I take it this is a reference to... Something, but I can't figure it out. What?
Baku
I don't know if they meet your criteria for a franchise, but any forum based website (including Reddit, Lemmy, etc) always ends up with at least 1 office, friends, or IT crowd reference somewhere in the thread. They're definitely essential pop culture pillars, even if they don't qualify as franchises
I've still never seen any of them though
I'm 17, and either dislike or don't know most of them. Here's my thoughts on most of them, if anybody's curious:
Star wars - don't like it
James Bond - never seen it
Lord of the rings - never seen ir
Sherlock Holmes - don't like it
Batman - hate it
Superman - never seen it
Spiderman - don't like it
Mission Impossible -never seen of it
Mario - played and enjoyed Mario kart, that's about it
Zelda - never seen it
Pokemon - never seen it
Indiana Jones - don't like it
Back to the Future - I saw it but don't really remember anything from it, mostly forgettable
The Karate Kid - I watched it when I was too young to care, but I think I'd like it if I watched it now
A Nightmare on Elm Street - liked it
Friday the 13th - I know it, but can't remember if I've seen it
Child's Play - watched one of them, got bored halfway through
It - liked it
Rambo - liked it
Rocky - never seen it
Jurassic Park - seen it, no strong feelings
The Matrix - got bored by the 30 minute mark and turned it off
The Terminator - never seen it
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - don't like it
Transformers - never seen (or played?) it
The Simpsons - seen most of it, love some of it
Barbie - heard the song, nothing more
GI Joe - not a clue who/what that is
He-Man/Masters of the universe - as above
Mickey Mouse - I sometimes watched Mickey mouse club house before school, but wasn't a huge fan
Toy Story - I watched (and liked) the first two
Looney Tunes - liked it
King Kong - I've heard of it but don't know if it's a toy or a tv show or what
Godzilla - I saw one of the sequels and enjoyed it
Planet of the Apes - never seen it
Mad Max - never seen it, but I live in Australia and like the outback, so this gets quoted at me at least monthly
The Muppets - I think the Muppets had a cameo in toy story or something, but I don't really know much about it
The Godfather - I really really tried to watch and enjoy this earlier this year. I turned my phone off so I wouldn't get distracted, I sat down, I ordered a pizza, I did my very best to watch and enjoy it, but I was so mind numbingly bored by the hour and a half mark that I gave up
Ghostbusters - I think I've seen bits and pieces
Alien - no, but I have seen ET
Star Trek - I don't know or care what the difference is between this and star war
Robocop - I watched one of them on late night tv a few years ago, when I was around half the age it was classified for. Barely remember it
Frankenstein - never seen (or read?) it
Dracula - never seen
Tarzan - never seen
Conan the Barbarian - never even heard of it
Jaws - I saw one
Harry Potter - hate it
The Incredible Hulk - hate ir
The Dollars Trilogy - not a clue who or what this is
Sesame Street - don't like it
The Hannibal Lecter series - don't know who or what this is
MASH - I'm pretty sure this was always on after the Simpsons finished at 7, and everybody loves Raymond was on before. I didn't like either of them. But then again, I was 5 or 6 and only interested in the Simpsons and nothing else, so I probably wasn't the target audience
I pretty much only browse Lemmy on either /local new/top day, or /all new. But to be fair, I mainly only care about local communities (and I'm on a local instance), and memes. I think if I used a general purpose instance, particularly one without its own communities, I would probably used subscribed mostly
I block about 20 or so communities. A few are ideological ones that although I don't dislike/disagree with, I just don't want to hear about, a couple of the star trek ones, pretty much anything with "news" or "politics" in the name, since that tends to be very American centric, or in the case of world news, mostly things only Americans would care about, and I also blocked the Baldur's gate and helldivers communities because they were constantly in my /all feed a while ago. I also block lemmit.online or whatever it is (an entire instance), because it was just reposts of Reddit posts made by a bot which annoyed me when I wanted to search for things
My instance federates with Lemmy World, but because of some technical issue with server lag, we don't see posts from lemmy.world for about a week (posts in LW communities from non LW users do pop up, but upvotes and sometimes comments don't federate, so they won't appear in all unless I scroll really deep). That has the effect of essentially meaning I don't see any posts in LW communities in /all unless I sort by top month or new
The issue is two fold. The first devices which don't support 4g, and the second is the loss of coverage with the decommissioning of 3G. That's what my last comment focussed on.
I don't think anyone's really suggesting we keep 3g in the metro areas. Almost the entirety of the greater Melbourne area has 4g, with a fair chunk having 5g, and I think most major cities in the country have almost complete 4g coverage.
But in the country, there's so many places I've been through, even in the last few months, where I've only had 3g/H+, that I also don't foresee them rolling out 4g to any time soon, let alone the any time this decade. 3g can travel further than 4g, and a lot further than 5g, which means it's all well and good that they've converted all of their 3g towers to also have 4g dishes, but unless they actually build new 4g towers, it's still a net downgrade.
I'm a little late, but I was just realising I hadn't heard from the bot and was wondering what happened to it. I'm sad to see it go, although I do understand why.
If you decide to bring it back, perhaps a system where it deletes its comment once downvoted below -1. I think the Reddit bot did that. That way there's a mechanism to remove inaccurate comments. I can't remember if the bot already had something like this, but if it didn't, perhaps a user, community, and instance opt out system could be implemented. I think if iirc, the previous system was basically "if you don't like it, just ban the bot" (although I may be getting mixed up with other bots. That sort of approach often makes some people upset as they may see it as unsolicited spam with no proper opt out system.
In any case, I don't think this will be the end for AutoTLDR (or a derivative), and I'm keen to see what other projects you come out with!
Thanks for running the bot for so long, most of us appreciate it♥️
I thought they would've already done that
I had to make a police report yesterday, and they wanted me to upload evidence. The (text) message they sent was along the lines of: "A. Last name requests evidence from you. Click here to submit evidence. vp.au/evidence"
I really wish there was a mainstream social media site Americans were forbidden from using, or at least a way to automatically block/hide them, and their petty little political turf wars from my feed, no matter how I sort.