It’s just the dopamine kick of a joke made so often, it has circled from humour through routine and boredom into familiarity 🙂

Is nobody else going to do this? Okay, I’ll bite.

She would make an excellent Rani!

Sung to the tune of a certain Dead Kennedys song, as covered by Napalm Death.

I’d be disappointed if he didn’t have any headcanon to add, given he plopped the Fugitive Doctor in our laps without much hint of where she fits… but yeah, glad to hear he’s sharing that knowledge rather than leave it to other writers’ imaginations!

Jo Martin and Alice Krige? Yes, please!

Yeah, it’s definitely that. Love how the Timeless Child can be used to patch canon holes in retrospect (but probably not the ones it created) 😄

The Great Sellout to Meta.

Is this Great Sellout in the room with us right now? Because Meta did implement an open protocol into Threads, but it has been widely blocked by other ActivityPub instances. That is not a “sellout”.

Sounds like your principles will only lead you off social media, perhaps the internet entirely?

I’m not going to pretend I grasp the technological details of either Weird or the Leaf protocol, but the basic concept of superpowering the personal website as identity provider is very attractive — and the passion of your writing is infectious 🙂 I hope to someday reach a lightbulb moment with your work and just implement it on my own site.

local-first

web app

I’m confused, which is it?

I guess you have to take it for what it is. I see Matrix primarily as an IM network, and for that it works fine. I only use it for private communications with trusted friends, no random pedos can drop into our conversations.

In the past I’ve subscribed to a couple of interest-based rooms (music and movie genres), but other than that I don’t find Matrix’ forum or social features very compelling. Too much potential for anonymous randos lulz bombing any public room for my taste.

Well, Mastodon and Lemmy both use ActivityPub, and they’re not entirely compatible. On the other hand, the diaspora*, Ostatus and Zot protocols are more or less compatible with ActivityPub, and are considered parts of the Fediverse.

Edit: My bad, according to this diagram it’s much more fragmented than I understood it!

Source

Marketing, sure, but the onboarding from Instagram was a massive factor for Threads growth.

another for matrix I forget

If you or anybody else reading should remember the project, I’d be interested in hearing more.

Edit: If it’s this one you’re forgiven for not committing the name to memory…

Oh yes, that makes sense. I hope I went the opposite way with my post here 🙂

LOL, thanks for the business advice 🙂

I know you’re not keen on this kind of content, but I thought it was worth spreading a bit of fan nerdery across the Who Lemmy communities that I’m aware of. It might at least spread the word about this one to the rest of the fans viewers on here, maybe generate enough traffic that you’ll have to revive the episode retrospectives 😄

Some day, some day I’m going to try and get started on the eighth Doctor books. If for nothing else then to get more background for Faction Paradox which is honestly one of the crazier hard left turns I’ve heard of… If that ever makes it into the main (or its own) TV show I’ll be very curious to follow!

But even though I’m only aware of some of the eighth Doctor’s adventures, ie. audios, the show owes the character as well as Paul McGann (and a slew of writers) for tiding the fans over through the wilderness years.

As for Moffat, I don’t disagree with you about the quality of his writing, at least during the time when he was running two of the BBC’s most prominent shows. I do think Capaldi’s last season was solid, and a bit of a fresh breath after much too much Clara Oswald, but to each his own.

I’m one of the few who will defend the Jodie Whittaker years, though I don’t hold any hope to convert you on them. They’re not bad on average but there are real stinkers as well as a handful of very good episodes — and quite a few “well, that was certainly …a Doctor Who episode?” ones. But it didn’t have the flair that RTD and Moffat brought to their runs.

In all honesty, I think “the Doctor lies” is used too often as a catch-all for ambiguity in the show. It’s River’s line throughout her story, but who tells her first, in “Let’s kill Hitler”? The Doctor 😆 So is that the ultimate lie, or can we as viewers pick and choose when we want his statements to be lies?

I don’t think there is a word of a lie about his dadhood here. He isn’t a father* yet, but he has raised children (and probably Susan too?) 🙂

* Edit: “biological father”

That Eighth Doctor book reference is a nice, deep cut from the extended universe! I tend to take the books, comics and audios as well-produced fan fiction, or I wouldn’t be able to post such confident continuity fixes as the above 😆 I do think Moffat had to acknowledge Big Finish’s massive effort of establishing 8 while the TV show was off the air. That is too wild to just shrug off!

I won’t argue against your head canon about the eighth and Shalka Doctors, after all we’re both (all!) making subjective rationalisations from a frankly bonkers continuity. Plus we don’t seem so far apart on Shalka.

Jenny, though? She is explicitly said to be a partial clone of the Doctor, probably with some local parts thrown in, so might actually be part human on her “mother’s” side… IMO she’s his daughter in episode title only, like the TARDIS/Idris was “the Doctor’s wife” 🙂

Side note: You haven’t followed the show since the end of series 10!? I know Capaldi’s early characterisation was a bit bumpy, but you’re missing out on some terrific Missy episodes. Plus, 12 mellows out after Clara, and his last series has one of my favourite companion pairings.

If I could CW this it would be for “Wall of text”. Sorry about the long read!