thegiddystitcher
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- Comment on [Memeo] Birdoj 7 months ago:
There’s one doing this right outside my bedroom window as we speak, just woke me up earlier than necessary on a bank holiday.
Mi esperas, ke li estas eterne sola 😒
- Comment on Lower Decks: Can anyone tell me what I'm missing? 11 months ago:
I knew that would be a step too far. The dream is dead 😆
- Comment on Lower Decks: Can anyone tell me what I'm missing? 11 months ago:
Yes! Although, I have to admit I’ve never rewatched Farscape since it was originally on, I was still in school and me and my bestie were obsessed. Kind of worried to rewatch and find it doesn’t hold up. Firefly on the other hand, totally holds up!
Ok this will put the cat among the pigeons. And I probably shouldn’t be admitting it on the internet, but I just have to know…
spoiler
For all I love scifi, I cannot stand the Battlestar Galactica remake. Thoughts?
- Comment on Lower Decks: Can anyone tell me what I'm missing? 11 months ago:
Oh well, no further recommendations from me. But hello Trek-preferences twin, I guess :D
- Comment on Lower Decks: Can anyone tell me what I'm missing? 11 months ago:
I’m completely with you on this, LD is clearly a hit with a lot of people and that makes me happy to see, but the show is just not for me. The characters are indeed way too hyper all the time which is tiring to watch, and I think it’s a shame because the concept and even a lot of the plots could be funny, but the characters never grow or change or become any less the absolute worst, so it’s kind of a wasted opportunity.
Anyway I’m not replying to dunk on LD. It’s a tv show and I don’t personally like it, whatever. I am replying to ask if you’ve tried The Orville.
Go with me here, because I assumed it was going to be just more of the kiddie style humour like LD. And it sort of is at first, so on my first attempt I bounced off the first episode and didn’t go back for a year. But we seem to have basically the same taste when it comes to Trek and I can honestly say The Orville turned into some of the best Trek I’ve seen. It’s got its weak points and annoying characters like anything else, but they’re a bit more like real people who change over time based on their experiences and aren’t just stuck in that typical animated show loop of being exactly the same again at the start of each new episode.
You might like it, you might not. Just a suggestion! :)
- Comment on Hidden comments? 11 months ago:
I was going to suggest you might have bot posts turned off, as that seems to confuse the UI. But the other reply is not from a bot, and it’s not a federation thing either since you and I are on the same instance and I see it just fine. Interesting!
- Comment on What does it look like for a YouTube creator when the audience uses something like NewPipe or Freetube? 11 months ago:
Weirdly, the viewcount is completely different in the three highlighted areas, I don’t really know what that means, but perhaps someone else can explain it?
I know it’s not really important but just in case anyone’s curious. The bottom right is showing the video’s all-time views (43). The top left is showing the video’s views over the last 48 hours (34). And the main graph in the middle of the screen is usually on a delay, so is probably not counting today’s views yet hence the (19).
- Comment on What does it look like for a YouTube creator when the audience uses something like NewPipe or Freetube? 11 months ago:
Oh yeah I don’t care. My videos go up on PeerTube as well, don’t make any money there, just enjoy sharing my crafts with people really! I won’t deny the bit of extra cash is nice and it definitely helps afford stuff for new videos, which I struggled with sometimes before getting monetised. But that doesn’t take much, anything else is just a bonus.
You’d probably get a different answer from someone who’s into it like a proper business and trying to grow grow grow.
- Comment on What does it look like for a YouTube creator when the audience uses something like NewPipe or Freetube? 11 months ago:
There is definitely the concept of monetised (ie ad-viewing) vs unmonetised views, here’s a random day example from mine:
Unfortunately I can’t see a way to filter to just unmonetised views, to take a look at the traffic sources. I did have a quick look through the traffic sources in general though and can’t see any of the popular frontends listed in external, other YT, or anywhere else. So if those views are counted (which it seems like they are from the experiment in top comment) I expect they probably end up in one of the “unknown” buckets. Whether that means it really is unknown or just that YT don’t want to be drawing attention to these services by name, who knows.
- Comment on Are there any notable content creators that focus on content other than niche tech and US political on Mastodon? 11 months ago:
It could actually be an instance thing, because depending on what’s actually federated with you you’ll get different results.
One thing I like to do for my main tags is do an occasional trawl through the results on that site I linked, and compare it to search results from my server. Anyone not showing up is either on an instance that mine has blocked (in which case booo) or they’re just not federated yet because nobody on my server follows them. In which case I follow them!
This can be a big advantage of themed instances because if you’re on, say, warhammer.social then chances are the people on there with you are already following lots of people posting about it elsewhere and so you’ll get lots of search results. But if you’re on, idk, an instance about birdwatching then it’s less likely to already have a lot of Warhammer content federated and waiting.
One of my accounts is on a tiny creative server so I’m good for knitting content but struggle a bit with the weekly NFL live-tooting for obvious reasons!
And yeah I do agree following hashtags isn’t the be all end all (especially with the lack of language filter), but it’s a good way to start at least finding those people you want to specifically follow 🙂
- Comment on Are there any notable content creators that focus on content other than niche tech and US political on Mastodon? 11 months ago:
Oh are you kidding there’s SO MUCH Warhammer on Mastodon. Check out the local feed of warhammer.social. There’s also wargamers.social but obviously a bit broader in focus.
Even if you just follow #Warhammer there’s a decent amount but then you can add in other tags like #Warhammer40k, #GamesWorkshop, #AgeOfSigmar, #Necromunda, #BloodBowl, #WarHamFam, #WarhammerCommunity, #Wargaming, #MiniaturePainting and damn we have got ourselves a feed going!
I’m sure I read a post on one of the communities here recently that was showing off their entry to a Mastodon-based painting competition as well.
As far as things like gaming go obviously that’s a pretty wide topic and it’s gonna depend what you’re looking for. #VideoGames or #Gaming for example gets you a lot of news headlines. Specific game tags e.g #Starfield will get you a mixture of news, streamers, screenshots, memes and of course people aggressively complaining. Or maybe you’re interested in seeing what sorts of games small indie creators are making in which case something like #DevLog might be of interest.
I know your original post is asking for “notable content creators” which it seems like you’re using to mean “big accounts”. But really if it’s interesting content on a topic you enjoy, the size of the account posting it doesn’t matter.
And naturally since you said you’re open to other “quality content” I do also recommend #Knitting because we’re surprisingly active and also cool af.
- Comment on Are there any notable content creators that focus on content other than niche tech and US political on Mastodon? 11 months ago:
What topics are you looking for? These threads never specify what topics you’re looking for! 😄
