There is !reddead@lemmy.world, but it’s pretty quiet. You could try posting there to get some of that content going. It’s a bit of a vicious cycle, though - the lack of content drives people away, leading to less content.

I will say that even in smaller communities I find that people are quite helpful here with questions, which is great.

It does seem like the post reddit boom of interaction and growth has waned, thought, and many of the communities that were starting to grow are now much quieter than they were a few weeks ago. I think that the lemmy.world downtime for so long really drove people away, which is a shame.

1. Wake up
2. Fall out of bed
3. Drag a comb across my head
4. Find my way downstairs
5. Drink a cup
6. Look up and notice I am late
7. Find my coat
8. Grab my hat
9. Make the bus in seconds flat

Reminds me of the Edith Macefield house, in Ballard (Seattle, WA).

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If you’re ever in Ballard, I highly recommend the excellent cocktail bar Hazelwood, which pays tribute to her with a namesake cocktail (the Edith Macefield).

A farmer coughs in your face, and then you slowly get sick and eventually die.

I agree that these changes have all been incredibly stupid and devalue one of the few remaining producers of quality TV (HBO), but I think that this is missing the point. The key is this:

Notably, the loss in subscribers didn’t seem to affect streaming revenue. It grew to $2.73 billion this quarter, marking a 13 percent increase.

In other words, fill up the service with cheap / easy to produce reality crap and hike up prices over time. Revenue goes up and costs go way down. People drift away but you keep growing the bottom line, at least for now. The shareholders rejoice and the consumers lose.

Also: really funny, in the darkest humor sort of way.

This is one of a handful of shows where I’ve re-watched the whole series just to get to watch the finale again in the context of the full arc of the show.

Yeah, fair enough. But one of the genius bits of the show is that they often actually failed or got beaten out by others. It’s sort of an illustration of how at some points in progress the ideas are just in the zeitgeist, and multiple people may have them at the same time. Being brilliant may not be enough - you may need to have luck, or power, or wealth to win out.

The NYT article on the last episode summed it up beautifully:

But above all, “Halt and Catch Fire” was about failure. Which was part of what made the show a triumph.

In the Silicon Valley whose emergence the show chronicles, “fail fast, fail often” has become a glib entrepreneurial mantra. “Halt and Catch Fire” was more interested in failure as a condition of human growth. In its eyes, failure — chafing against limits — is painful and necessary.

Anyway, the show was often marketed based on it’s techno-historical setting and storylines, which honestly was one of the reasons that I avoided it for a while. But like most great dramas, it’s worth watching for the characters and relationships even more than for any plot points!