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 >_<
86 Comments
ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 47 pts · 29d
Huh? Since when? Lol.
Don’t think DB0 as a whole ever allowed such a thing. We as an instance are heavily against hurting others (I mean we are against racism, hatred, Zionism, Nazism… you name it).
The discussion of Luigi is one that’s is actually needed to be had. The guy did something wrong, yes. But he had all the reasons for it. The industry hurts (and kills) thousands of people just for their profit. Just once they got the “favor” returned.
Anyway, I have no idea what that particular instance is. So won’t be missing it either.
Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 54 pts · 29d
Institution violence is fine and dandy apparently, because capitalism, but violence against your oppressors ... no way man!
thal3s@sh.itjust.works · 37 pts · 29d
For all the talk about AdmiralPatrick’s unstable behavior, what gets me is this obsession with “no violence!!”
What do they think Elon did with USAID or what healthcare companies do every day? Capitalism is grinding us into dust and literally destroying the planet, but when someone suggests a French solution they’re the lunatics? Bro, pull your head out.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 15 pts · 29d
Those guys are killing you by taking away the things you need to live. That's way different than shooting you! /s
orlyowl@piefed.ca · 35 pts · 29d
Mac@mander.xyz · 11 pts · 29d
Luigi has not been convicted of a crime.
veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 44 pts · 29d
I mean if discussing how to defend yourself from capitalist / fasch / nazi opression counts as "hurting people", I guess we could take that as a badge of honour? We don't owe to our oppressors to put their welfare above ours!
apotheotic@beehaw.org · 5 pts · 29d
I read this as "defend yourself from capitalist / French / Nazi oppression" and it was fucking hilarious. Sorry to sidetrack.
veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 28d
Now that would be a day! XD
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 36 pts · 29d
Uhh I'm fairly certain that Kirk isn't running interference for Patrick and ptz. All three are the same sad and pathetic guy, from what I understand.
AzuranAurora@piefed.ca · 7 pts · 29d
(Pretty sure that's the joke)
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 29d
(fair enough, it's hard to tell sometimes)
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com · 33 pts · 29d
Lol at their comments, they won't even give evidence to back up their claims. Just bot-like responses.
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 29d
Didn't this have something to do with the tesseract drama? I think that guy has it out for the anarchists.
harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 29d
Yes. db0 posted about the blocklist after updating Tesseract for the dbzero instance, basically putting it on blast (as they should have).
The dev also turned their home page into a ddos enabler, using visitor browsers to send 2000 requests to the dbzero instance.
Odds are good that this same person was also running the st.w instance.
Wobble@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 29d
That is unhinged behaviour and that sounds explicitly malicious and WE should defederate from hostile instances that target our infrastructure.
I'm sure DDOSes are a crime in the jurisdiction they are in and in whatever value system they respect.
eldavi@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 29d
the tesseract guy was also an admin on startrek.website and he has it out for anyone left of him like the piefed creator does.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 29d
he seems like the main ADMIN for it.
eldavi@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 28d
i get banned from communities without ever participating in them, so i wouldn't know. lol
nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 32 pts · 29d
Passerby6497@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 29d
That sounds like this is retaliatory action for db0 calling out AP for being a shitlord and demanding the censorship gets rolled back in Tesseract.
After all, db0 shamed and tried to influence policy for a turd who wanted to control what their users could even see.
A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 32 pts · 29d
eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 19 pts · 29d
Scratch a liberal, and a fascist bleeds. And my family has a history of bashing fascists. I'm just partaking in my family tradition.
oceanwaveswoosh@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 29d
hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 29d
It takes time to write things chill.
oceanwaveswoosh@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 29d
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip · 26 pts · 29d
I'm genuinely trying to think of the last time I saw a post from startrek.website and drawing a blank.
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 29d
The last one I saw was the ama
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 24 pts · 29d
There are a lot of people questioning their decision. The admin refuses to provide proof.
