I’m not trying to get you to do so. Just noting that it isn’t inherently more “memey” than lemmy.

This makes no sense. How you interpret the design doesn’t come into it. You know piefed.social (the largest instance) shows the same communities as lemmy.world, right? Show me a meme community that apparently only exists as viewed from piefed.social.

You might be seeing it via card mode rather than compact mode.

Do you primarily/only like episodic space opera tv shows?

Without trying to shill it to you, it has the same content you would see on lemmy.world. It’s no more memey than lemmy.world.

It already is. Lemmy.world is not on there.

What are you trying to post?

BUT, that being said, If i could change one thing I will never do the 3 episode of Carol flipfloping. Another example of nothing happen: The hive go away (omg!).

Then Carol like them(omg!)… then guess what? we’re at square one!!!

Is that really all you took from that arc? You took nothing else from it?

the same way the french had some good time. And we should root against the french, but not against carol??

“The French” (Koumba) doesn’t want to end the hive. Carol, for most of the season did. You really don’t see the difference there?

Also, it’s not about "rooting for Carol in terms of her as a person - but her goals in ending the hive. Koumba doesn’t want to do that because he benefits from it. He may be an interesting character, but he isn’t trying to fix it. Carol and Manousos are despite them being somewhat anti-social and sarcastic characters. The whole tagline is “The world’s most miserable woman has to save the world from happiness”.

Bad writing. We got 3 ep more… but the cost, was having the main displaying a lack of willpower. Yeah she’s back! But no: I cant trust her again. She’s a flipflopper

Do you think she just flipped randomly? Nothing prompted that?

I think that’s a rule of storytelling. you can trick the audience, but you can no break their trust. We trusted carol to be a bitch to the hive, and 3 ep broke that trust. So yeah she’s back… but…I dont care that much

It was more like 2 episodes, not 3.

I think this show could be done in one season, if the writer wanted. And be great. But just for money, he made it a 5 season show. If I recall the dude is super well-known for previous work, so I guess they let him do whatever. And he indulged into pointless narration

How do you know that it could’ve been done in one season? You’ve no idea what’s next.

The “dude” is known for Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, so yeah, he comes with a solid reputation.

If you remove his non-compromise scenes: you have less than 1 min of him in the show. The whole point of this character is that. Without it , he do NOT exist.

Sorry, why do you need to somehow remove his prior scenes in the first place?

That trait is something that we dont do/see in everyday life. As a viewer it is admirable. This justify how inefficient, and inutile that dude is. He is a total badass in his stubbornness. This is his ONLY character trait. when it is gone, what is left? A dummy who in 6 episode managed to hear noise at the radio… 6 fricking episode!

It’s not at all. He’s clearly principled. He’s clearly a gifted survivalist.

1- Grenade explode - > panic -> 5 min later nothing change

What did you expect to change from that? Moreover, it showed Carol just how far the hive would to go to make her happy. That set the stage for the final episode reveal of her acquiring the nuclear warhead from them.

2- Carol drug the hive (great, pro actif, original) -> panic -> nothing change

Nothing changed? Her decision to try and drug Zosia caused the hive to abandon her which lasted for the next 2 episodes and culminated in her breaking down and begging for them to come back. It was ultimately them ghosting and abandoning her which led to her surrendering.

Ok the Hive go away : this is a non event…

No, it is not. At all. It tells a little bit more about the hive and greatly impacts Carol personally.

3- Carol learn about eating human (great, pro actif, original) -> panic -> she talk to the french -> nothing change 4

What do you imagine should have changed exactly? How would you have written that exactly? She learned why they do it. We learned from that discovery that the most of hive are all going to starve within a decade due to their rigid “do not kill” ideology. This is not nothing. It adds a sense of urgency from Carol’s perspective to solve it quicker, and the other survivors perspective to work with them to come up with alternatives. We also learned quite a bit about Koumba during her interactions with him - there’s some depth to him despite his hedonism.

nobody do nothing of interest for 2 episode (carol play golf, the spanish dude stupidly go on a suicide journey)

You literally just said that you admired Manousos stubbornness from a writing perspective. Now you’re against it?

nothing change 5- Carol get in relation with the Hive -> no panic -> nothing change

What do you imagine should have changed exactly? How would you have written that exactly? That she got into a relationship with Zosia was symbolising her effective surrender and acceptance. Until Manousos arrived and she discovered they were still working on a way to convert her.

