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Context: I made a poll on PieFed about the new post flairs (so if you are one of the few hundred people who have a PieFed account, follow that link and answer there). Unfortunately Lemmy has neither polls nor post flairs, so this post is to open up the discussion to the wider Fediverse, or rather the subset of it that encompasses Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed, which is called... what exactly?
Is Threadiverse too traumatic & tainted by association with Meta's (all but entirely defunct) Threads? Is The Verse too cool/poetic/nerdy (but niche) to be understood? I highly advise against Lemmyverse bc mainstream normal people are far less tolerant of tankies than we who are here are willing to put up with. Simply listing the software available sometimes is the best option - like the Interstellar app supports all of Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed, but most support at best 1 or 2 of those - but usually is too long to say and does not roll off the tongue, plus will just keep growing as time goes on. Is Forumverse thus the least bad of the available options, or perhaps you have a better idea? š”
Anyway, the start to a listing:
1) Threadiverse
2) Forumverse
3) (The) Verse
4) Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed
5) Something else?
Serenity Firefly Quote Painting Painting by Michelle EshlemanPixels
Jayne is gross as fuck, Mal canāt stop calling Inara āwhoreā every episode in a way that feels so indulgent, itās a celebration of confederados, the list goes on.
Malās got this whole āIāve got a codeā and āIām loyal to my CREWā shtick thatās trite and makes his morality too flexible which bumps against his āaww shucks I have a heart of goldā moments. They never critique his ācodeā which is actually pretty deranged, they just show these moments where he does the right thing and go āSee? The confederado is actually a Nice Guy!ā
Like letās take a look at what heās fighting against - yes, the government did something heinous with River, but heās not trying to right that wrong nor was is the catalyst for why he is who he is. In fact, he goes out of his way not to do the right thing with her and constantly threatens to throw river and Simon out.
Look at all these outpost towns that he ends up causing trouble in half the time because he wants to stick it to the government. He doesnāt have to live this life. He chooses it. Like Iām supposed to be proud of him for stealing medical supplies, realizing he didnāt do his due diligence in the slightest and regretted committing a crime, then not stealing it? He shouldnāt have been in that position in the first place. All he did was not consign a bunch of people to death -
huge problem on their hands that happened because of him! Weāre supposed to find that sympathetic and sweet?
The anti-hero thing did not age well. It doesnāt have any commentary and it doesnāt assess these moments with any sort of critical eye. Most of the crew is fine but Mal and Jayne (especially given what we now know about Baldwin) aged like milk and make it really hard to watch.
