If you’re not familiar with how Lemmy/the Fediverse works, basically everything you read at StarTrek.website is hosted by us, even if the content originated elsewhere. That means we are responsible for everything here and we have to decide if we are comfortable boosting content from other instances.
If you’re curious, the final straw here was learning that db0 explicitly allows hosting discussions about hurting people, which needless to say goes against our instance values and we simply don’t have the manpower to moderate that volume of content incoming from their server to a degree that we feel meets our quality standards, which left defederating as the only viable option.
In keeping in line with past trends we’re announcing this because is is a larger instance and don’t want to leave any of the crew confused as to why something may be missing.
EDIT: Just to be crystal clear, this change ONLY affects users on THIS instance, if your account is on a federated instance then it doesn’t apply to you and your experience will remain unchanged.
EDIT 2: Locking this because it’s getting downvote brigaded by accounts from other instances which is preventing local accounts from seeing it. Local users feel free to DM me or another admin if you have questions.
Sorry we have a prime directive of sorts, and I can’t give out ammunition that could be used to create drama for users on another instance. If you have an issue with them, take it up with them but please don’t try to involve us.
Isn’t that exactly what you’re doing? Generating drama?
No proof or reasoning, while saying “Nah don’t look at me I’m not involved” while doing a thing thats creating drama?
I have to assume this is related to the tesseract debacle, and I have to assume that this sort of drama generation - which is what this post is - will continue from startrek.website now.
I guess I’ll go elsewhere for my trek themed lurking.
No absolutely not, this will be the only post on the topic and just to be clear anyone caught linking to other instances or gossiping or spreading drama will be banned permanently without hesitation.
Removed by mod
I don’t. I have an issue with you because you are making these claims. You’re asking me to go to the people you’re accusing and asking them to prove a negative, if it is false. Something that you know full well is utterly impossible and does not hold up in any court, law or public opinion.
I am going to ask this for the last time.
Are you willing to provide any evidence at all to back up your claims?
If you are not willing to prove your accusations then your accusations are without merit. It also will have demonstrated that Startrek.website is engaging in hostile administration and weaponizing defederation for unknown reasons. Which is all that any other instance would need to defederate from you.
This is your last chance of handling this in a professional manner.
I’m sorry that you have an issue but I’ve said no to you twice now, I ask that you please respect it.
Understood. This is the full choice of this instance with no hesitation or wavering. I respect that you have the right to make this decision for your instance. Unfortunately, I also respect this.
As you have forged the first link, I will forge the second. Goodbye.