Oh! That is very good. Sounds like a nice balance of "ability to remove yourself" and "ability for others to find their comments" too.
It's frustrating for me as well. I'd sometimes like to go back and look at a conversation I had once before - so I don't have to manually unearth whatever point or evidence I had in that post - only to find I'm actually unable to.
What really frustrates me is that if a post is removed or - it seems like - the parent of comment of a conversational thread, I become unable to view any discussion in that post's comments or conversational thread. I get that people might want to remove their own posts, and that's just fine - but one person removing my ability to view anything else in the comments doesn't seem great.
Besides this one, the Discord server of a more military-focused Worldbuilding community that spun off a Subreddit a while back, and a couple fiction writing communities which guess kinda count?
Combination of:
- People whose only exposure is clips from Portal and think he's just a goof who rants about combustible lemons, not a deeply disturbed person who subjected people to horrific experimentation.
- People who can't distinguish between other fans saying "I like this person as an interesting, well-portrayed, flawed character" and "I like this person directly as an individual".
I do kind of thing a lot of these are more predicated on the specific setting or polity within the setting than issues with the intrinsic technology itself. For instance, the idea that they would be externally-interfacing and so vulnerable to cyberattack.
But also, yeah: Cybernetics are also one of those sci-fi techs which comes with a lot of "hidden" technologies "built in" (for instance, the ability to perform reliable low-risk surgeries, or creating materials which are reliably not rejected by body tissue). Some of these, to me, are actually kind of feasible (minimally invasive surgery today is practically a miracle, compared to how it was even 20 or 30 years ago).
And matte paintings. Never forget the legendary artists who turned paintings into scenery, or the camera workers who managed to blend in the actors to them.
- That first legendary pan-down to Tattooine, which the Tantive IV and Star Destroyer then fly past? Matte painting.
- The sterile hangars and seemingly-bottomless pits of the Death Star? Matte painting.
- The busy Rebel hangar on Yavin IV? Also a matte painting. I seem to remember reading that some of the hangar floor markings - besides making it look like an actual hangar - served to help align the matte with the set shots and coordinate extras so they wouldn't accidentally walk out of the filmed segment and behind a matte portion.
Generative AI was vaguely funny when it created trippy, acid hallucination images and incoherent druggy ramblings of text. I know an author who fed their own content into an early LLM (small language model?) and the bizarre, yet undeniably "his" stuff it produced was worth a laugh. I wouldn't say I "liked" it, but it was kind of amusingly quirky.
What was depressing is how quickly people began to claim AI content was "theirs". As someone who ran a fiction-creating community, people were so eager to latch on to what AI would spit out that they began to create convoluted things for the early models to "depict".
Pure black long-haired? Absolutely gorgeous. I need to squeeze her!
Whatever it is, I'm inclined to like the versions where FTL is a teensy bit dangerous. Not necessarily 40k's "FTL is actual hell and frequently fails in terrible ways", but more... it's risky. It's a mundane risk, maybe. But still, there's that little bit of risk in the background and it needs to be approached carefully...
Like, Babylon 5's hyperspace is an actual place you make trips into, but it's also highly nonlinear, and so it is entirely possible to get lost or stuck if your ship malfunctions. Also, there are living things in there which may not be friendly.
Even Star Wars' Hyperdrives can be dangerous. It doesn't get played up in the stories much, but a malfunctioning or improperly programmed hyperdrive can strand you in deep space, subject you to severe time dilation, or just splat you against a realspace object.
Admittedly the "don't know what's on the other side" bit is a little iffy. Sure, they've got that little wheeled robot they use a couple of times, but after a while you'd think they'd do something as simple as "stick a camera on a pole through the gate first."
The setup is just perfect too. "All hands - brace for turbulence."
And you're thinking, No. No way he's going to do that.
AND THEN HE DOES.
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Yes, for one particular reason: I've always favored longer, slower posting - structured responses to earlier posts with multiple paragraphs to propose a point, explain, and support it. Including the ability to quote / link back to multiple different posts in a thread if needed. The... for lack of a better way to put it, "Reddit-esque" style of branched comments to a post (which includes Lemmy) is nice because it allows multiple parallel discussions rather than one dominating one, but it also seems to discourage longer, more in-depth responses. It also means that interesting ongoing discussions which I'd love to get into can get buried down later in the comments.
Like OP, I recognize that there's nothing actually stopping me from doing this on Lemmy. There's chat and sort-by-new, and of course I can link as many other comments as I want. But the overwhelming trend is towards shorter, snappier answers before you move on to the next comment chain or post; discussions rarely last more than a few hours, whereas forum threads used to be able to keep them going for days.