Agreed!

At the same time, there is certainly much hay to be reaped from the amount of utter bullshit that we moderns have unwittingly deluded ourselves upon.

That is also some monumental stoopidery that can be addressed, n’est-ce pas ?

I don’t understand those terms in the slightest, but interesting thoughts! The herd-mentality is certainly worth examining, whilst strictly avoiding the conspiracy-based shizzle.

So we stick to facts & reality as closely as possible, mainly springing from the realm of science.

Haha, and here’s a question for the likes of you:

Upon an egalitarian network of folks talking, why are you here, really?

OP was exactly getting at facts & reality.

Shame on you weirdos for erasing the post, and how you treated OP.

Wow, I was prepared for Martian Chronicles or maybe a PKD story, but I love it! <3

I hate to recommend the evil empire, but there’s a very good sub on this topic called r/AmerExit. Sometimes a community is too niche to exist on the Fediverse, and one must hold one’s nose and visit Reddit for certain content.

As the article states, it was much more than just a metaphor, and more of a ‘here’s our current understanding’ thing.

And plenty of people took that seriously IME.

Wow, impressive comment. Username checks out!

I seem to recall that the death of man was considered a gift, as it was a release from the burden of immortality. Also, that some elves could fade away as a counterpart to living endlessly or being killed somehow. (that’s all before returning to the Halls of Mandos, TBC)

And that dwarves were sort of animated mountainous material, and would return thusly.

I’m not much of a scholar, though. Beyond reading the Silmarillion and poring over the LotR appendices quite a few times, the only other stuff I’ve read is… Unfinished Tales and the poem & short story books that treat upon the likes of Farmer Giles and Tom Bombadil.

I was half-joking, TBC. Technically, the original song’s title was “Welcome Christmas,” and I wouldn’t exactly expect a band trying to be any kind of hip to perform it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_GwSN_tNN0

Do they have a song called “Boboo Boris?”

You’re quite welcome, mate. I’m just helping myself by helping you, haha.

I see what you’re saying about spamming, but if there’s ever a time to spam? Yeah, that would be now.

If it helps, here’s an online buddy of mine who started a new community 3 days ago:
https://piefed.social/c/newcommunities/p/1813767/comic-strip-edits

It already has 28 posts and 101 subscribers.

Remember to populate your new community with lots and lots of content. I.e., you can’t expect people to pitch in unless you make a notable effort to launch things off. Word to the wise…

Yeah, that’s what I’ve been saying for 2.5yrs now over at my own community. XD

https://piefed.social/c/eurographicnovels

That said, most of what I write are mini-articles that take time to put together. Sharing a pic (or quote) is generally much easier, as I do across other communities, and the PieFed scheduler is aces for helping with that.

Anyway, I’ve saved a lot of quotes in graphical format over the years. This weekend, I’ll begin scanning through my media collection and begin moving all those to a separate folder, then I’ll begin helping out by posting them here. I really do love a good quote, mate. 🙂

I’ll join. The Fediverse needs a quote community outside of .ml, so hopefully you can keep it going.

Note that you should also follow the advice in Dave’s comment, here:

https://piefed.social/c/asklemmy/p/1817118/dear-fediverse-why-is-my-community-not-visible-and-yes-it-s-public#post_replies

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I see it from PieFed.Social. I’d absolutely love it if we got more FV content here, such as NodeBB. :D

Really? What about it do you miss? (presuming)

Earlier, I noticed Dave’s top-voted comment to help get more eyes on the place:
https://piefed.social/c/asklemmy/p/1817118/dear-fediverse-why-is-my-community-not-visible-and-yes-it-s-public#post_replies

Not quite sure how that all works yet, but I guess I might need to do that for my own community, plus an upcoming one.

You think? With those things you mention, you can make a product that pushes the right buttons, hits the right notes, and be done with it, letting it sell itself on its own from that point forward.

Now compare that to relaunching a major social media platform and keeping it alive with investor money until it eventually and hopefully ‘makes it.’ Seems like a considerably different thing to me.

I’m reminded of the Arsenio Hall Show which ran from '89-94, did well for its time, but whose shelf life kind of naturally expired. They tried to bring it back in 2013, but cancelled it after a single season, because… nostalgia could only prop it up for so long. Or something like that.

Keeping in mind that I didn’t use Digg much back in the day, I don’t really understand the idea of re-launching a service that fell out of use in the first place.

Or if MySpace (etc) was to relaunch with modern features, could it expect to succeed out of nostalgia, or something…?