• UlyssesT [he/him]
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    8 hours ago

    "And that is why it is cool and good when Holden Bloodfeast III has dynastic rule over all of you when he specialized in beer pong before he dropped out of college!"

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    • eldavi@lemmy.ml
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      7 hours ago

      i didn't much care when other communities fell apart; but i think that the startrek instance is a sign that the entire lemmyverse is eventually going to go this way since they're such an overwhelming majority and i hope that it's at least decades away.

      i pray that the admins have a plan if the mali government decides assert their domain rights since that's the most direct path for taking .ml offline and they're clearly going to rely on defederation to choke off hexbear and lemmygrad, but not .ml (yet)

      i've had to move to platforms enough times to learn that you take action at the first sign and i've done so; but my heart is making me stay and invest in .ml as much as i can, so thanks for sharing.

      • anarchoilluminati [comrade/them]
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        8 hours ago

        I'm a little out of the loop, what's going on with the Star Trek instance?

        Hopefully Hexbear, Lemmy, and Lemmygrad can survive in some form.

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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          8 hours ago

          I stopped paying attention to it right around the time that the "dae le section 31 adults in the room getting shit done amirite" and "dae le epic terran empire humanity fuck yea amirite" glazers started shaping the discourse as they did on Reddit.

          • anarchoilluminati [comrade/them]
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            19 minutes ago

            Damn, it's a shame that led to defederation though. I had thought that they were cool with us and were mostly Leftist because of the political stuff on Star Trek.

            • UlyssesT [he/him]
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              11 minutes ago

              mostly Leftist because of the political stuff on Star Trek

              Decades of festering contrarianism and "bad guys are cool actually" ideology in the Trek fandom made far too many people seem somehow embarrassed by the idea of a brighter future in the setting, or that the Federation was actually cool and good and didn't need to have edgy murderfucking black ops "Adults In The Room" no matter how much Rick Berman pushed the idea because he was always a piece of shit.

              Those toxic fans are numerous enough that I lost count of how many "USS AYN RANDs" I saw flying around Star Trek Online. The zone chat in Earth Spacedock is basically /pol/, 24/7.

        • eldavi@lemmy.ml
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          8 hours ago

          they've defederated with hexbear and i think it's significant because i think that it was independent of the reddit userbase diaspora instances initially and it had a significant userbase of its own, or atleast bigger that most.

          all of the other smaller instances either went inactive or merged into one of the huge instances that were filled up by the reddit refugees and i think that the startrek instance will do something similar since their activity has started to flat line slightly. those huge instances are hellbent on drowning out leftist views and my experience teaches me that they're not going to idly sit by and leave us alone next to their golden echo chambers.