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A chimpanzee and two trainees in a trench coat

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You are correct that it is a requirement for all communities hosted on this instance to be actively moderated within instance principles.

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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.

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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.

Announcement to non-StarTrek.website users: on July 10th, c/Quarks will change to "locals only". Thanks to the Lemmy devs for this new feature!

The goal of c/Quarks has always been to help foster a sense of community for StarTrek.website, but it is just a generic “offtopic” community and does not really have an identity of it’s own on the Fediverse....

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Thanks, we do too!

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I think she’s saying she’s upset we don’t remove enough content from other communities (federated with us but not originating) on this instance. Which is correct, the admins here generally leave content on other communities alone if they are actively moderated.

Ok nevermind she’s apparently saying /c/StarTrek and /c/Risa are “spam”?

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The admin team doesn’t make instance decisions based on what’s “popular”. It’s actually against our mission statement. Though that doesn’t mean community input is ignored.

But that being said, admins can see who’s voting and we can see that the downvotes are not coming from users with much/any history in this community. So we are not taking their feedback strongly into account.

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The admin team doesn’t make instance decisions based on what’s “popular”. It’s actually against our mission statement. Though that doesn’t mean community input is ignored.

But that being said, admins can see who’s voting and we can see that the downvotes are not coming from users with much/any history in this community. So we are not taking their feedback strongly into account.

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The admin team doesn’t make instance decisions based on what’s “popular”. It’s actually against our mission statement. Though that doesn’t mean community input is ignored.

But that being said, admins can see who’s voting and we can see that the downvotes are not coming from users with much/any history in this community. So we are not taking their feedback strongly into account.

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I hear you, but “drawing folks into the fandom tent” was not what Quark’s (or the instance for that matter) was created for. Quark’s has always been “General off-topic chat for the crew of startrek.website.”.

That said, if you or anyone else wanted to create a community with that or a related stated purpose (and promised to grow and actively maintain it in line with instance values) I would be more than happy to entertain the idea. But you can’t have mine lol

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@ptz@dubvee.org Tagging you here because you’re basically the only other person who contributes to this community.

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Per instance guidelines, submitting on-topic content to relevant communities is not considered spam. But if you want to stay subscribed to /c/STO and block ValueSubtracted’s “spam” StarTrek.website has a block feature you can find on their userpage.

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The problem is nobody wants to grow and maintain a federated “Trek adjacent” community. I’ve even offered the opportunity to host one on this instance and nobody wants to put in the effort.

(Also, I just need to point out that Stamets was not “right” about anything involving our team. He claimed the Risa mods were “transphobic”, and set up a new community where he repeated the claims. When one of our Admins asked Stamets if he intended to continue, he cried harassment and used the attention to promote a GoFundMe.)

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Yeah I totally agree with pretty much everything you just said.

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This update should increase the thermal capacity of your takes by .05%

Admin, (edited )
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This has been on our todo list for a while, but turned into a harder nut to crack than I initially assumed. Thanks for the additional info. I’ll comment here and make a new post when this gets sorted.

EDIT: It’s sorted

ValueSubtracted, to quarks
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Paramount’s CFO Is Focused on “Getting the Most Out of Every Single Dollar We Invest in Content”

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/paramounts-cfo-content-investment-deals-streaming-1235844185/

@quarks

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test reply

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old.startrek.website

It’s startrek.website but looks like the “old Reddit” UI

Also, it’s working again.

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Great!

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Good for them! I have said this before, but I would be more than happy to have a chat about providing hosting to M-A or at least offering them wiki.startrek.website (or whatever) assuming it’s sustainable of course.

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Good to know, thanks! I added it to the post.

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Is bureaucracy canon?

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Hm, I’ll take a look at that. I haven’t tried that app yet.

EDIT: Yes, looks like that’s a bug with Liftoff

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Way ahead of ya! Glad you got it working.

EDIT: You were ahead of me! OK

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Thanks for bringing this to my attention, I’ve done just that.

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I have no idea, but in defense of the devs, there’s a reason they are calling it version 0.19 and not 0.5 or “1.0” There’s a lot to do, but look at projects like Mastodon a year ago vs today and they’ve made some dramatic improvements in terms of polish and usability.

Personally I think it’s a good thing Lemmy isn’t more popular right now, because there’s no way it could absorb Reddit levels of users in a healthy way.

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You could always browse c/Risa via another instance through the miracle of federation 🌈lemmy.world/c/risa@startrek.website

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ok that gif is slightly misleading there were no exploding plasma conduits it was literally down for thirty seconds it didn’t even register on lemmy-status (thank you for letting us know)

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No Sir. Didn’t happen.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LISFWVSaRAY

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Thank you (singular) for helping keep to keep this community vibrant!

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Thanks for the kind words, I was just throwing random ideas out there to get juices flowing about wiki potential.

Perhaps we should rename the instance to “Stamets’ no bloody A, B, C or D-tier meme emporium and other minor associated Star Trek communities”

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Nice find, do you want a wiki account with editing permissions?

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I’m into this idea! What would you guys need from us? I’ve opened registration for the wiki so you can make editor accounts, but the theming seems to be largely on the backend.

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I changed the wiki registration to open so please go ahead and do whatever (I will regret this won’t I?)

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