Good riddens. 🤷♂️
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 29d
I'm sure that admin is Admiral Patrick's alt. There are signs that they share the same sentiment as him. I kind of knew he wasn't going to just leave the Fediverse entirely.
darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 29d
What a weird stance to take when the internet is full of people talking about wishing death on the fat orange monkey and no one bats an eye but something obscure on this instance gets their panties in a bunch.
ArkyonVeil@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 29d
It is always disappointing. Condoning violence is never acceptable. Unfortunately for us, news after new after news article, we see those who protest peaceful through speech have senseless violence imposed on them. They did not ask to be murdered.
The ones that asked, have 24/7 news coverage. But it's okay because they say "it's concerning".
So now that some guy had enough and imposes justice that the law could never give. Through his actions paid one life to save hundreds?
True, it shouldn't have come to that. True, the soulless husk in a thousand dollar tie should've been put to prison. But violence is the speech of the oppressed who see no other way to fight back.
It's just okay to kill through oppression, because it's "official", "legal" and "their fault".
Luigi is not a hero through the man he allegedly killed. He is a hero because he represents the fury of the people.
In our side, we welcome discussion on solving the problems that we hear about on a daily basis. But turning a blind eye while people are butchered right in the open will not help anyone.
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 29d
Literally every country I know of has a military. Police carry weapons. Sometimes people need to physically defend others. Violence ia culturally accepted everywhere. You should see the rampant soldier worship in the US.
What fanatasy world exists where there is never a reason for violence?
This is some stupid smear campaign. Examples or they can fuck off.
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 29d
What do you mean? Violence is acceptable or even good in many cases.
What do you call it when someone hurts or damages an attacking person until they stop?
Violence and the capacity to direct it underpins all power in society for good and ill. If you are not protected by it then you are vulnerable to anyone who is willing to use it. Ideally you don't have to resort to violence but that doesn't mean that when you do it's bad.
oceanwaveswoosh@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 29d
veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 23d
Tell that to the 210-something States of the World that have constitutional, legal, standing armies.
gedfromgont@piefed.ca · 14 pts · 29d
Startrek.website was the first instance I chose years ago coming from Reddit.
I abandoned it because I noticed mods (or admins?) deleting seemingly random stuff and opinions without much explanation. Took me a while to catch it because I remembered seeing this one post and then later in the day it was just gone, no reference to anything in the modlog.
Obviously just anecdotal evidence and my own subjective experience, but I had Startrek.website on my personal blocklist ever since. I see now that wasn't transferred when I made this account on Piefed, ah well, here we go again.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 29d
seems like startek.website is a trap, to get people to the instance, and started censoring to isolate people, does it have anything to do with TREK at all.?
T156@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 28d
It's rather a bit dead these days, but during the days of the API shutdown, and for a little bit after, it was basically meant to be the Lemmy alternative to the Reddit Star Trek communities.
Unfortunately, it never really got enough traction to do very much at all.
tetris11@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 29d
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 12 pts · 29d
Admiral "the cunt" Patrick shitting in his own pants again.
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 29d
I knew the story wouldn't end with him taking down his own instance. Either it was going to be brought back or he had another one.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 29d
he will likely make another one once the news blows over.
AbidanYre@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 29d
He already rage quit the fediverse once like a year ago.
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 28d
I think it's clear that he needs the fediverse more than it needs him.
eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 28d
Always amazing when someone says "I'm leaving, I can't stand this place" and just stays. I wonder why they do it. Hoping someone says don't go?
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 28d
Probably attention or an attempt at virtue signaling.
eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 28d
Right wingers often project, makes sense.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 28d
he seems addicted to having his ego stroked.
fervent_apathy@anarchist.nexus · 3 pts · 29d
Can't wait for captainSpongebob@dubuee.org to make an appearance. /s
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 28d
"Hurting people"
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 28d
Fascists
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 28d
Works for me
raspberry_confetti@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 29d
Bye, felicia
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 29d
As long as the Fediverse has human users there will be drama.
oceanwaveswoosh@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 29d
hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 31 pts · 29d
Tesseract was a piece of trojan horse malware that purported to be an alternate Lemmy interface. It added a different UI and some features to the web interface of instances that were well liked. However, its true purpose was to secretly add a block list to instances that run it. It blocked instances, and URLs that the developer personally disliked, without telling anyone that it was doing it.
