What’s going on? Why does this offtopic comment have 14 upvotes and no upvotes?

EDIT: Dead internet theory here in full force. This post is about Lemmy. The only thing that has to do with Substack is the example post that OP highlighted to demonstrate issues with Lemmy federation. And yet the top comment (and replies to my comment) is going on as if this post is about Substack, almost as if it was written by a technology that cannot understand context.

lil guy is doing his best 😂

k sry

It’s pretty great lol

If they had gone with my plan of 24 seasons of 24 episodes each then there would have been plenty of room for both!

It’s an objectively better plan I don’t understand why they didn’t listen to me

That alt text is just TOO real

Ohhh I totally misread your comment. Whew!

It will be attacked

If it’s not then it’s not living up to the Star Trek name IMO!

Dang the musical episode was a major highlight for me 🤷‍♂️

I am glad I had the advanced wisdom and intellect to recognize and correct for the error.

The LinkedIn-styled writing here is hard for me to get through, but I think the general gist is that for profit platforms are easier to onboard which I agree with. This line stands out:

And what do we get in return? A worse experience than cloud-based services.

I have to disagree somewhat, it’s a different experience that is absolutely more difficult in many ways, but for those of us who value privacy, control over our data, and don’t like ads, the trade-off is worth it. Also it goes without saying that the usability of selfhosted apps has exploded in the past few years and it will likely become less and less of an issue.

Fortunately “groupthink” on the fediverse isn’t a structural problem since nobody controls all instances and every instance has different moderation styles.

Oh man I love this haha thanks for sharing. You should get a pixelfed account!

I also noticed that when Lemmy links do appear it’s often to a random federated instance, not the original source.

eSIMs definitely make it harder…

Still, I get closer and closer every day to taking the plunge. My smartphone is pretty stripped down without any social media or games, etc. But it is still more distracting than I would prefer.

Thanks for sharing this, I really like seeing the methods of how some people are coping with today’s distraction hellscape.

Been really interested in this and/or the Light Phone! I’m curious if your plan is to use it as a full-time daily driver? Or an occasional “I want to disconnect right now” thing?

I really wish carriers made it easy to swap where your phone number is pointed because I would love one of these for weekend/evening use. But I’m pretty intimidated to switch full time.

Would also love to see a follow up in a few months to see if you found it sustainable.

TNG is the gateway drug

There is some back story needed with that one… but maybe it’s tangential enough to make the viewer want to know more?

Devil’s Due

If this was the only episode of Star Trek I’d ever seen I’d have no interest in continuing 😅

I actually think “Inner Light” is a good option for OP because is a “side quest” that doesn’t require much backstory, while still being thematically aligned with what to expect with TNG.

Eh, I would have agreed a few years ago. But now default Ubuntu boots up basically looking like MacOS with the browser (firefox by default, not Chrome) right there in your face ready to launch. For someone truly not aware how to use a computer beyond a browser it couldn’t be much easier (except booting directly into the browser). The only thing preventing that from catching on is that those people don’t even know what an operating system is, let alone that it could be changed.