I saw this episode as a kid when my parents were watching through TNG, and it was absolutely seared into my consciousness. It was amazing to re-watch as an adult and see how much I’d remembered. One other one I remembered vividly is “Identity Crisis” S4E18 — still freaks me out.

ngl, I have spent way too much time thinking about those very points 😅

I actually make this joke…I say it’s not fetaverse like the cheese, but fedi as in federated* 😄 always gets a laugh

• (Although, there’s no i in the word federated, so that’s odd 😜)

Exactly. There’s been far too much talk about the theoretical benefits of AT Proto’s decentralization. Until we see it actually happening at small scales manageable by independent operators, it’s nothing more than vaporware. And I don’t understand why some other group raising millions of dollars has to prove it out. You could set up decentralized Mastodon instances that all talk to each other, like, 7 years ago. And that didn’t require millions of dollars.

I am trying to be circumspect and give them the benefit of the doubt, but it is a bit unnerving in light of all the (awful) moderation (er, not) talk on other platforms right now.

Hopefully we don’t see bad-faith actors taking advantage of this in the near-future…

Miners, not minors!

That was a hell of a thing.

By Grabthar’s hammer…what a savings.

So many good quotes in this movie! I could go on and on and on 🤣

lol 😂

but yeah, it IS coming.

The slow drip of fediverse features has been frustrating, but it feels like there’s finally light at the end of the tunnel. It’s been absolutely amazing even having the level of interop we have between Mastodon <-> Threads, and it’s about to get so much better. I feel like a whole lot of people out there who think they’re getting what they need out of Bluesky (news, memes, friends, whatever) would get much the same experience if they were just using the fediverse as ActivityPub intended (aka sign up for a variety of services and wire 'em up!).

I came here to post the same quote. It made me want to gouge my eyes out. 😭

I can tell you right now nobody’s on Bluesky because it’s “decentralized” because the evidence is clear, it’s not in practice decentralized lol.

This is all a bloody waste of time. I really wish I could just fast-forward two years into the enshittification when everyone realizes they got duped by Big VC. Again.