This drama started when the developer added dbz0 and blahaj to the blocklist, and the dbz0 admins noticed it and blew the whistle.
This caused Lemmy users to actually read the source code, and they found much more, like a second doubly secret blacklist that tesseract download from the developer's server at runtime. That list blocked many prominent Lemmy users individually, so naturally many of them took that as a badge of honor and posted about being on the list.
The developer has continued his public crash out. He's done many things, like defending his actions using alt accounts, deleting the github to stop nob-malware forks, and posting lengthy supervillian type monologues about why he did it. The most recent one, he claimed to be leaving the fediverse, and posted it to his own website with a script to make any readers DDOS the dbz0 instance as revenge for breaking the story.
He's now using his own instance to defederate dbz0 as a continuation of his crashout to get revenge or something. He said he's left but no probably not.
That's about where this whole situation stands. Hope this helps.
wrekone@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 29d
That's nuckin futs. Thanks for the breakdown.
oceanwaveswoosh@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 29d
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 2 pts · 28d
There was some original drama about the instance itself in the first place, wasn't there? Some bullshit that split the Trekkie meme communities but I didn't pay attention at the time.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 29d
https://sh.itjust.works/post/63880645
The dev in question is part of the admin team for the startrek.website instance, an instance that has historically made some very... questionable decisions.
oceanwaveswoosh@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 29d
Senal@programming.dev · 13 pts · 29d
If their parting message is to be believed it's because they are the last bastion of sanity.
Can't link to the original because they added a script that ddos'd an instance they don't like...you know...like a well adjusted saviour would do.
oceanwaveswoosh@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 28d
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 29d
Pushing his ideology onto others who hadn't agreed to it. Fahrenheit 451, lemmy style.
oceanwaveswoosh@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 29d
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 29d
That's the irony, a lot of people noted that if he had only been upfront about it, he'd probably have gotten some level of adoption. Instead he burned his bridges with the entire fediverse.
He did have his own instance with his own blocklist running. Nobody realised quite how extensive the list was at the time. Didn't have many users though, probably because the place was a barren wasteland after being filtered through all his blocks. That wasn't good enough for him.
oceanwaveswoosh@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 28d
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 0 pts · 29d
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 29d
fascists always love to use deception, because hatred is well liked by most people.
MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 29d
The drama just never ends does it...
oceanwaveswoosh@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 29d
MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 29d
In short an entitled frontend developer decided to try censoring a large portion of Lemmy in the app he made. He attempted to hide it but got caught when he blocked our instance and @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com our admin investigated and discovered it. The second he went public about it people were outraged about it, as they should be. What he did is a major overstep on his part to try to dictate moderation on servers he has no control over.
oceanwaveswoosh@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 29d
MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 29d
He doesn't just want to curate his own community. He wants to censor stuff for everyone else, even on servers which he has no authority to do so. That's why he tried to hide the changes, including obfuscating the instance block function to say the server isn't compatible.
oceanwaveswoosh@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 29d
fervent_apathy@anarchist.nexus · 5 pts · 29d
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.
oceanwaveswoosh@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 28d
mrdown@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 29d
Not s big deal witht that very small very specific topic
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 29d
Unfortunately people who don't know better other than the subject matter might make accounts there and not know what they're missing.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world · -23 pts · 29d
I ranted about this in another thread some, but I’m with startrek.website here.
I almost switched to db0 when I first found Lemmy.world and joined it; you guys seemed, ideologically, closest to me. I loved the vibe.
This is me. Every word. I love this.
…But holy hell.
The bar for calling for explicit violence is basically zero, as long as the target fits the instance’s views. And I’ve watched the admin come in and personally validate that policy in the threads in question.
I wouldn’t want to touch this instance, either.
Again, I’m otherwise sympathetic to everything about this instance, yet I think I’d vote for Lemmy.world to defederate from db0 if it ever comes up.
