I love Arrival, it's one of my favorites. The scene where she meets with the Chinese general at the gala was chilling, I love how she herself is confused for most of the movie and formulates her plan in that moment, in collaboration with him. I also love that the reason for first contact is that the aliens will need help centuries in the future, that's a pretty unique spin on the usual story.

The piece about her daughter is interesting I think but it's not the strongest part of the movie. I was disappointed that they shoehorn the romance at the end and have her and Ian fall in love. Honestly I would have been fine never knowing who her husband was, because the poignancy of the story was her own personal choices about having a child.

Also it's not that it makes you a pre-cog, it's more that it makes you unstuck in time, Billy Pilgrim style. She was perceiving her life nonlinearly.

if other fedi projects are any indication, likely a unified API will develop. Mastodon's API is supported by most other fedi projects, so you can use mobile apps interchangeably. If Lemmy becomes dominant then kbin would have to implement an API to match.

I would probably call them 'boards'. Communities is too long of a word imo and it makes it sound like the people subscribed all have some kind of shared culture or relationship. That definitely happens in some cases (there are subreddits which have built a community around them) but it's not universal.

But what are upvotes and downvotes? I would have assumed upvote is fave/star. Is downvote an emoji react?

Ok I'll have to try that tomorrow, cool.

The way I've seen this work previously on fedi is that people post "hey I made a new server, please boost for reach". That effectively announces the existence of the server to the network. It can be difficult to get noticed at first, if you are a single-user instance without many followers.

One of the best games ever made, (you won't) change my mind. Some battles are super difficult though, you really need to be strategic. I hope you have a good time!

Interesting, thanks. I don't see it when I look there though.

https://kbin.place/m/typedesign/newest

So maybe it's still local but it's being attributed to a remote magazine?

Do you mean like another kbin instance?

I'm also asking about remote Lemmy communities but I'm not sure if it matters or not, so my question may only apply to remote Kbin instances

the '4D Chess defense'. we can't keep saying that mistakes are actually intentional when there are so many examples of the mistakes, being made for the same reasons, by the same types of people (out of touch CEOs with terrible judgment)

I knew about commenting, but I'm really surprised that you can make posts too. That would be like posting to the Local feed on another fedi server. Wild

Missing replies has been a problem across fediverse for a while. There are some ways to mitigate it but they can be resource intensive. For example Akkoma fetches the missing replies when you open up a thread. It contacts the originating server's API (not ActivityPub) and requests the details for the thread. It works pretty well but I'm not sure it would scale for Lemmy/kbin which is going to be designed for huge threads.

I hope a good solution is figured out and maybe even can be implemented by other software projects across fedi.

Oh interesting, so are downvote counts only reflective of what my individual server has received? I assumed they at least federated between kbin and Lemmy even if the rest of fedi didn't have a way to understand them.

Steve Schmidt. He has a long history as a conservative strategist which is a huge red flag for me, but I think it would actually make him more palatable to right-wingers. I watch his show 'The Warning' and he makes a lot of sense with his positions. He is extremely clear in his criticisms of Trump, but he also doesn't focus on culture war nonsense. I'm willing to compromise as long as the person can think straight and face reality, which is seemingly an extremely high bar now.

As far as I know it's stored on both. Generally anything federated gets stored in multiple servers.