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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.

I'm mostly into serialised content. I don't especially care for anthological shows, classical westerns or episodic procedural "monster of the week" formats (which was the prevailing style of TV up until the end of the 00s). I like 'long-form' high budget or at least mid budget serialised content with between 8-12 episodes a season that is now dominant. I also like primarily speculative fiction: sci-fi, dystopian, fantasy, post-apocalyptic settings that were much less common until the end of the 00s. I also like to see 'grit' and 'grimdark' settings, and it's undeniable that TV is now more risque, with more violence, nudity etc than it was then.

I also like to see non-American content, and in the 60s and 70s it was pretty much ONLY american and UK content (mostly American) that existed that was any worth. There was no Korean, German, French, Swedish etc dramas of any worth at all.

I think almost every single dramatic program from the 60s would seriously look dated as hell to any modern audience now. In both topic and effects.

I personally would submit 2011-2021, and that's not recency bias.

If your preferred format is episodic, or sitcoms then you'll disagree

I agree although I am not sure Chandler Riggs was up to it

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.

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.

Thing about the 20-24 episode format was that it felt different from films. A modern TV season, to me, feels like a stretched out film. Older TV felt more like chill time … like going to a restaurant you like and visit once a week … like hanging with friends. Which may or may not be laudable … but I think it was a different feeling from films.

You can still find that format in network TV. Of course it's mostly police, medical and lawyer shows but then that was always the case then anyway. A lot of younger people don't like the MOTW of the week 'chilled' format because everything felt irrelevant. The plot would resolve within the episode and the team would live, except maybe on a mid-season episode or end of-season arc. Everything would feel flat. Most modern TV shows are indeed now long-form movies (if we're being reductive) but the extra time to build and advance wider plots and do larger worldbuilding is why, or partially why, they've eaten into the diversity of contemporary cinema.

I mean this is a specific format of the west. Korean dramas, for instance, do not necessarily have that format. I assume you've watched Severance, by the way.

Otherwise I would note Dark, Foundation, Altered Carbon

I also don't see it's substantively more notable than the old 20-24 episode monster of the week format that was prominent prior to streamnig.

Did you like the shows you listed there?

For my money, I’d just gotten tired of the whole streaming TV schtick. Modern TV seasons are too often written like cheap LOTR trilogies (8-12 x 40-60 mins = LOTR trilogy runtime) with filler and contrived drama or stakes. Compared to a decent or good film, modern TV kinda sucks IMO. I’m rather sad right now TBH.

What modern TV have you seen? What sort of thigs do you like?