The Matrix is unprecedented indeed. Perfect intro too.

It was good for the first 2-3 first episodes, but it was going down for me later on. I didn’t actually finish it.

it is, but what’s depicted is true. Even Luis Elizondo said “stick with it”, that there’s something to it.

I can’t find it on either Izzy or f-droid. I can only find infinity for reddit.

My favorite is PixelFed. I’m an artist, so Instagram was important for me, but for a few years now it’s absolutely terrible (no reach at all with their special algorithms). PixelFed fixes all that, it replicates the feeling of IG as it was 8-10 years ago: chronological feed, tag-based, no extraneous features. I’m really enjoying it, as I can finally grow again my followship as an artist: https://pixelfed.org/

Is it on f-droid? I don’t have google play store, I run a totally degoogled phone.

I grew up very poor in Greece, and my mom used to give us a slice of bread that had poured white sugar on it, and… olive oil. It was many years later that I realized that these were deconstructed donuts.

I always use the subscription feed, in fact, my custom homepage has a link to specifically that page. However, my husband didn’t even notice that there was such an option and only uses the recommended feed (we talked about it recently). I personally can’t stand recommendation engines. These have destroyed my art business in social media platforms. I need chronological.

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I think they gave the project to the wrong filmmaker though. She is more of an indie filmmaker, not a blockbuster one. You know who would do a good blockbuster, even if they only have 1 feature film on their belt, and only a handful of short films? The two brothers who did this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos_(2019_film) They made their film for only $7k, and they made extreme efforts to feel like an Amblin-era Spielberg blockbuster. For $7k. I can’t even grasp what they can do with $100 mil!

It’s lack of vision, and corporate control. These amazing writers and directors who signed in for this project did it for the bucks. They delivered a cookie cutter product, as the boss asked them to. They didn’t approach it with passion, with innovation, with blood-pumping mystery and intrigue. It’s just a well-paying job to them, and a resume line. So, it doesn’t come out good.

At this point, I dislike ALL marvel TV shows on D+. Loki was the best for me, but they kind of destroyed his character, so that fell flat too.

From the Star Wars side, the first 2 seasons of Mandalorian were good, and also Andor. Neither Boba Fett nor Kenobi were good (they felt as flat as Marvel shows feel). Andor is probably the most well done show in the whole of D+. And the reason for it is simple: Tony Gilroy was left alone to realize his vision, a vision he always wanted to do, but wasn’t given the opportunity before. In fact, Disney was completely hands-off. Neither Kennedy nor Disney interfered, because they believed that the show will be kind of underground (and indeed, they didn’t market it much). So they kind of ignored it. The ONLY thing they asked Gilroy to change was the F-word in the last episode.

But in the Marvel side, everything goes through Kevin Feige, and everything get homogenized so it appeals to everyone. Hence that final feeling of blah.

For Marvel to survive, they need to give voice to talents to provide us with a unique vision, like we’ve seen with Andor, or Joker (while at the same time, keeping the timeline intact, of course).

I don’t like infinite scrolling. It’s resource heavy after a while.

Not to me.

That’s because the algorithm doesn’t favor the users, it favors the algorithm itself, brands, and celebrities. Just like with Instagram’s AI recommendations, that is. There is no point dabbling into such apps. It’s the equivalent of a tree falling in the forest and no one’s there to hear it. I had the same problem with BlueSky btw: Crickets… Long live the chronological, federated media!

their drivers aren’t open, so there are always crashes and bugs that they can’t be fixed, because nvidia can’t test with all the distros, or all wayland implementations, or games under linux. Intel drivers are the most rock solid under linux.

I have two personas. One with a google phone with FB (to talk to my mom to Greece), and a macbook. And another with a de-googled Murena eOS phone and Linux laptop. One of these two personas will die once I move to Greece next year. I don’t mind not being able to talk to friends on FB or IG. If they want to find me, there’s email, or they can join federated social media. I won’t miss them.

Dark themes are not as readable for me.

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In terms of reaching lots of people I haven’t had much luck with either Threads or Bluesky to be honest. I tried both, and I wasn’t really that impressed with crickets. The best are chronological feeds with or without keywords/hashtag searching. For that, I stay loyal to open source, federated systems. I get more eyes on chronologically-based social media than either of any of these corporate ones.

Maybe some bigger subreddits are dying, but the UFOs and Experiencers subreddits are as active as ever, if not more. I guess these remain big there because these subjects are very censored in other social media (e.g. youtube) and never show up in search results (they show only videos from tv news). Reddit also censors them (e.g. some posts that contain more info than usual), but you can still see these posts when you go to these subreddits directly.