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3 yr. ago

A chimpanzee and two trainees in a trench coat

Quark's startrek.website

7mo ago

"Santa, when the Claus fell"
SysAdmin @startrek.website 7mo ago

7mo ago

Update: this is completed. All hear this, all hear this: StarTrek.website users will have issues with images for a few days while we migrate pict-rs to S3 storage.

Uh, everything’s under control. Situation normal, everything’s perfectly all right now. We’re fine… We’re all fine here now. Thank you.

How are you?

7mo ago

Update: this is completed. All hear this, all hear this: StarTrek.website users will have issues with images for a few days while we migrate pict-rs to S3 storage.

SysAdmin @startrek.website 7mo ago

If we go "by the book" like Lieutenant Saavik, hours could seem like days.

But seriously it will take days.

8mo ago

It's the only logical future, captain.

SysAdmin @startrek.website 8mo ago

In case anyone else is as confused as I was: yes, we are defederated from Hexbear.net. This image is simply hosted there.

9mo ago

Permanently Deleted

SysAdmin @startrek.website 9mo ago

What you call "fragmentation" is perhaps better described as "multiple moderation philosophies applied to the same topic" and is actually a fundamental aspect of the ActivityPub protocol, which was designed above all else to create platforms that resist centralization.

I'm not saying you're wrong to dislike it, but it is definitionally impossible to have both decentralization and centralization at the same time.

10mo ago

Lemmy community feedback: Should we fetch and combine comments from cross-posts on the post screen? · Issue #3415 · LemmyNet/lemmy-ui

SysAdmin @startrek.website 10mo ago

Allowing Lemmygrad to have it's own "books" community looks like a feature to me, not a problem. The terminally online tend to overpower any other conversation. IMO, we should work to preserve a diversity of perspectives. If all discussions are forced to be centralized we've just recreated Reddit with extra steps.

10mo ago

Lemmy community feedback: Should we fetch and combine comments from cross-posts on the post screen? · Issue #3415 · LemmyNet/lemmy-ui

SysAdmin @startrek.website 10mo ago

Allowing /c/anti_thing to direct all of their users to posts in /c/thing is a bad idea.

Personally I have never viewed the "separation problem" as a problem, but the single largest benefit of federation/decentralization.

10mo ago

Lemmy community feedback: Should we fetch and combine comments from cross-posts on the post screen? · Issue #3415 · LemmyNet/lemmy-ui

SysAdmin @startrek.website 10mo ago

Hi, one of startrek.website's admins here:

If I'm understanding this "feature" correctly, it feels antithetical to what I view as a fundamental aspect of the fediverse, which is diversity of moderation via decentralization. We came to the fediverse with the explicit purpose of escaping the tyranny of the majority that Reddit forces upon mod teams. This feels like a large step on the path to remaking reddit "with extra steps" and would probably be a deal breaker (for me personally at least).

I think a better way to implement a similar feature, is to give mods an ability to "boost" posts into their communities (with consent from the other mod team to prevent brigading). That maintains the separation while still allowing mods to make exceptions and consolidate comment threads where they deem appropriate.

1y ago

July 12: Canvas 2025

SysAdmin @startrek.website 1y ago

You know, if Spock were here, he'd say that you were an irrational, illogical human being by taking on a mission like this.

...Sounds like fun!

1y ago

What to expect with an account on StarTrek.website

SysAdmin @startrek.website 1y ago

Let's just say there's a reason we moved to the place where defederation is an option...

1y ago

What to expect with an account on StarTrek.website

SysAdmin @startrek.website 1y ago

After all, any instance can pickup some of those and isn’t representative of the instance as a whole.

I think I speak for the whole admin team that we actually do hold instance owners responsible for the communities they host, the same way we hold Reddit (the company) responsible for the communities they choose to host. That said, we made the decision that (for now) the best practice for handling large general purpose instances like .world or .ml is to take a scalpel approach until such a time comes that the Threadiverse is more resilient.

While ostensibly a "general purpose" instance, users on Hexbear had a tendency to come to our hosted communities and aggressively push propaganda, unfairly burdening our mods, so it was a much easier decision to de-federate. We actually did announce that one because of their size.