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You’re over thinking it. The theme only needs to be inspired by LCARS, not 1:1 recreate the on screen experience.

So some secondary colors, some nostalgic font choices, and creative liberal use of rounded corners would be a good non-invasive first step.

While I have no experience theming for Lemmy, I’ve done theming for phpBB for some personal projects. With the staff’s blessing, I wouldn’t mind taking a stab at it.

I've not tried Adguard, but I was fond of and a user of Ghostery before the reveal that they were blocking ads on one hand, while also reporting to ad tech companies.

As for how to compare all three of them… that's hard to say. All blockers hit the major eye sores on popular sites like Reddit, Google, and Facebook. Day-to-day you're not going to notice a difference.

The complication becomes that Blocker 1 may block ads A, B, and C, while Blocker 2 blocks ads A, B, and D. One is not necessarily better than the other, but more that they have different scopes.

Then there's the fact that some sites refuse to load content if they detect you aren't loading the ads. It's not really the adblockers fault even if it's a consequence of using them.

Unfortunately, running multiple adblockers has a non-zero chance of causing unintentional conflicts where both blockers try to attack the same ad.

Which brings me back to my method of having my cake and eating it too. By using a VPN, a custom hosts file, and a browser extension, I have multiple non-conflicting layers that protect me better than any one solution.

A moment of silence for Camino and OmniWeb… excellent Mac browsers that couldn’t join us in the modern era.

Wait… wasn't Ghostery shifty because it was both blocking ads while also making it's money off ad tech companies?

I'm a fan of a multi-tiered approach.

For system wide, I update/replace my etc/hosts file with the one generated here. The advantage is that this blocks ads system wide—not just in Safari. They simply cannot load at all on your computer. It's free, but updates have to be preformed manually.

Next, VPNs often add an additional layer of protection. Apple offers one with iCloud subscriptions, but I'm also fond of Lockdown

And then finally for an actual Safari extension, I use 1Blocker, which I guess actually answers your question.

For what it's worth, I enjoy the Trek Central discord.

Perhaps it's a sign of the limitations of having simply Voyager vs an actual Starfleet presence. With just Voyager, they can simply and honestly forget with everything they have to juggle on their own.

Whereas if Starfleet was around, there would be constant contact (as opposed to incidental run-ins) and entire departments dedicated to long term relations.