Seemed like this discussion was about the technical capabilities, not the user generated content. Anyway if you compare the beginning of reddit (e.g., the early days after digg's implosion) to lemmy today, I'd bet lemmy is doing just fine on the content side too. And even leaving that aside, there's a quality over quantity aspect in the discussions that heavily leans in lemmy's favor.

I'm happy to move to a tighter community with more engagement and honestly I like that the fediverse has a higher bar to entry. Reddit discussions used to provide answers, but the quality of dialog there has regressed to the mean.

Yeah, I swear they put something in them to back your system up tight. Except for the little gum packs. We were pretty sure those had a laxative to let it all out. Also, fuck jambalaya.

Usenet lost out to the convenience and better styling options available on Web 2.0. Not because of it's users.

TV show hasn't quite caught up to the end of the first book yet, but it's close. And I think this is actually a better end for the first season than trying to match the book.

From what I could tell the books were released somewhat piecemeal, more like a bunch of little novellas, and were compiled into the three main books later.

It depends on what about grimdark appeals to you.

For ultraviolence: Acts of Caine by Matt Stover, especially the first book. Though this is maybe sci-fi?

For snobbery hoity toity book club cred: Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe

For ultimate chunk: The Malazan Cycle by Steven Erikson. I recommend reading with a wiki open. It's worth the struggle, but it IS a struggle to get started.

I think it's more general inflation than any particular tariff or manuafacturing cost.

What does EP mean?

Also, I didn't know they were adapting Murderbot. That should be fun.

Do they still have the little gum packets that open the pipes back up?

Humane pemmican?

I wish I could commit to watching an hour for each episode. If they did 20 minute videos I'd watch a lot more.