This instance has defederated from hexbear.net for violating our rules against propaganda as outlined in our Terms of Service. If you are unfamiliar, federation means two servers sync and host each other’s content. Defederation stops us from syncing their content to our server.
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What took so long?
Defederation is the nuclear option. Until now we had removed any communities we weren’t comfortable hosting, and treated users on a case-by-case basis based on how they behaved in our communities, which worked for a while but became untenable.
When we started this project the admin team felt that welcoming outsiders into our (wholesome, sane) Star Trek communities was the net-positive action. But as I said it became too much to handle so we unfortunately had to cut the cord.
For anyone on a different server, you can always personally defederated from a server under Settings in the Block tab at the very bottom. I eventually ended up being defederated from hexbear.net and lemmygrad.ml.
Yes, I strongly encourage people to curate their own experience.
Oh thank goodness. I like this instance a lot but the hexbear spam was annoying.
what spam?
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based sysadmin
Thank you, the comments were getting pretty rough the last couple days.
too little too late, but they needed to be a little less locutus and a little more jean-luc.
they are like very online. or something. I can’t tell and I don’t wanna know. good riddance.
Thank you for your service.
+1 for using Bookstack.
We use that at work for some internal documentation. Love it.
What?
The link to their Terms of Service in the post is running on an open-source wiki software called “Bookstack”.
Oh, thanks for explaining!
I’ve heard of stray comments on Lemmy, was 100% sure this was one of those.
I trust you’ll defed from .world too right?
I trust you’ll defed from
.world.ml too right?FTFY. Your instance is just hexbear/lemmygrad lite
Not propaganda when mods agree with it, duh. I look forward to people cheering this defederation crying “censorship” when they post an unhinged rant on an ml instance and get moderated.
Seriously! When I browse “all” the timeline is absolutely choked with insipid liberal political propaganda coming from .world.
It’s not propaganda when liberalism
Good move.
I love when bigoted instances make themselves known so openly. Sucks you people never learned any values presented in Star Trek.
Ew look, a bOrG
hangs out on a Star Trek instance
demands ban of everybody but total capitalism simps
This, kids, is what is known as “ragebait”. Very lame ragebait, may I add.
@SysAdmin@startrek.website Can I ask what they were propagandising about?
I’ve seen plenty of stuff over there saying if you’re against Russia and their social engineering being used against the US, it’s basically the same as being an antisemite.
The whole place is whackadoodle.
Theory divorced from historical context results in all kinds of cognitive dissonance, and that’s what I see there for the most part.
expect vague answers or examples of individual clueless tankies used to justify the bans of entire instances at best.
defederating & banning from tankies is popular on the lemmyverse and they’re making the decision of whom you can & can’t talk to on your behalf; whether or not you asked them for it.
if you care about your agency on this social media platform; try switching or joining another instance that treats you like an adult that can make your own decisions.
pick one that doesn’t defederate and their attempts to decide on your behalf will become self defeating and you’ll still be able to participate here.
Wah wah we were relentlessly mean to people and now they don’t want to talk to us
This is a bad take. Server admins have the final say on who they federate with. I prefer to be on an instance that bans tankies and other poorly moderated instances. Heck, I support defederating with lemmy.ml because it’s users seem to be confused about what freedom is.
no one’s arguing that they can’t make up their own rules.
also let people on other instances believe whatever they want; it has no bearing on you and you can block them and entire instances for yourself if you need to.
i don’t want power tripping mods/admins or suppressive policies to make that decision for me; that’s why so many people and I left reddit; i’m an adult who can make up my own mind and the lemmyverse already has the tools to empower me to do so.
this isn’t reddit or a walled garden; in the fediverse it’s the vegetables section of a community garden that was designed to maximize cross pollination and defederation episodes like this are like trying to install a permeable gate that don’t stop that cross pollination.
The concept of defederation is literally the single most important core feature differentiating the Fediverse from centralized social media. I find it interesting that you feel employing it to be antithetical to the concept of federated networks.
Yes it was and its misapplication in targeting the same group repeatedly is laying bare its flaws and that’s why it doesn’t work
If that same group would stop repeatedly evading bans and defeds then it wouldn’t keep happening, but since tankies’ entire existence is predicated on proselytizing to unwilling “heretics” and being as rude as they possibly can while doing it because, like the mormons, it isn’t about actually getting converts it’s about getting people to hate them so they can feed their persecution complex, here we are.
