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Am I being deprived of Stamets' memes because of some thin-skinned power-tripping douche mod?
Time for a new instance. Any recommendations for a stable instance that federates with everyone (except for the worst, of course)?
Edit: If anyone is confused, I meant to reply to this comment that links to Stamets' recent rundown on the whole kerfuffle.
Edit 2: I just learned something I'd like to share with anyone else that needs to know. If a user (Stamets, for example) is banned on your instance (startrek.website, for example) even here, a community on lemmy.world, you can't see his posts. Not only that, but if he comments you can't see any replies to his comment. There are a lot of comments in this thread startrek.website users can't see.
If you don't want overzealous admins curating your experience on other instances, you might want to find a new instance.
Sh.itjust.works has been excellent for me since joining. Any outages we have had have been resolved quickly and I have yet to see any spam.
I just jumped over to world because of all this. That makes my third instance in less than a year after leaving kbin.social for startrek land a few months ago. Lemmy is a little exhausting.
But at least that's an option. There is no non-spez instance of reddit, non-musk instance of twitter, or non-zuck instance of meta-stuff to jump to.
I took both of the other respondents suggestions. It only took a few minutes to get approved at both and now I can see Car Talk With Martok again.
I didn't even know that the admin of my instance banning someone would prevent me from seeing posts made in another instance.
Same, I didn't know until I saw this comment
And that is why I made that enormous post.
If he wanted to just privately throw a fit about me, fine. He reports me to unrelated admins and complains about perfectly fine toots? Whatever. I can eat that. What infuriated me was him going "I don't like you so I am going to deny everyone on my platform seeing you."
Frankly it's just pathetic piss baby behavior. I'm sorry that his shittiness is having to contribute to you jumping around instances. Genuinely.
Hey man, not your fault. Petty little people who enjoy being tyrants over small, meaningless fiefdoms is an unfortunate theme of my life recently.
I'm just here for the memes and appreciate your efforts.
Hopefully other users on startrek.website figure it out. I assumed I would see every post and comment posted on tenforward unless it was removed by lemmy.world admins or tenforward mods.
It's a bit annoying that an admin can curate my experience on other instances. But now I know to be on the lookout for it.
If the admins ever made a move over there to restrict more mods/posters of this community then honestly we would probably just alter the name of the community or sidebar or something so that the community itself would also be informing on what happened. I'm just not about to do it for my ass alone. Not nearly that egotistical lol
Yeah instance bans are heavy and you need to be able to back it up with something. Not just "He was mean to me! Wahhh!"
Honestly I still kinda feel like a dick even making comments like that about the admins over there. I really don't want to cause shit and have all this happen. I just wanted to post memes to Risa and have everyone be chill and happy. Would have been more than fine to continue with that blissful existence. Do I mind modding? No. Do I want to? No. But now I've seen what it's like when people don't care and I don't want to leave communities I care about to that kind of mindset. So I'll stay around for now. Although the mods we have here are all top tier and great people.
Yeah, if someone wants to remove posts/comments on their community, even for petty reasons, whatever, it's your community. If we don't like it, we can move.
But an admin saying no one on their instance can see an instance/community/user should be reserved for extreme cases, like csam or nazi shit. Hurt feelings or contentious disagreements, even if you really think the other person is being a dick, isn't enough to justify that.
Well, you can't see me at all but I'd obviously recommend lemmy.world personally although lemmy.dbzer0.com is a close second. I've heard mixed things about lemm.ee's administration. sh.itjust.works is pretty good for the most part. I've got some personal experience with a couple of admins who are really kind people who work way too hard.
I can now.
Eyyyyyyyyy! Nice to see you again buddy <3
Hell yeah brother
Come sail the high seas, matey
Considering how much Paramount+ is charging- $11.99/mo for no ads- when they have a fraction of the content of, for example, Peacock, which costs the same... I don't blame anyone for pirating Star Trek shows at this point.
And, of course, on top of that, Star Trek is spread across multiple streaming services and you would have to subscribe to them all and spend a ton of money if you wanted to watch it all.
Most Star Trek is on Paramount+. But if you want to watch Prodigy? You need Netflix. Want to watch the TOS and TNG movies? You need Max. But hey, you can watch JJ "Trek" on Paramount+ instead of First Contact or Wrath of Khan. If you really want to.
The admins and mods of that instance are 100% going to prison or getting heavily fined. Stay away or at least access it via Tor.
The admins and mods of that instance are 100% going to prison or getting heavily fined.
And why would that be?
Illegal activity (not you, the piracy instance)
Oh no I know you didn't mean me, no worries. I was just curious. I've heard this said but I've also heard this said for months. Things going well so far.
What I predict is that it will slowly grow and then at some point it will get shutdown. It might be 6 months or it might be 6 years. Its hard to say.
r/piracy still survives to this day, so I very very highly doubt that. The police don't care about people consuming pirated media or discussing it, they want to catch the people making the cracks
Reddit has a dedicated legal team. Do you? Its just a matter of time before it gets shutdown.
I think it would be very difficult to shut down a federated community and probably not worth it.
Even though these media companies do prosecute pirates on occasion, I have believe for a long time that they actually don't have the problem with piracy their PR teams make it sound like they have.
After all, piracy drives up publicity for a show with people beyond pirates because the pirates will watch the show and, theoretically, talk about why they like it on places like Reddit or Lemmy. Which would result in increased revenue for them.
The pirates were not going to buy anyway and everyone else is going to be encouraged by the pirates talking up the show. And the companies must know that, which is why Lemmy piracy instances will be fine and why the only pirates they usually prosecute are the ones serving a huge number of files.
If a user (Stamets, for example) is banned on your instance (startrek.website, for example) even here, a community on lemmy.world, you can’t see his posts. Not only that, but if he comments you can’t see any replies to his comment. There are a lot of comments in this thread startrek.website users can’t see.
Jeez, that is...wow. A shitty mod can really wreck content visibility on the 'verse if they're feeling particularly shitty.
Along with what Stamets already said, and I hope he doesn't mind if he speaks on his behalf, he will be rather occupied for the foreseeable future- at least in the short term- and will be posting fewer memes during that time. But eventually, he'll be back to his usual excellent post frequency and hopefully the rest of us mods can do what we can to fill the hole in his absence. And we'll sure miss him while he's busy!
Let me know if you want me to delete this, Stamets. I thought letting people know they won't see as much of you as usual for a while would be okay, so I hope you'll be okay with me revealing that without giving any personal details. Especially since we all love you and your posts and I don't want people thinking what OP is thinking and getting concerned.
(To clarify, nothing dire is happening with Stamets, he'll just be occupied with things other than Lemmy.)
Oh nah, you're fine. No need to worry about that. Also that really did sound dire until that last line lol
I'm moving. That's all <3
Cool, I didn't want to say why you were going to be occupied just in case you didn't want that detail out. And if I didn't say this to you before, good luck with the move and we'll see you soon!
No worries. I appreciate the discretion, my friend. And I'll need it! Spending the week (starting Tuesday) with my homie and future roomie so we will see how it goes.
Any instance that is over a year old and medium sized should be fine.
My instance is Lemmy.zip but there are many more.
lemdro.id is always happy to host :)