Cross-posted from “FYI: StarTrek.website is no longer federating with Lemmy.dbzer0.com” by @Admin@startrek.website in !quarks@startrek.website
Crossposting here since y’all won’t be able to see it now that they’ve defederated us.
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.
I don’t consider this a massive loss tbh. We already have !Risa@lemmy.dbzer0.com and !tenforward@lemmy.world was already more active than their whole instance. And I’m sure @Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com can provide the noxious lore of their instance if you’re interested. The only loss would be not having members such as @Kirk@startrek.website running around running interference for DDoSers like @ptz@dubvee.org. Also Admiral Patrick of the Tesseract fame, was also an admin on their instance iirc so this is a clear retaliation as far as I’m concerned, even though we didn’t actually do anything to AP.
But also
db0 explicitly allows hosting discussions about hurting people
What the fuck does this even mean? Can someone ask for an example? Is this about Luigi? IDFK…
PS: Will this drama season never end? I want my free time back >_<
Presumably he did this due to Freudian reasons?
He ironically claimed it was to allow other people to be seen/heard “through the noise”, and to “save the fediverse” so I’d say it’s more than likely.
All of which is fine to do from an administered back end… Like dubvee for example (the instance he ran). But I guess that wasn’t good enough, and he felt his will needed to be enforced on other instances also.