Third, Christian nationalism is, again, not relevant to these people. They do not see it as real nor do they see it as a real problem. They may engage with this discussion. So I don’t see a need to reword this one.

The literal current Republican speaker of the House stated outright that the USA is "depraved" and key parts of his reasoning for this was the prominence of LGBT people in modern culture and declining church attendance and religious observation.

I fully agree that your average random Republican doesn't necessarily hate LGBT people, or non-theists but they're simply not paying attention to the outrageous crap many elected representatives are saying.

Unfortunately, many Republican elected representatives are, to varying degrees, anti-LGBT and do support Christian encroachment into non-religious people's lives.

Mine is that Breaking Bad, The Wire and The Sopranos - often touted as the 'big three' TV shows simply hold no interest to me. I recognise that they're all done very well and probably at the peak of their genre, but I don't really like crime, gangster and especially police shows.

got is like a bad off brand xenia warrior princess…

It has nothing in common with Xena other than being in the fantasy genre.

You may not like GOT, but that doesn't make it awful.

I'm doing it to drive traffic to communities I run (and the platform in a more general sense). I'm not a bot, I don't care about personal upvotes or boosts. Small reddit-like sites need content.

What? There's tons of TV shows, many high budget, released in the last year

Do you actually like serialised content? Most TV is now serialised, as opposed to being episodic like X-Files.

True, but this is also because there's no Steam Storefront option for people who like to watch TV.

That's always been true though, and there's always been high quality 'prestige' TV.

Although I no longer regard it as near my favourite: The Walking Dead.

It did have a remake attempt in 2009

I’d be interested if people in Europe find the current system to be a significant hassle or not.

It just means people pirate. This really should've been solved some time ago. A TV show being accessible does not inherently mean that it must be streamed, it could be a digital download. This is why a Steam storefront-type setup should exist for TV with no blocks. You can buy any TV show you like, £10-15 a season (prices could vary obviously) and it's yours. Netflix and Amazon and Disney etc would exist alongside it as streamers. Or the EU should've thought about a pan-european streaming service.

The European Parliament should've just alternatively done this.

If you refuse to make your TV show legally accessible either to stream or to download for a certain country, piracy of that show within that country should be legal

The Expanse isn't even implausible in 5 years or so if Amazon wants to revisit it

I said steam storefront, so I don't mean specifically asking for a subscription service. I mean if I want to watch a TV show now, I have to subscribe to a service. There's no option to buy it digitally in most cases.

Network TV still does police and medical shows that have a 'monster/crime of the week' style, but it's rare now.

So you mostly like episodic formats.

Federation has its downsides though, there's less cohesion across the board. A lemmy/kbin platform may have 20,000 users (an example) but most of them might end up with interacting on instances outside of the one they signed up on. Whereas everyone on Discuit, for instance, will be only interacting on Discuit. There's something to be said for how a userbase is spread, not just the amount of users. If Kbin wasn't federated and its own thing, its user trajectory and interaction could've been different - although having only recently arrived, I understand that features had stalled for a long time.

I think the long-term trend of federation is smaller instances simply shutting down due to lack of interest/money in maintaining it without any noticeable growth and a small bloc of highly used instances dominating, one main one, and probably some politically charged ones orbiting it. Yes, anyone if they're annoyed with a particular instance can just down their tools and migrate to another instance - but if you've got or run communities on that instance, it is a downside.

Although in Discuits case, yes, it is really, really basic - and that more than anything likely stopped it growing before anything else. There was also administrative problems and other issues that drained users. It hypothetically federating wouldn't help it at all. Their users would just stop using Discuit and use the larger communities all across Lemmy.

Yeah, but it probably didn't have a big enough base fanbase.

It's mostly Netflix that dumps it all at once.

HBO, Apple TV and Prime still usually do staggered releases.

It still transcended that.