Wonder if the toilet design might also play a part.
If you’re in a country with a siphonic toilet, where the water level is really high, you probably don’t want to sit down and start dipping into the toilet water, and if you’re in a country with squat toilets, you can’t really sit on the toilet to urinate either.
"The magazine from the federated server may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance." - why does this appear and how can I turn it off? I cannot log in to other servers to post
That is a Kbin warning letting you know that you're connecting to another server other than the one you're using, and that the community/magazine on the server you're using might be a little out of date. It then offers you a link to check out the server directly, should you wish to.
You cannot log into other servers, since the account is tied to kbin.social for the time being, and if you want an account elsewhere, you will have to register one there.
I do not believe that it is possible to remove thst warning just yet.
@startrek I just started following you so I haven't had a chance to read many of your posts. I'm curious about your thoughts on "Strange New Worlds." I think it's the best Trek since TNG with the best first season of any series in the franchise.
It's worth noting that this isn't a single account, but a whole board over on Lemmy (at startrek.website). That may be a lot of things to put on your feed.
Strange New Worlds is alright, in my opinion. It has its flaws, but it's also doing quite a few things right.
One thing I'm partial to what they're doing, is how they're looking at issues with established Federation policy, that isn't just the standard Prime Directive issue. The only problem is that since they're a prequel, it means that they're limited in what kind of changes might come up from those issues.
One example would probably be the Illyrians, who are explicitly stated to have used genetic modification to have genetically modified their colonists rather than rely on the standard environmentally-destructive array of terraforming technologies, or biodomes. In an attempt to appease and respect the Federation attitude/laws around genetic modification, they tried to undo all of their changes, becoming extinct when it went wrong and drove them to extinction.
Since only Earth and the Klingon Empire have been shown to have problems with genetic modification (the Klingon Empire used a modified version of Earth's anyway), and Earth's Augment program was panned as "going too far", is it right for Earth to impress the consequences of its own actions on the Federation, and through that, everyone else?
startrek.website is a partnership between /r/StarTrek and /r/DaystromInstitute from Reddit, they've both locked their subs over there for good. Follow @startrek for all your Trek needs. 🖖 :trek:
Not all of them, since that would be a lot of server load, especially for the more image-heavy content. Maybe only the big/official posts, but people would be cross-linking those anyway.
Especially since a new social media network also means that they would have to learn how to use it all over again. People are used to Reddit, whereas Lemmy doesn't have the creature comforts, like keyboard shortcuts, and RES that someone might be used to.
Naming it into a more generic sci-fi name, like scifi.website, might have made more sense, since it would open things up for other franchises, like star wars/stargate/doctor who to also be hosted.
It would be a bit like rec.arts.sf.* from back in the day.
They are. There's some formatting issues, but they are fairly compatible with each other, other than some minor problems with things like text formatting, but that's probably an issue of the interface, rather than Kbin.
There is also a currently active archive.org project trying to capture all of Reddit, and I would be extremely surprised if they weren't also capturing both /r/DaystromInstitute and /r/StarTrek, at the bare minimum.
The page works fine, I just meant "nothing" in the sense of there being no posts, and nothing seeming to show up if you try and search for it in the Lemmy search (but that could just be a problem of using it wrong).