Ugh, enough with the James Kirk already. This show has such a nerd hard-on, they're contradicting the original series just to crowbar very specific pet TOS elements in.
In "The menagerie", pt 1, Kirk explicitly states he only met Pike the once when he was made Fleet Captain.
In "Arena", Kirk first meets "a creature apparently called a Gorn". He has no idea what they are, nor does Spock, McCoy, Chapel or anybody else who (according to SNW) met them before bother to give him advice.
Not that it matters, it's clearly a completely different species from the alligator Xenomorphs in the current show.
Twice already they've concocted absurd time paradoxes so that Kirk could become vErY iMpOrTaNt to SNW crew without breaking canon, but by now they don't seem to care anymore.
I'm at a point where I'm watching current Star trek once only for the occasional, non-TOS related character moments, and then never again. I could live with the Disco Klingons, but this is utter bullshit.
Same thing happened to me. If I block someone on Mastodon or another Fediverse microblogging instance, they're blocked. Because that part of the Fediverse was built by people who had been harassed and doxxed off other platforms.
Here? Blocking just means you don't see the troll, but they can continue to inflict all kinds of havoc on your post scores. Ironically, "karma" isn't a thing on Lemmy like it is on Reddit, but votes are still used to rank your posts.
I guess there are a hundred great folk on here for every preteen edgelord, but that kind of nonsense really spoils the fun of this platform. Sorry to see you get downvoted for a perfectly reasonable post.
I'm not a developer either, but I would say PHP is the bare minimum if you want a dynamic site. You're not going to go from scratch to anything presentable without putting time and some coding into it.
Don't take this as discouragement, just a bit of realism going into this project.
I use markdown for pretty much everything, and I agree with the overall notion of this rundown, but —
Seeing weird characters when you copy-paste from AI? That’s because ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, and others use Markdown to format their responses.
Yeah, maybe that's not the gotcha the author thought it would be.
Markdown — so stupid simple even stochastic parrots can figure it out is a slogan that will age like milk.
Most of their operations are now running with money as the motivation
Let's be real, that was always their end goal. They were never "open" except in name. Their free services were only to a) build a user base, and b) use it as unpaid beta testers.
Yeah, as I said earlier it wasn't completely clear to me if this was only a question about push notifications or just all-round play services replacement. That is why I also mentioned SunUp which uses UnifiedPush.
Ugh, enough with the James Kirk already. This show has such a nerd hard-on, they're contradicting the original series just to crowbar very specific pet TOS elements in.
Not that it matters, it's clearly a completely different species from the alligator Xenomorphs in the current show.
Twice already they've concocted absurd time paradoxes so that Kirk could become vErY iMpOrTaNt to SNW crew without breaking canon, but by now they don't seem to care anymore.
I'm at a point where I'm watching current Star trek once only for the occasional, non-TOS related character moments, and then never again. I could live with the Disco Klingons, but this is utter bullshit.