (2023) | Edward Bluemel, Thuso MbeduEnglish5·2 years agoI understand why Warren Ellis was ousted, but—having read plenty of his comics back in the past—so much of what made Castlevania great was clearly his own style he brought to it. The personalities that he infused the characters with was a huge part of my personal enjoyment. I wish people would stop ruining things just because they were horny, and can’t behave appropriately.
The new writer/showrunner doesn’t have much to his name for something like this, but i’m totally willing to give it a shot.
Riker_Maneuver@startrek.websiteto Fediverse@lemmy.world•Quick question - is there a way to format a link to a lemmy post so it opens through your home instance if you click it?English9·2 years agoI have just been using this script. Simple and works great. Also, it let’s you setup multiple home instances so if you have a back up account elsewhere to deal with downtime or an account for other things 👀 it’s fantastic.
Riker_Maneuver@startrek.websiteto Movies and TV Shows@lemmy.film•‘Futurama’ Review: New Episodes on Hulu Are Fun Fan Service, but Not Much More (And That’s OK)1·2 years agoThis was pretty much my take too. I went in wanting to love it, but it ultimately fell flat for me—even if I didn’t exactly hate it. I re-watched the first four seasons back when it was announced this was coming. So, maybe I did this to myself by setting the bar way too high. I’m still going to give it a chance, hoping the overreliance on meta humor was a one-off, but I’ll be tempering my expectations going forward.
Yeah, I was about to say, 99% of people are either unaware or do not care. Don’t mistake Lemmy’s privacy opinions as representative of the general population.