Startrek.website was never primarily local traffic. It used to be mostly lemmy.world users posting Star Trek content to the Star Trek communities, a lot like dullsters.net, but less extreme.
The off-instance users mostly stopped posting there and moved to Ten Forward, because of that clique’s post.
A cisgender repost farmer made a post accusing the admins of being transphobic with absolutely zero evidence, and got the other repost farmers to move with him to a community on lemmy.world. He and his friends are now some of Lemmy’s biggest power mods, with influence across dozens of popular communities. The Star Trek instance had discussion forums, lore, news, and casual conversation about Trek in addition to memes. Now people only use the .world and dbzero meme communities.
I gotta say, Xi’s version is way more effective than Donald’s
The devs can make accounts on a less controversial instance if they want their news to be heard by the rest of us
That’s because no celebrities or influencers have moved to the fediverse.
George Takei
Piefed.ca would be a great candidate, they have a nonprofit foundation or something dedicated to this kind of stuff
I send my friends memes. They ask “Muad’dib, where do you get these great memes?” I say I get my great memes from Lemmy. They instantly lose interest, because Lemmy is full of tankies and kinphobes
But there’s barely any content here, especially outside of leftist politics and GNU/Linux
We used to have a thriving Star Trek instance before that one guy made that one post
If you want to play Minecraft with friends, you need to find a server. Still the most popular game in the world.
If we defederate Hexbear and ml, that will go some of the way to easing those bad experiences for new users
Hexbear is nothing like a leftist MAGA rally. It’s more like a MAGA rally.
I think you’d be better served finding an asexual boyfriend or doing polyamoury.
That’s okay, glad we cleared that up
I disagree
Who needs a Bitcoin to live? Nobody. But the price of a Bitcoin is still 90,000 dollars. People aren’t living in their bitcoins, they want Bitcoins because other people want them. That’s why they’re expensive.
A house is like a Bitcoin that you need to live. Rich people are hoarding houses because other rich people want them, the same as Bitcoins. The problem is everyone needs a house. So we need to ban rich people from hoarding them somehow. Then the price will go down.
I’ve been homeless. Give me a shit house I can call mine and let me work to improve it. Let me put money into replacing the pipes and removing the mold instead of into rent. With the prices landlords are charging these days, it would be easy.
Well that was a different time. Kids these days are focused on getting good grades so they can get a decent job and prepare for the climate wars.
Every time someone says the dub is actually good this time and I try it out, it sounds like shit. Frieren was the last time I trusted the dubbers and they made her sound like a MILF. She’s supposed to sound like a young woman because that’s what she is by elf standards. There was a whole running gag about whether she’s a MILF which doesn’t make any sense in english because she is definitively a MILF there.
Yes, I agree that most users were unaware, but most users also follow the leader-y types who have the strong opinions. Those three repost farmers worked together to move all the content over, and anyone who investigated was given the post with the transphobia claim as a reason. This locked in the network effect that made most people move over to Ten Forward, with little outcry.
ST.W did have legitimate moderation problems, but the problems with the Ten Forward clique are much worse.