Shit like this is why Lemmy is garbage and why you all need to take better care in vetting who gets to participate in your websites. It should not have been possible for Reddit powermods to infiltrate and take over Lemmy in the first place.
I am sorry you are bearing the brunt of abuse on this platform too. Lemmy clearly doesn’t hold up to its promise.
You don’t seem to understand what Lemmy actually is. Literally anyone can create a website. That is Lemmys promise so yeah. Holds up to it pretty well. They also didn’t “take over lemmy”. They have one site.
Nah, I do, and Lemmy’s promise was to serve as a meaningful alternative to Reddit where powermodding like what you experienced wouldn’t happen, and it failed miserably. You’re also not the only person to see how terrible Lemmy has turned out to be or who has suffered because of it. It’s not just your former instance crap like this has happened on, you see.
I hope TenForward turns out to be a better place and that you have a better experience.
Lemmy’s promise was to serve as a meaningful alternative to Reddit where powermodding like what you experienced wouldn’t happen,
Eh. Disagree. I saw Lemmy’s promise as being an alternative to Reddit where central corruption wouldn’t drag the community down. There is no Huffman to screw everything up. There are more distributed things.
Also, I think this situation explicitly counters the narrative where powermodding happens, because Stamets made a new community on a different server and is thriving.
Switched from my star trek website account to this one just in case.
Dude, you have way more patience than I would have had in your shoes, it’s genuinely impressive. If they want to be dicks, they can go do so on their own.
And I am thankful you made the push for a better star trek community. So question: Is there blackjack and hookers here?
So much drama over star trek memes. Some people really need to feel like they are the king of their made up little internet castle. In case I wasn’t clear, I’m not saying that about you.
I used to moderate a decently sized subreddit. I genuinely wanted to make the community a better place. But there was no escaping the drama. People take this internet shit way too seriously sometimes.
Also if you are an alcoholic and trying to get sober, this stuff is so so so not worth taking a drink over. Though I realize that was likely more a joke than anything.
The way I see it, Tuvok and Neelix died in an accident, and a separate life emerged from it. The crew just couldn’t accept their deaths so they killed Tuvix to get them back.
I don’t see it as a logical decision but an emotional one. How Tuvix came to exist doesn’t matter, he was still a person, and they basically murdered him to get their friends back. He wouldn’t be the first living thing that wasn’t “meant” to exist.
Either way it’s a very difficult moral question and probably the best episode in Voyager as far as emotional impact.
Ah, the HotJo Travel Mug. My favorite tea mug. I had it for years before realizing it was similar (not quite the same) as the ones on DS9. That is a new color they offer. I used to have a black one, but I broke it and dropped it and they don’t make those anymore. Then, for a while, they only made white ones. Finally, last year, they made a handful of other colors. I asked and received one of that color by my wife at Christmas. Enjoy yours!
It is slightly different, but that is because the producers contracted HighWave, the makers of HotJo, for a custom version. Unfortunately, it’s the closest we can get at the moment. I keep hoping for a special run, maybe for an anniversary. Last year would have been the 30 though.
The main Kbin instance, kbin.social. I don’t think it warrants a block just yet, but it could become a real problem if the spam in its communities doesn’t get under control (i.e. - new mods get added to handle it, for starters). Some communities have been getting hit by spam posters for weeks without end.
There’s just one guy running the whole thing. It sucks because it’s a good place with good people and the owner is a nice guy, but the lack of administration & communication is killing it.
This is both the blessing and curse of truly decentralised and people run technology. The “business case” for it is extremely minimal, so people get bored and just start drifting away.
It’s not malicious, it’s just how people are.
Trying to find the few diamonds in the rough to keep everything going and put in the effort is like trying to win the lottery.
Even with my home lab services I use constantly, it’s a chore to keep them updated and bug* free.
Check out startrek.website. I don’t know much about the fediverse, but if you’re a Star Trek fan, it’s a decent community. Bit quiet in between new seasons.
Tbh I couldn’t stand it, felt to misogynistic as well as the episode about the trans child and they handled that horribly, felt to much like a start trek for incels.
I feel like this is a huge problem with Lemmy. All that talk about federation and decentralization and every guide out there for getting started is just like “just register with lemmy.world and don’t worry about it”. THE WHOLE FREAKING POINT is to avoid one single instance having an outsized influence on the network as a whole.
But choosing an instance to sign up with is such a huge hassle and also kind of a crapshoot. Even if you pick one that seems like a good place to be, it’s highly likely the admins will either burn out quickly or just not do their job, and suddenly you’re defederated because your instance is full of CSAM. Or they’re actually just pieces of shit to begin with.
Fortunately, it seems like I found a decent instance for now. Lemmy.zip has more than one admin, so the burden isn’t all on one person, and the main person running it seems to be just a real chill dude. I really hope it lasts.
For quite a while there, Lemmy.world was the only one that handled the reddit apicolypse rush and stayed up reliably. So it became the defacto funnel point to the Fediverse.
Lemmygrad and Lemmy.ml were tankie cesspits, Beehaw were too busy sniffing their own farts yo approve registrations, Lemmy.ca gave the impression they were a Canadians-only, eh instance and a pile of others were yet to come on line or be stable. So thats where we are.
There’ll be another migration wave and may be there will be more diversification in this one.
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