Bloodbeech Forest
You seem to know this person so maybe you won’t be surprised by their posting history, but for anyone else, I recommend checking it out to get an idea of what to expect from that instance and some context to these discussions.
The fact that you even hesitate to defederate from them is reason enough for me to abandon this ship before it turns into an intellectual dark web hub.
https://slrpnk.net may be a reasonable alternative for some of us who are closer to the intersection of nature, science, sustainability, and decentralisation of power and wealth.
It’s “different from”.
“Similar to”; “different from”; “less/greater than”. “Different than” doesn’t make sense.
I wasn’t implying they got access to unpublished research. I just mean that when they construct such a vivid world with narrative and highly detailed recreations, much of it is inevitably artistic interpretation based on limited evidence. It would be helpful if they had narrated more on what parts of a presented depiction are based on actual findings so that people don’t walk away with misconceptions about what we know vs what might have been.
But instead they took a very immersive approach. Which is fine, they can do that. I personally would just have liked some scientific commentary while watching.
It’s reflected in the recent documentary Prehistoric Planet (I hope I got the name right). It’s a good series, though I feel like they could have been a bit more transparent about how much is creative liberty vs based on solid evidence (but to be fair they usually have a short segment afterwards with a bit of that).