I respect it more, but I still can't get into it. I find that the feeling they were going for - wild west in space - just doesn't gel at all with the story of a futuristic utopian Federation and (essentially) a milliary grade ship with professional personel.
There are episodes where it's one or the other, and not the combination of both, that work the best.
I think the TNG era managed to get away from this weird sense very well while still paying homage. But on ENT it shows how trying to follow in those footsteps can give weird results. All the criticism ENT has gotten is really the result of trying to make sense of TOS.
Ironically, VOY had the most opportunity to run with the wild west theme, and I guess they couldn't figure it out either. Maybe SNW has, from what I've heard.
I get what you're staying, but frankly your OP question sounds pretty silly considering what the issue is.
The idea is, everyone can run their communities as they like... Even with such stupid rules as no pictures in a lawn comm, or US politics only in a politics comm on a world instance. Kinda sad in such cases, but otherwise the mods and admins are there for mostly good reasons.
You can almost always find comms or instances more to your liking, or try and start your own.
I think I hate it mostly because 1) it needlessly ruins a good thing, 2) of the general implications of "we are changing something fundamental like a rectangle, and make it standard, and you can't do anything about it".
And also the general corporatisation of design. Everything has to be lifeless and smooth and just enough friendly and appealing to everyone. So what we get? A mix between a circle and rectangle. My artsy soul is crying.
So, it's dumb and pointless, it ruins a good thing, it offends me, I hate it, and yet I'm somehow supposed to accept it as the new standard? Fucking 1984 this is.
I do lol. I got used to it on my phone because they're so tiny and it's a taller screen than 16:9, so it doesn't cut into videos and such. But on a PC screen I wouldn't stand it.
I also can't stand the rounded squares buttons that are now "standard" in Android. I keep a lot of apps out of date just because the newer versions changed circles to that abomination. I even asked the dev of Infinity for Lemmy to bring the option for circle button, and they did! 😃
You could say I've been taking a break from Lemmy too. From being on basically all the time, last week I only check in once in a couple hours to check RSS of my comms, reports and maybe the homepage for the biggest news.
I don't see social networks as anything inherently bad, addictive or a waste of time. It may or may not be. There were times when I was a teen when I'd sit all day in front of a TV if I had nothing better to do. And when I did, I did something else. It's the same with everything. Unless you actually start sweating and shaking, it's not an addiction and you can just do other things whenever you want.
I once had a very unique camera stolen. I expected the thief won't know what the fuck it is so it'll show up on a classified nearby; so I asked the local photography community to keep an eye out. A couple weeks later I was notified that that kind of camera is for sale in the town over. I went to look as a potential buyer with cops following me, and got it back.
I definitely miss simple rectangle displays. Curved corners and notches annoy me to the point of giving me anxiety. For bezels, one can at least put the phone in a case.
I was thinking of getting one of these when they were very cheap. I really wanted FF OS and other alternatives to succeed or at least exist, because Android was just never very good and I foresaw how Google is just gonna abuse its monopoly and make life difficult for everyone.
But Mozilla was like "now it's not the right time to introduce a mobile OS" - wtf, when if not exactly at the time when markets were still forming? It was now or never, and Mozilla threw in the towel so quickly it almost feels like someone got a nice paycheck from Google or something.
And while I never got that phone at the end, it did look like it had some decent basis and ideas in it that could've developed into something cool. Alas.
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I respect it more, but I still can't get into it. I find that the feeling they were going for - wild west in space - just doesn't gel at all with the story of a futuristic utopian Federation and (essentially) a milliary grade ship with professional personel.
There are episodes where it's one or the other, and not the combination of both, that work the best.
I think the TNG era managed to get away from this weird sense very well while still paying homage. But on ENT it shows how trying to follow in those footsteps can give weird results. All the criticism ENT has gotten is really the result of trying to make sense of TOS.
Ironically, VOY had the most opportunity to run with the wild west theme, and I guess they couldn't figure it out either. Maybe SNW has, from what I've heard.