Kirk
@Kirk@startrek.website
- Comment on Neville Page Says ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1 Klingons Were “A Salty Broth” 1 day ago:
This is my not-safe-for-Reddit opinion but I thought the S1 Klingons were great, interesting and impressive.
- Comment on Disappointed in Plebbit : I Really Believed in the Vision, But It Was All Just Talk 2 days ago:
Turns out good web design skills does not always translate into other skills.
- Comment on Usernames using randomized nonsense 3 days ago:
If an instance has a lot of spam, admins tend to notice and block it. In the future it’s likely admins will have more tools too, but for now the system works pretty well.
- Comment on One fine day at the bookstore 4 days ago:
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 1 week ago:
That is correct and echoes what I said
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 1 week ago:
This only applies if you AND the server owner don’t have a pass: …plex.tv/…/requirements-for-remote-playback-of-pe…
- Comment on Chances for the fediverse? Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves 1 week ago:
I agree with your overall sentiment but also literally 100% of BlueSky users are on one instance.
- Comment on Chances for the fediverse? Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves 2 weeks ago:
BlueSky is not federated. Also German users have outsized representation on Mastodon but most of the network is outside Germany.
- Comment on Deep Space Nine season 2 appreciation post 2 weeks ago:
I love the moments when it’s demonstrated that Ferengi can be actually very astute when it comes to diplomacy/interplanetary relations… their culture just has a completely different set of values.
- Comment on Deep Space Nine season 2 appreciation post 2 weeks ago:
Yeah it’s certainly not the worst series of episodes and as you implied it does some good world building. It just doesn’t do it for me the same way that “why is everyone treating O’Brien like he’s shady?” does.
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- Comment on I cooked some food cubes. 2 weeks ago:
Those look like a forbidden snack! I also didn’t know about that book thanks for sharing.
- Comment on What is Docker? 2 weeks ago:
People are talking about privacy but the big reason is that it gives you, the owner, control over everything quickly without ads or other uneeded stuff. We are so used to apps being optomized for revenue and not being interoperable with other services that it’s easy to forget the single biggest advantage of computers which is that programs and apps can work together quickly and quietly and in the background. Companies provide products, self-hosting provides tools.
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 2 weeks ago:
With Mastodon you can migrate your account, Lemmy can’t migrate (yet). But the difference between Fediverse and commercial platforms is that you can access the same network of content from different instances. With Twitter/Reddit etc. everyone is forced onto a single instance (and a single moderation policy).
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 2 weeks ago:
Lemmy.world is the second largest Lemmy instance, and less than a third of all users. If someone doesn’t like their rules it is trivial for a person to move to an instance who’s ruleset better aligns with their wishes.
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 2 weeks ago:
It’s entirely possible in the future, since ActivityPub accounts can be “forwarded”. It’s a little clunky but look at Mastodon.
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 2 weeks ago:
The fact that this is being upvoted so much I think demonstrates a big misunderstanding of how the fediverse works.
Nobody owns Lemmy and if a instance does something shitty it costs hardly anything to change instances. Nobody owns the lemmy software, and other softwares like mbin/piefed exist too with the same content.
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 2 weeks ago:
There is only one Twitter whereas anyone can start “a Lemmy”.
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 2 weeks ago:
It would be weird if a Lemmy instance tried to make itself addictive. Like congrats your users request way more content and it costs 10x more to operate now yay
- Comment on P+ SpongeBob crossover ad 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on P+ SpongeBob crossover ad 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Was Denied 2-Hour Finale Movie, Says Sonequa Martin-Green 3 weeks ago:
It’s also against the #1 rule of this community
- Comment on The Social Network That Can't Sell Out: Understanding Mastodon vs. Bluesky 3 weeks ago:
Yes absolutely, and that’s why I don’t think commercial
socialmedia will die. But I do think it will come to more be associated with activities gambling or vaping. - Comment on ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Was Denied 2-Hour Finale Movie, Says Sonequa Martin-Green 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on The Social Network That Can't Sell Out: Understanding Mastodon vs. Bluesky 3 weeks ago:
There will always be two types of users: people looking to connect and people looking to be entertained. Fedi is better at the former and commercial better at the latter.
- Comment on I want to see Vulcan fail 4 weeks ago:
Sarek felt that he could have demonstrated more affection towards his human wife in a way that was meaningful to her. That is not the same thing as saying that Vulcan culture is unaffectionate.
- Comment on I want to see Vulcan fail 4 weeks ago:
OP is referring to Vulcan culture. Sarek’s displays of affection would probably not be considered “restrained” in a Vulcan-Vulcan relationship.
- Comment on I want to see Vulcan fail 4 weeks ago:
I don’t know if it’s correct to say that Vulcan culture is unaffectionate, just affectionate in the way you prefer. Remember: Spock was played the way he was in the 1960s to demonstrate the distance humans are willing to go to tolerate other cultures, no matter how (literally in this case) alien.
There’s definitely a lot to unpack in suggesting that their culture deserves to “fail” because they do not assimilate (lol) into your culture.
- Comment on "Art Is Not A Democracy" Nicholas Meyer On Star Trek Movies And Discovery 5 weeks ago:
I love the TOS Mudd episodes (and Roger Carmel’s performance) but I have to agree with everything you said.
