It's mostly Netflix that dumps it all at once.

HBO, Apple TV and Prime still usually do staggered releases.

It still transcended that.

What? There's tons of TV shows, many high budget, released in the last year

It sounds like the OP wants 'monster of the week' stuff

Network TV still does police and medical shows that have a 'monster/crime of the week' style, but it's rare now.

So you mostly like episodic formats.

Do you actually like serialised content? Most TV is now serialised, as opposed to being episodic like X-Files.

got is like a bad off brand xenia warrior princess…

It has nothing in common with Xena other than being in the fantasy genre.

You may not like GOT, but that doesn't make it awful.

That's mostly Disney content. Most series are 8-10 episodes long still, and there's more series made than there was in the 90s and 00s.

What TV shows do you like, OP?

I would argue this is more damaging than most things for places like Lemmy. The wrong people pick up the communities and just abandon them or completely mismanage them. Can't be helped though.

Federation has its downsides though, there's less cohesion across the board. A lemmy/kbin platform may have 20,000 users (an example) but most of them might end up with interacting on instances outside of the one they signed up on. Whereas everyone on Discuit, for instance, will be only interacting on Discuit. There's something to be said for how a userbase is spread, not just the amount of users. If Kbin wasn't federated and its own thing, its user trajectory and interaction could've been different - although having only recently arrived, I understand that features had stalled for a long time.

I think the long-term trend of federation is smaller instances simply shutting down due to lack of interest/money in maintaining it without any noticeable growth and a small bloc of highly used instances dominating, one main one, and probably some politically charged ones orbiting it. Yes, anyone if they're annoyed with a particular instance can just down their tools and migrate to another instance - but if you've got or run communities on that instance, it is a downside.

Although in Discuits case, yes, it is really, really basic - and that more than anything likely stopped it growing before anything else. There was also administrative problems and other issues that drained users. It hypothetically federating wouldn't help it at all. Their users would just stop using Discuit and use the larger communities all across Lemmy.