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I’ve met a few:

• Richard E Grant - lovely

• Ray Harryhausen - I was a bit awestruck

• Salman Rushdie - scary levels of security

• Wilfred Thesiger - weird experience as it felt like meeting someone from another age

They are reprinting them at the moment so don’t rule it out but it’s a relatively expensive undertaking and so it’s unlikely that they’d splash out on Legends material unless they sell well. Eventually AI will bang these out I suppose.

Yes, some people complain about duplicate communities but it’s a feature not a bug - it provides redundancy, they can have different spins on the topic and evolution can be at work (badly run a community and it will wither and die while others thrive).

Once we have “multicommunities” it really won’t matter if there are similar communities on different instances, once grouped you may not even notice which instance it’s on without checking. So we’ll have all the pros and few of the cons.

Definitely this - they’re some of the best military science-fiction and, along with The Clone Wars series, give Order 66 a lot of added weight.

I feel like it will be bad because authors won’t have freedom to make things their way.

The series both disproves and proves this statement - Karen Traviss definitely had the freedom to make things her own way until she didn’t. She stopped writing because she didn’t feel she could make it work with the new status quo (although I think if you squint a bit and lean into the “legends” idea, that these are legends which may have happened from a certain point of view even if all the details may not be correct, it can still work, at least for me).

Apparently I like villain books.

I joked to a friend that a disproportionate number of my Star Wars books have “Darth” in the title.

Yes, and you can join today.

I’m not seeing any of that. Not saying it is a good or bad thing, just a thing. So OP has choices, perhaps going to a smaller instance will help as I assume lemmy.world’s “all” is probably quite the firehose of diverse content by now.

Twice a day, first thing in the morning and when I am going out in the evening. I use mouthwash about three times a day after eating.

I suspect the problem is you are on lemmy.world and that has become the default instance so everyone is trying to duplicate Reddit on there. So your “all” is becoming the hellscape that was the Reddit front page (perhaps worse as there’s no filtering algorithm).

Meanwhile, I’m on a smaller instance and my interactions with lemmy.world are through communities I have joined on here. So my “all” and subscribed feeds are fine.

So find yourself either a regional instance or one that reflects your interests and move there (there are scripts that will make this straightforward). You’ll probably start enjoying the threadiverse experience again.

A few picks:

• Braindead/Dead Alive
• Tokyo Gore Police
• Adam Chaplin
• Story of Ricky
• Body Melt
• Boxer’s Omen
• Martyrs (2008)
• Pick something at random from Takashi Miike: Visitor Q? Ichi the Killer?

Communities or magazines on kbin.

Is that really so though? Assuming some small percentage of the user base chooses to donate, would that not scale as the instance gets larger, as long as the percentage stays about the same?

I would guess that it wouldn’t scale in a linear fashion - earlier adopters who saw first-hand all the problems and what the admins had to do would tend to be more appreciative of their efforts than folks who arrive further down the line when everything is humming along.

That said, donating isn’t the only string to the funding bow - affiliate links would tend to scale linearly with user numbers and I imagine we’ll see bots or even hard coded regular expressions that spot links people add and tag an affiliate link on the end. If they are going to be used, instance admins might as well claw some cash back.

I appreciate your missionary zeal. I can’t yet get up the energy to look at it - there’s so much more interesting stuff over on this side of the fence.

Yeah, I was wondering if you could set it to just broadcast, letting people know the Fediverse is your new home now. Throw them a lifeline.

!slide@feddit.uk has subreddits as a feature built in and, while it is still early days, there’s no reason it couldn’t work here (Calckey has antennas which is, probably, fancier).

I’m still experimenting but it looks like I’ll be using Mastodon as my hub - I can follow users on the Fediverse and communities on Lemmy. As I can follow my various Fediverse accounts (and bring them all together in a list) I can post about any of it to my feed there.

This interoperability may be a big selling point of the Fediverse - rather than competing apps that try and keep users within their own spheres of control, the Fediverse apps play nicely together, so you can use the right tool for the job and then post about it elsewhere. So I may use Pixelfed for photo sharing or Peertube for videos, but it is trivial to also post about this on Mastodon and not that much effort make a post on it in Lemmy.

I got it to work through the Lemmy web interface before but can’t make it work now. Equally, I can’t get their profile up to follow on Mastodon.

I don’t know the cause of that but it might be an issue with that instance or federation in general.

edit and now it works just fine. Keep plugging away.

Worth noting that, as I posted the link above, the profile now appears below my post.

Update: i failed miserably, i tried to search this entry https://mstdn.social/@Argyle13@xarxa.cloud/110615667838401899

That looks like too much… stuff in the URL.

It looks like:

• you are on mastdn.social
• trying to view the user: @Argyle13@xarxa.cloud
• whose link would be something like: https://xarxa.cloud/@Argyle13
• making them: Celia Valdeolmillos
• the post ID would then, I assume, be: 110615667838401899

edit: and just to say that using the link above in the way I demonstrated gets that user’s profile brought through.

In the web interface, search “all” with the link. Worked for me

There’s a few more that I list here.