Wolpertinger

I'm in a similar boat. I used slashdot occasionally (still do), but once I heard Kevin Rose was involved with digg, I started using the site heavily. I only stopped when digg v4 dropped.

I'll have to see what he's up to these days.

I gave up reading the first book in the series until he's able to finish it.

Having tried /r/politics, /r/eve, and /r/valheim, I was going to point out how I didn't get the screen you got. However, /r/nyt gets this message. As an aside, /r/politics, /r/eve, and /r/valheim are verified while /r/nyt is not is interesting to me. Upon further testing, /r/nytimes works. Seeing how /r/nyt has 411 subscribers, while /r/nytimes has 8,431 subscribers, I think smaller, less well known subreddits will run into issues while larger subreddits or subreddits that are more well known will have no accessibility issues.

It's also interesting that this block doesn't exist if you navigate to old.reddit.com/r/nyt instead of just reddit.com/r/nyt. You think they would have just repurposed the page that asked if you if you were over 18 before going to a nsfw subreddit for this task, but old.reddit.com seems completely overlooked as of now.

old.reddit.com on the Firefox Android app looks bad, but I wonder if someone could make an extension to automatically redirect users to old.reddit.com when navigating to reddit.com, as well as an extension that changes the layout of the page to something more mobile friendly, similar to RES but for your phone's browser. That might make reddit usable on mobile without the official app until old.reddit.com goes away or they try to implement some sort of user agent string check.

I wear one indoors or at the drive thru. I'm considering dropping the mask, but the last time I researched it, the recommendation was doing what I was already doing.

Lemmy isn't THE reddit alternative for me. In fact, I don't think there can be a single reddit alternative that can fill reddit's shoes. This whole debacle was a reminder to diversify and try out different platforms.

Coming to reddit from digg, I found that I still visited slashdot after the move. Reddit's had previous issues that has prompted people to try to migrate to other sites over the years. I joined Tildes a few years back, and before that, I was on Voat until it became clear that it was a cesspool. I also lurk occasionally on Raddle.

This migration attempt, I picked up Lemmy, and I might try a couple of other sites like Squabble. I gave up using reddit on my phone, but I still use old.reddit.com when I'm on a computer. And I still lurk on slashdot after all these years.

Having used the web before any of these sites existed, I've found that what's past is prologue. There is no one size fits all, but rather a plethora of sites that host various communities.

This crap is why I've taken to just telling people to treat the various instances as if federation isn't a thing. This adds needless complexity at a time when general, non-tech savvy users are looking at alternatives.

It may overload servers, but the various lemmy/kbin instances are, for the most part, acting independently of each other anyway.

I wonder if it's better for a number of lemmy/kbin administrators get together and work towards providing a good user experience for incoming/new users, promote the instances that are working together on each other's sites, etc. If one instance is having load issues, it would be nice for sign-ups to be disabled and users redirected to another instance whose admins they're working with. Maybe this is already being discussed behind the scenes.

I feel like how common defederation is will hurt the entire project in time.

I thought I had a good bead on it.

Am I missing something?

In universe, I don't know how useful saucer separation really was. Then again, I don't really know how useful a floating city really was, either. It really showcased the hubris of the galaxy class design and the naivete of Starfleet at that point in time.

At the beginning of TNG, the Federation seemed very idyllic. That started to change with the introduction to the Borg, and was completely shattered with the Dominion War (remember the Jem'Hadar kamikaze pilots against a galaxy class, for example). At the end of the TNG era, you don't really see many galaxy class ships flying around, but more ships that are more battle ready.

To your direct point about saucer separation, separating half the ship to leave vulnerable seemed like a bad idea. The saucer section (which had most of the population) didn't really have a warp drive but it did have phasers. Still, it was susceptible to hit and run tactics while the lower portion was away.

Additionally, the saucer had most of the phaser array - that could be handy in a fight! Why leave that behind?

Lastly, you mentioned Generations. The saucer section couldn't leave the lower section fast enough and was caught in the blast radius. The end result was the same as if traditional life boats were used - the destruction of the entire ship. In general, the separation procedure was slow. It made more sense to just take the saucer with you instead of wasting precious minutes in a separation procedure that could introduce the possibility of damage to the vessel before/after the time critical mission.

I'm not sure how useful saucer separation really was. Starfleet didn't seem to think it was useful, either, as no other ship had that feature moving forward, and the one ship that was shown on screen to have it rarely used it.

Reddit used to be open source. They closed the source years ago.

Thanks for letting us know! I've been unsubbing from every sub whose mod team leaves posts like that.

They're not. It's a stand alone link aggregator.

That's so screwed up. He's coming off as having as frail of an ego as Elon Musk...