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So.... How long have we been here? Its been dead on Risa for months

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  • Am I being deprived of Stamets' memes because of some thin-skinned power-tripping douche mod?

    Time for a new instance. Any recommendations for a stable instance that federates with everyone (except for the worst, of course)?

    Edit: If anyone is confused, I meant to reply to this comment that links to Stamets' recent rundown on the whole kerfuffle.

    Edit 2: I just learned something I'd like to share with anyone else that needs to know. If a user (Stamets, for example) is banned on your instance (startrek.website, for example) even here, a community on lemmy.world, you can't see his posts. Not only that, but if he comments you can't see any replies to his comment. There are a lot of comments in this thread startrek.website users can't see.

    If you don't want overzealous admins curating your experience on other instances, you might want to find a new instance.

    • Sh.itjust.works has been excellent for me since joining. Any outages we have had have been resolved quickly and I have yet to see any spam.

    • Well, you can't see me at all but I'd obviously recommend lemmy.world personally although lemmy.dbzer0.com is a close second. I've heard mixed things about lemm.ee's administration. sh.itjust.works is pretty good for the most part. I've got some personal experience with a couple of admins who are really kind people who work way too hard.

    • I just jumped over to world because of all this. That makes my third instance in less than a year after leaving kbin.social for startrek land a few months ago. Lemmy is a little exhausting.

    • Come sail the high seas, matey

      • Considering how much Paramount+ is charging- $11.99/mo for no ads- when they have a fraction of the content of, for example, Peacock, which costs the same... I don't blame anyone for pirating Star Trek shows at this point.

        And, of course, on top of that, Star Trek is spread across multiple streaming services and you would have to subscribe to them all and spend a ton of money if you wanted to watch it all.

        Most Star Trek is on Paramount+. But if you want to watch Prodigy? You need Netflix. Want to watch the TOS and TNG movies? You need Max. But hey, you can watch JJ "Trek" on Paramount+ instead of First Contact or Wrath of Khan. If you really want to.

      • The admins and mods of that instance are 100% going to prison or getting heavily fined. Stay away or at least access it via Tor.

        • The admins and mods of that instance are 100% going to prison or getting heavily fined.

          And why would that be?

          • Illegal activity (not you, the piracy instance)

            • Oh no I know you didn't mean me, no worries. I was just curious. I've heard this said but I've also heard this said for months. Things going well so far.

              • What I predict is that it will slowly grow and then at some point it will get shutdown. It might be 6 months or it might be 6 years. Its hard to say.

                • r/piracy still survives to this day, so I very very highly doubt that. The police don't care about people consuming pirated media or discussing it, they want to catch the people making the cracks

                  • Reddit has a dedicated legal team. Do you? Its just a matter of time before it gets shutdown.

                    • I think it would be very difficult to shut down a federated community and probably not worth it.

                      Even though these media companies do prosecute pirates on occasion, I have believe for a long time that they actually don't have the problem with piracy their PR teams make it sound like they have.

                      After all, piracy drives up publicity for a show with people beyond pirates because the pirates will watch the show and, theoretically, talk about why they like it on places like Reddit or Lemmy. Which would result in increased revenue for them.

                      The pirates were not going to buy anyway and everyone else is going to be encouraged by the pirates talking up the show. And the companies must know that, which is why Lemmy piracy instances will be fine and why the only pirates they usually prosecute are the ones serving a huge number of files.

    • If a user (Stamets, for example) is banned on your instance (startrek.website, for example) even here, a community on lemmy.world, you can’t see his posts. Not only that, but if he comments you can’t see any replies to his comment. There are a lot of comments in this thread startrek.website users can’t see.

      Jeez, that is...wow. A shitty mod can really wreck content visibility on the 'verse if they're feeling particularly shitty.

    • Along with what Stamets already said, and I hope he doesn't mind if he speaks on his behalf, he will be rather occupied for the foreseeable future- at least in the short term- and will be posting fewer memes during that time. But eventually, he'll be back to his usual excellent post frequency and hopefully the rest of us mods can do what we can to fill the hole in his absence. And we'll sure miss him while he's busy!

      Let me know if you want me to delete this, Stamets. I thought letting people know they won't see as much of you as usual for a while would be okay, so I hope you'll be okay with me revealing that without giving any personal details. Especially since we all love you and your posts and I don't want people thinking what OP is thinking and getting concerned.

      (To clarify, nothing dire is happening with Stamets, he'll just be occupied with things other than Lemmy.)

      • Oh nah, you're fine. No need to worry about that. Also that really did sound dire until that last line lol

        I'm moving. That's all <3

        • Cool, I didn't want to say why you were going to be occupied just in case you didn't want that detail out. And if I didn't say this to you before, good luck with the move and we'll see you soon!

          • No worries. I appreciate the discretion, my friend. And I'll need it! Spending the week (starting Tuesday) with my homie and future roomie so we will see how it goes.

    • Any instance that is over a year old and medium sized should be fine.

      My instance is Lemmy.zip but there are many more.

      https://lemmyverse.net/

    • lemdro.id is always happy to host :)

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