Ive spent hella time watching garbage I wouldve never bought but watched it because it was free, wont get that time back lol, many games ill never play because I pirated them and didnt even try them, but that just made them feel like they could be played whenever, and since the only cost was the time it took to downlaod/install I was never rushing to open them

Pirscy has its negatives, anything ive spent money on ive been compelled to use, piracy ill build up a library of barely touched software, doing myself a disservice not learning/using them, but they feel less imporrtant if they can be gotten free, only really applies to the initial learning phase but most stuff I pirate I dont get past that phase

if 13 year old me watched it I wouldve dropped it and never touched star trek again, why is it so hard to just go 50/50 actual equality in the far hopeful future, the animated show did it a lot better. Strange new worlds was a bit better for me to watcg too, but felt like the opposite issue from discovery.

I semi enjoyed the recent shows, felt like discovery didnt have one competent man tho, giving all the male archetypes/tropes to woman was interesting, just kinda wanted one man to not be incompetent and an idiot for 5 seconds

But its not popular, anthologies are, all of scifi is horror and hopeless, id like a fun hopeful anthology show

and youtube got big hosting everything, they took years to take down hella anime, movies, etc.

and crunchyroll

Its actually a lot if they actively post and comment, or even if they actively upvote, we dont get that many upvotes in general for the top posts, even 100 would be a huge boost

beauty of lemmy is they only banned the community so at least ppl can tell you where to go and how to access it

I was doing that for the first two weeks here and now I dont open it most days

If they have extra money spend some on ads? Prob better to improve seo somehow

They cant ban them all more will always pop up, fediverse Is like hydra

I picked sparrow from vfxmed I think, goat

also grabbed hardlyread.ing and hardlysleep.ing, I love that the fediverse shows the instance name, its just fun

some sort of retry option for the verifcation question might be helpful

First time I made an account I fd up the verification question (didnt even look), took me months to make an account again because I was annoyed I couldnt have that username on that instance because I did It wrong.

leaving reddit led me to some forums that are still active for niche stuff like steakunderwater, lowendtalk, etc. I kind of got used to never leaving that app for anything, didn’t realise how bad the shills were and I just assumed the advice was good like it was a decade ago.

The advice these days is not great, I don’t think most people active there know what they’re talking about and just answer to answer.

its a solid size, on reddit there are so many rules and it feels like screaming into a void when no one comments or views your post lol, it was only good for niche stuff, but lemmys cool because niche stuff hits the front page and everyone commenting tends to be helpful or at least they are not actively trying to be negative/unhelpful.

What also bugged me was some subs would delete your post if it was about like a new game so their mods could post it, everyone was so extra about karma that theyd delete ppls posts to post them themselves lol.

thats how normal social media already is, the algorithim keeps you in a bubble at least here we decide the bubble conciously, algorithims favor controversy and rollercoasters of emotion too

no only those communities, you can still interact with dbzer0 users, just not the piracy communities