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  • It seems to be set per-instance - you can find out through their APIs:

    curl -L http://lemmy.world/api/v3/site | jq -r .site_view.local_site.actor_name_max_length (26)

    curl -L http://sh.itjust.works/api/v3/site | jq -r .site_view.local_site.actor_name_max_length (50)

  • It's certainly visually impressive.

    It might be serving a dual purpose though - it's a more dynamic experience for the viewer, than just a list of the upcoming shows, but it's also a technique that allows them to repeatedly lean on the mega-hits (Stranger Things & Squid Game), while yadda-yadda'ing the rest of the content (consisting largely of stuff purchased from broadcasters, mid films, and a graveyard of cancelled TV shows).

  • Severance, of course.

    A new show called 'Paradise' - a high-concept mystery about a Secret Service agent. I'm not entirely sure about it yet, but I'll keep watching for now.

  • Yeah, PieFed is more geared up for what ActivityPub terms 'Groups' (communities on Lemmy, magazines on Mbin, video channels on PeerTube, categories on NodeBB, certain type of blogs on WordPress, a.gup.pe groups, etc.).

    Whenever we see someone from a platform like Mastodon, it's because they've interacted with one of the above Group-types. There's already a bit of inter-op that you don't find on Lemmy - e.g. you can create a Poll for the people following you as a user, and they can vote on it - but there isn't the ability to follow them in return, like on Mbin. I believe improvements to things like this are on the 2025 Roadmap.

  • I used to think the same about Lindelof, but I like The Hunt (2020), and things like Watchmen and The Leftovers have been critically praised. I decided that I'd unfairly lumped him in with JJ Abrams and his gang. As with Knight though, whatever you think of his stuff, he's an experienced writer, and both of them nope-ing out of whatever it is that Disney wants doesn't auger well.

  • I enjoyed "The Adjustment Bureau", which this new writer (George Nolfi), directed.

    This project is still doomed though - having both Damon Lindelof and Steven Knight walk away from it is not an encouraging sign.

  • It's not following users in the same way you'd follow communities though - other users have a 'bell' icon in their profile, and if you click that you get notified when they make new posts.

    If you want to follow users in the ActivityPub sense, and have their content appear in your feed the same way that new posts in a community do, you'd need to use a platform geared up for it (e.g. MBIN, Mastodon, etc).

  • It's sound logic, but it looks like Netflix don't always buy / commission limited series - it's also just a label they slap on something when they're not going to renew it (e.g. fans were able to see that Bodies was cancelled, without an official announcement, because the tag was added later.)

  • Bot hates lemmy

    Jump
  • Let guess: Bot wants to use "it / its" pronouns. The same as 'DroneRights' did, who despite the similarly in name to 'DragonRider', and despite the fact that all these accounts are an obvious, boring, attack on trans rights, are all, like, totally different people.

  • I read that tweet as something that wasn't really about Fallout: New Vegas, and more as something using it as a vehicle for a joke (about adult women being nostalgic for the games they played as teenage boys).

  • I'm mean, sure - it looks a long way if go the south-east route. But there's a short-cut if you go northwest - Iceland, Greenland, New Zealand, bosch.

  • That community is deleted as far as anyone else can see (try your link with Private Browsing, or when logged out). It will remain visible to you, to allow you to change your mind and restore it, for 7 days I think.

    Therefore, you should be able to start up a new community with the name you want, and just forget about the old one.

  • If you fetch a community that your instance hasn't previously heard of, you can typically query the community's 'outbox' collection to get recent posts. So in Lemmy, you get 50 old posts, and then - once someone has subscribed - new posts start coming in.

    Different platforms have different formats for their outboxes - Lemmy uses Announce/Create/Page, a.gup.pe and PeerTube use Announce, with a URL that leads to a Note or Video, wordpress uses Create/Article. Because Lemmy already understands its own outbox format, it's able to get old posts from other Lemmy instances. It doesn't get old stuff for a.gup.pe, PeerTube, or wordpress though.

    So you might be wondering what outbox format nodebb uses - to which the answer is none. The outbox leads nowhere useful (they're in good company with MBIN on this). Anyway - this is why fetching a nodebb community won't come with any of its existing posts (but - as mentioned - new stuff will come in for subscribers)

  • I think it can happen for a number of reasons.

    One is that location plays a distressingly familiar role in romantic relationships (we fall in love with the people who happen to be around us). Another is that casual intimacy goes out of the window for many boys after a certain age - their friends and family have stopped touching them, so if a girl treats them as they normally would another female friend, and does something meaningless like gently squeeze their elbow, it's the most amount of intimacy the boy has experienced in a while, and it gets elevated beyond its intent.

  • Season 3 of a TV show comes with a significant wage increase for everyone involved, so 3 seasons (at least) is something that the sellers of a show always want, but the buyers are trying to avoid.

    On Netflix, it's become a pattern of all shows only getting 1 or 2 seasons, unless they're mega-hits, or dirt-cheap to produce in the first place.

    How well a show wraps up after 2 seasons often depends on how much the writers want to do the streamer's job for them. Tokyo Vice was a (rare) example of a good, self-contained, 2-season show.