Seems about the same?

Agreed, most of the characters in the book are so flat, and only do things because the plot needed them to do that thing.

The Netflix series managed to make the character’s motivations seem more believable which I appreciated.

I just wish Signal had better history and backup features.

Well, to quote a classic film:

“Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.”

New Coke was the 80s, not 70s — they actually briefly brought it back as part of a Stranger Things tie-in. Super interesting to actually taste it.

I miss AskScienceFiction; it was always fun reading those in-universe answers.

There’s one here on LemmyWorld, but it’s pretty dead: !AskScienceFiction@lemmy.world

IIRC, my dad bought progressives from Zenni and said they were as good as the ones he got from an optician.

I think so, I believe you can open them in Books via the Files app on iOS.

Depends on the platform.

If you’re on an Apple device at least, the built-in Books app works great for reading ePub files.

The problem typically isn’t that the community doesn’t exist – the problem is that it does exist but is empty or mostly empty.

In short, open source APIs for everything.

1. Open up Facebook Messenger to Matrix, allowing interoperability with all Matrix clients
2. Open up Facebook/Instagram to ActivityPub, allowing for third party clients
3. Remove account gates for public Facebook/Instagram pages
4. RSS feeds for public Facebook/Instagram pages

That’s also my favorite name

I definitely recommend Dracula — not only is it good, but it’s also the prototype for basically every subsequent vampire book/movie:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/345

When there’s a subreddit about something you’re interested in, but it’s run by mods who enforce a extensive collection of esoteric posting rules.

We’re sorry, but you’ve posted about Topic C on a Wednesday, which is strictly prohibited. Discussion of Topic C is only allowed in the megathread which is only open for comments on the first Saturday of odd numbered months. Didn’t you read our rules?

Completely agree on all points.

An additional one I’d argue is a huge part of HN’s success is their employment of a full-time moderator, dang, who does a great job.

I still haven’t quite forgiven Google for abandoning owners of the Nexus 5X the second the Pixel came out…

I’ll post a positive option to mix things up:

It’s a polished product, with no ads, no TikTok style video knockoffs, high quality photo uploads, and a decent recommendation engine. It has all the ingredients it needs for success.

Now, don’t get me wrong, Meta will likely ruin it eventually by A/B testing it to death to maximize revenue.

If Lemmy ends up with enough interesting content that it supplants Reddit as a source for vapid YouTube channels’ content, I see that as a win for Lemmy.

I’d argue it is, because of the damage they’re doing to their brand.

I’ve said it in a couple other threads, but Reddit has other ways they can monetize their 3rd party app users, such as requiring subscriptions to use third party apps, or even by simply giving third party app devs a longer lead time to change to a paid model. Instead of doing either of those things, the CEO had a tantrum and alienated a bunch of people.

Exactly – this is almost certainly bad for Reddit’s business at this point. The problem here isn’t necessarily capitalism so much as it is a egocentric CEO gone mad with power.