Hexbear is still online and available to anyone who wants to read the content so I’m confused as to what point you’re trying to make. If you want users to be forced to interact with other users that’s what Reddit is for.
defederation is creating bubbles with communities that have little to no activity & content and that’s going to drive away more people than any tankie ever could.
If it doesn’t work then why are you still posting?
I think this community on this instance might not be the right community for you.
@lemmy.ml
Ah, now it makes sense.
I approve when a server defederates from instances that have a large number of bad faith actors. Like strawman arguments, “examples of clueless tankies,” attempting to disguise the fact that they are as numerous as they are toxic. Like, “treated like an adult,” as an adult I’d like to not read rude and childish nonsense coming out of Hexbear.
If someone would suggest an instance that excludes hexbear, lemmygrad, and .ml I would like that. Lemmy.world is 2/3, that’s nice. I assume the instance is only federated with .ml because .ml has some of the bigger communities. Unfortunately the .ml admins are actively participating in delusional thinking and silencing anyone who disagrees. Sounds like deciding for you whom you can and can’t talk to, but that must be totally different for some reason.
The two main instances that have all three blocked are lemmy.cafe, and dubvee.org.
Nice! Thank you.
and silencing anybody who disagrees
My brother in Christ y’alls whole thing is blocking any instance that contains anybody who disagrees with your world view.
But right, its only bad when they do it and its good when you do it. 🙄
Blocking trolls, yeah, or instances that are more trolls than good faith participants. Maybe you don’t see a difference between that and just different opinions because you don’t know how to disagree in good faith.
You have a differing opinion and therefore are a bad faith actor
🎵🎵 Hey, Hi, You’re the problem It’s you! 🎵🎵
EDIT: For people claiming to be the “sane” ones, y’all sure have a compulsive need to win anonymous internet arguments by digging deep through a stranger’s history for anything you can use then blocking them.
Very sane. much adult.
Do even your middle school peers consider it good faith if you are deliberately substituting your own words for what was written and copy/pasting your own smug comments (https://reddthat.com/comment/14346864) trying to make people mad? It’s childish, that’s why people don’t engage.
I think Beehaw.org is. We’re 2/3 as well (now). .ml has some communities/users we’ve removed, but largely speaking .ml users have not caused any issues on our hosted communities, and we feel exposing them to our (generally awesome) communities is the net-positive here. Honestly .world’s (lack of) moderation is more actively an issue for our mods, but since they’re so big and we’re a niche instance we really can’t afford to de-federate from them.
Originally joined ml not knowing. Looking to move but haven’t really found what I’m looking for yet.
Lemm.ee and lemmy.zip are nice choices
not different at all; they’re doing the exact same thing and i think it’s a testament to the fediverse’s design that people with such diametrically opposed world views can exist on the same social media platform.
also, look at the toxicity being leveled at me here for my comment and coming from trekkies no less; the pot is calling the kettle black here.
consuming social media for the last 35 years or so; and ESPECIALLY with reddit; has taught me how to tolerate shit takes and high levels of toxicity and i think that’s enabled me to see to how the discourse is happening in the entirety of the lemmyverse and the people who are putting themselves into a bubble through defederation are missing out, which will ultimately drive them away because it’s choking off activity in the communities inside those bubbles and i think that the lack of content is going to drive away more people than any tankie ever could.
star trek matters to me and i want this instance to stick around; that’s why i’m trying despite the toxicity and the bad faith arguments presented here.
they’re making the decision of whom you can & can’t talk to on your behalf
If I want to talk to people on a defederated instance, I can create an account on the defederated instance. Nobody has made any decision for me. You seem unhinged.
whether or not you asked them for it
Admins having the power to decide to defederate is implied simply by being a Lemmy server. It cannot be any other way. The only “asking” that occurs in this situation is a user asking permission to sign up, create an account and use the server where the admins necessarily have that power.
Yes. That’s close to what I recommended; try paying attention outside your bubble.
LOL
pick one that doesn’t defederate and their attempts to decide on your behalf will become self defeating and you’ll still be able to participate here.
I did that back when .world defederated from lemmygrad!
And then I spent a week on Lemmy and had to block all the affiliated instances and user FOR MYSELF like a true ALPHA so I could actually use the website.
This election cycle really has drawn them out like sap from a maple tree, don’t ya think?
Tankies. Gross.
No, it is the children who are wrong
they’re making the decision of whom you can & can’t talk to on your behalf
Anyone who wants to spool up an alt on a defederated server is welcome to do so. We suck at totalitarianism.
You are correct that it is a requirement for all communities hosted on this instance to be actively moderated within instance principles.
