Can confirm.
halm
joined 1 year ago
They're like Cylons
THERE ARE MANY COPIES
AND THEY HAVE A PLAN
Shocker! Good for them, course literature costs a literal fortune.
Yeah, but tech journos are so far up Big Tech's cloaca that they can't imagine any platform emerge without a business plan™. Couple that with their unreflected admiration for anything they're told is The Next Thing and you have the gushing bit you quoted.
I didn't bother clicking through, so grain of salt — wouldn't torrent indexers and search sites also be included in this many site blocks? Streaming sites seems to be the lowest hanging fruit.
very limited ability to self-brand
I mean, yeah. Especially when the content of your flawlessly customised site is federated to thousands other activity pub enabled sites with different stylesheets and aesthetics. That isn't a problem with Mastodon per se, it's just the nature of federation.
I do agree with your broader point that Mastodon has become synonymous with fediverse microblogging, which again is what most people associate with the fediverse, period.
Oh, still is.
"Lemmy is terrible!"
"Have you tried kbin?"
"kbin isn't developed, try mbin"
"I tried mbin, but piefed is better"
"I only use the comments section of federated Wordpress blogs, by email"
"Zomg you guys, somebody launched qbin"
30% self-congratulatory talk about how popular bluesky is this week.
TBF, Mastodon was the same when I joined. I just muted all mention of "mastodon" + variations, Bob's your uncle. Navel gazing meta discourse is the least exciting updates on any platform.
It is still funny to visit random egg profiles on there and see they only tooted once, two years ago, saying "so this is mastodon, wonder how this works" and then never again.
I'm not criticising my right to put in extra work to make promising efforts available on platforms that do not track users; I criticise the fact that the developers didn't do this in the first place.
But good work putting the onus on me, you complete corporate rando.
Nice idea, will follow how this develops, but — FFS, the pack CSVs are all on Google Docs.
Independent, trustworthy repository, plz.
we need to ban every platform such as Reddit, Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, Discord
Now you're talking.
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"I will never surrender!" The third 60th anniversary special script has a lovely, unfilmed coda for Wilfred Mott
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A short while back the BBC added a batch of new/never before seen scripts to their Doctor Who database, including the 60th specials. Tucked away at the tail end of "The giggle" is an alternate ending scene featuring Wilfred Mott that the late Bernard Cribbins didn't shoot before his demise:
THE DOCTOR And Grandad, where is he?
SYLVIA He’s off, shooting moles.
From offstage, a BANG!
SYLVIA (CONT’D) There he goes.
And all TURN to look.
There’s WILF, in his WHEELCHAIR, buzzing across the lawn, with a SHOTGUN.
WILF I’ll get ‘em! Don’t you worry, Doctor! You stay there! I’ll get the little..!
ALL laughing, except Rose.
ROSE Leave them alone!
WILF I will never surrender!
And Wilf glides away. All turn back to each other.
THE DOCTOR Don’t worry, I gave the moles a forcefield. Love the moles.
Here's to things left undone, Mr Cribbins. You live on in our hearts.
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Tom Baker's Fourth Doctor is headed for Victorian London in an upcoming Paternoster Gang box set from Big Finish
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[Tom] Baker, who famously played the Time Lord from 1974 to 1981, will be reprising the role this April. His Doctor joins the Paternoster Gang as they fight intergalactic crime in the latest entry to the Trespassers series.
He joins the cast made up of Neve McIntosh as great detective Madame Vastra, Catrin Stewart as her spouse Jenny Flint and Dan Starkey as their loyal valet Strax.
McIntosh added: "Acting with Tom Baker has been something I've wanted to do for so long. He was my Doctor growing up, from when I was hiding behind the sofa."
I'm thrilled TBH, I thought the chemistry between McIntosh, Stewart and Starkey made the previous Paternoster Gang sets some of the most campily enjoyable BF work I've heard. Add Tom Baker, even in his old age... Woof, this'll be good!
The podcast, which will start releasing weekly on Saturdays from March 2024, will showcase fan-favourite stories from Big Finish’s back catalogue, presented in episodic, 30-minute instalments.
Each episode will feature a brand-new introduction read by Sixth Doctor star Colin Baker, and will also include behind-the-scenes interviews, with the podcast being available via all podcast platforms, with listeners able to stream it for free with ads.
Actors come and go in the part of the Doctor, it's a revolving door by nature. But it struck me just now how long Nicholas Briggs has been doing the role as his nemeses, the Daleks.
Or rather, I'm wondering exactly how long he has been turning the knobs on the old ring modulator? IMDb gives his earliest Dalek credit as 2000's Doctor who: The apocalypse element, but surely they aren't listing all of his audio plays?
Big finish got the rights to produce Doctor who audios in 1999, were there any Dalek bits by him there — giving him an early silver jubilee this year — or perhaps earlier in unlicensed fan works?
I hope somebody better versed in the extended universe can help answer this. Either way, the fact that Briggs has played the same part in Who productions longer than the entirety of the revived series has been on the air is... monumental.
Cool. Now use the data to get them all blacklisted on dating sites, that should reestablish some semblance of balance.