Yeah, there are only ~100 users on this local instance so the ~300 subscribers are federation-wide. I’ve been tempted to post a message on !cyberpunk@lemmy.ml telling them about this community since the are almost 900 subscribers there but no one posts anything.

So even though they don’t particularly like or trust the corporation, the fact that they’re employees of a major corporation is enough for you to say no? That’s an interesting distinction. So if they owned their own ship and were hired as mercs by the corporation to pick up some unknown artifact would you consider it cyberpunk?

This is all second-hand knowledge (I’m not involved with nor personally know anyone involved) but I also had an account on dataterm.digital so I at least saw part of it. One thing I saw was the admin made a post on the local community saying he would be de-federating from one of the NSFW instances because dataterm.digital was hosted in Germany and he wasn’t sure of the legality of the content under German laws. Seems like a perfectly fair thing to do in my opinion. But, for whatever reason, a bunch of people from totally unrelated instances started flooding that post with horrible content that he had to moderate away. I don’t know why someone unrelated to dataterm.digital or that NSFW instance would have any stake in the issue, but there were a bunch of toxic comments.

I don’t think this was the worst thing that happened to the instance, but I do believe it was the last straw. The admin was so irritated by the whole thing that he just outright deleted the entire dataterm.digital VM without any warning and is basically done with Lemmy now. I personally don’t blame him in any way, but I would’ve at least liked a heads-up that he was doing this. I only know about it because I found his mastodon post shortly after he deleted the VM.

The people behind dataterm.digital also run the mastodon instance corteximplant.com and a couple other fediverse applications like pixelfed and misskey, but I don’t think they’re coming back to Lemmy.

Totally agree. Texhnolyze isn’t as slow as Lain, but it is extremely depressing. I thought it was going to be about how sweet cybernetic limbs could be but instead it was more about the trauma of having limbs amputated. Definitely a good anime, but it wasn’t what I was expecting (or what I wanted it to be).

Is it a legitimately bad show? It’s hard for me to judge because I don’t like rom-coms in the first place. So while I wasn’t a fan of the light-hearted tone, I just assumed everything they were doing was accurately hitting what their target demographic wanted to see.

I will admit though, I stuck with it and watched the whole series. I liked the technology they would use, like having the phone built into their hand. So a video phone would appear between finger and thumb and they could hang up by just making a fist.

Also, there was an episode where they went to a black market to buy illegal software. There were so many instances of clever ideas that I wished they would expand on, rather than the love triangle.

I’m not disagreeing with you, this is simply me probing for more details.

Why do you think social media makes Lain more relevant? I thought Lain focused more on the wonder and magic of what The Internet could mean for humanity, rather than the social problems that can arise from actual internet usage. They definitely touch on someone portraying a different personality online compared to the real world (which is absolutely relevant regarding social media) but I thought that was more a function of Lain’s deteriorating mental state than a cautionary aspect of The Wired. Granted, it’s been a while since I’ve watched Lain, so I could be misremembering.

I enjoyed it. They did a good job setting up the world. Just expect some plot threads to not be resolved since it was cancelled before they could wrap anything up.

I like this person’s form of protest: https://mastodon.social/@docpop/110787585288447222

That’s fair, and I agree. But I still wonder what type of person subscribes to this Lemmy community. Are they deep cyberpunk nerds who are here for the philosophical explorations on humanity’s relationship with technology, or do they just like to see cyborg parts on scantily clad women? The r/cyberpunk community on reddit definitely preferred the latter but I suspect anyone who finds this community on Lemmy is probably the former.

Either way is fine, I’m not going to gatekeep our subscribers, but that’s why I wanted to clarify that this is more of a “what does it mean to be human” anime than a “check out these neon lights” anime.

I think the idea (stupid as it was) was to front-load all the “action heavy” episodes to air first to try and capture the audience. Then all the “boring” episodes could air once the audience was hooked. Except that doesn’t work at all with a show that has a coherent plot. The execs must’ve thought it was just a police-procedural with random cases and never bothered to actually watch the show to see if that was true.