I mean the intent here is for moderating capacity and tools to increase with user increases. Reddit grew but grew before its own moderator capacity allowed for it. Now I would argue its overall activity levels are inflated by AI, trolls and spammers. I’m on Piefed and in terms of the discussion about growth, I think about new instance admin tools can mitigate and prevent bad behaviour, trolling, AI and spamming from (usually) new accounts that otherwise would cement themselves on as regular spammers and trolls.

It’s one thing to grow, but you need to grow the ability to deal with the problems that can derive from that.

Yes.

Do we want Reddit amounts of users? No.

But there’s a lot of growth between here and there.

One obvious feature of “Hi I’m AI” usually is that one artist with no actual profile or link or footprint outside of Bandcamp that has apparently released 10 albums in a year.

Some just aren’t subtle. They can at least start there.

But his “personality” was not being against the Hive (that’s Carol trait). His personality was shown to be a stubborn (flawed character= great) asshole (even with carol). And suddenly he become the Hive experimentation dude, talking with them. Why didnt he do it earlier? Yes… because he was stupid!! (We knew from the beginning he was, by comparing to carol).

He is absolutely against the hive at its core, and is opposed way more than Carol - and he can’t be manipulated or bought regarding it - unlike Carol. He spoke to them because Carol suggested he do so.

The show make a root for a stupid asshole dude. Which now has lost his only redeeming quality (his no compromise stance to the point of dying)

Why is a “no compromise” stance to the point of being unable to do anything or learn anything an inherently redeeming quality? This logic simply makes no sense.

Like it make us root for an asshole Carol (flawed character= great) because she was against the hive. And when she flip, we realize we just rooted for an asshole with now lost her redeeming quality. BAD writing.

She flipped, then flipped back.

I fail to see how Carol being manipulated by the hive is inherently bad writing.

But that not even the worst part of the show… there are still some fun in those character. But the show is just boring: 1 event by episode, which is totally canceled at the beginning of the next one.

What event was “canceled” by the beginning of the next one?

Too small to be corrupted?

I just used Root as an example here. There isn’t a federated alternative of any note unfortunately.

Well, better late than never. Piefed can’t retrospectively solve the limitations that Lemmy had.

People living in Russia or China might care.

I mean, okay, but they likely use VPNs to start with. There’s already heavily oppressive laws there. The point is Russia and China have no power to threaten Fediverse owners here.

UK might be much more difficult, btw. They now ban all porn without identity checks. So if you host a lemmy/piefed instance that’s accessible in the UK you will need to delete all adult content that makes it to your instance, if you don’t want to violate UK law.

I am from the UK. And lemmy.zip has geoblocked the UK because of this (the owner is from the UK). But no other instances has done anything so far.

Cloning communities isn’t quite that easy. Were you present when feddit.de went down? Their communities didn’t vanish. The replications are still up on all other instances, and you can still post there. There’s no indication to a casual user that the instance hosting the communities is down and thus federation doesn’t work. To the users it just looks like participation dropped like a rock with no obvious reason.

Keep in mind that Piefed actually has community migration now. There are moves being made here.

Piefed has a community migration tool.

If you move to piefed.zip, you have more control over your feed via keyword filters.

There’s also slow growth vs. extreme growth. I do want Lemmy/Piefed to grow but I don’t think its ideal or realistic to expect or project it ever getting to Reddit size.

I think he is filtering by active which keeps posts still receiving lots of comments very high.

Are you filtering by “active”?