And I’m not here to debate how I’m apparently not antifascist enough, or shoot down accusations that I’m a pacifist, or whatever.
I’m sick of that.
And I’m clearly not moving the needle here. I’m not trying to; do what you do. I just thought I’d provide a perspective of someone who was otherwise quite attracted to this community.
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 39 pts · 29d
Lol what are you on about mate, what calls to explicit violence? You mean defending ourselves against fascist stormtroopers? Sorry but we ain't pacifists
blartcap_@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 23 pts · 29d
This entire accusation revolves around an extreme extrapolation from reading the statement "We're not pacifists" in response to AdmiralPatrick's insistence that any acceptance of violence is evil, no matter the context. There is no reasonable way to see that statement and jump to "Therefore they glorify and encourage violence" without filling in a lot of blanks with assumptions.
Curiously, you're doing it with the exact same language that AdmiralPatrick used, where the exact nature of the targets of the "instance's views" aren't specified.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world · -12 pts · 29d
I'm just citing my own personal observations interacting with the db0 community. The calls for violance and death were not subtle.
It has little to do with whatever happened to tesseract; I noticed this trend before that, but all that controversy just bubbled it to the top of my conscious (as it seems to have with that startrek community).
If you're accusing me of being AdmiralPatrick or related to them, I don't really know how to respond to that. But I'm not, and I've been on Lemmy over 2 years so far.
Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 20 pts · 29d
Still zero examples though, why are you so reluctant to give one?
blartcap_@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 29d
No, I'm saying that you're sharing the same flawed tactic: vaguely referencing something that sounds bad but could be easily explicable with the context provided. It's especially not a great way to go about it right now after Admiral Patrick used it to make accusations that don't hold up to scrutiny about more than just the dbzero instance, but also blahaj.zone and its admins.
Like what's the threshold for "calls of violence and death" here? You also reinforced Admiral Patrick's idea that it was acceptable only towards people the instance's admin agreed with. So what are the specific details? Who were these calls for violence and death towards? How intense were they? Are we talking about "Punch Nazis" or "Kill all brown people"? Both are calls for violence and death but are still very different.
eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 29d
Still waiting for examples.
eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 28d
2 days later while you've been active, where's the evidence?
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus · 18 pts · 29d
Then why did you bring it up? And you brought it up the first time too.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world · -11 pts · 29d
Because when I bring this up, I get replies calling me a fascist sympathizer, and the whole thread barrels towards Godwin's law.
You can indulge in that all you want, again, if you wish. I'm not interested in that rabbit hole.
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus · 16 pts · 29d
I didn't call you a fascist sympathizer. I gave you the mildest pushback that your actions and beliefs might be inconsistent.
veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 29d
If it whines like a duck and it blames violence on the oppressed like a duck... then at least that means that duck is capable of thinking, and should get to that.
fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com · 5 pts · 29d
Then why the fuck are you here? You can leave whenever you want.
eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 29d
You get called a fascist sympathizer for being one. Try harder.
Eristalis@reddthat.com · -4 pts · 29d
Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 29d
Speaking as someone who did move from LW to db0, and then subsequently instance blocked lemmy.world and saw the instant improvement in my fediverse experience, I’m also in favor of LW defederating from everyone else.
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 29d
I tried blocking them for a while and there were only a few subscriptions I couldn't get. Defederating would be an exposure issue, though.
Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 29d
The idea is they defederate from everyone and finally get the private FaceBook group echo-chamber they clearly desire. Then it's not an exposure issue for the rest of us outside their walled garden.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 29d
To be clear, I'm not a fan of LW either. I've got communities blocked there, and I'm still considering leaving.
fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com · 4 pts · 29d
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 29d
Can you give any examples? Because this sounds suspiciously like the post in quarks where an accusation was made, and the evidence is “I’m not willing to provide examples because it goes against my principles.”
Pandantic@midwest.social · 2 pts · 28d
Do you think the US is a fascist/imperial state? Is your solution to the problems with our world to vote the fascists out?
jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 27d
Its always funny to watch people to try and claim to be part of anarchist groups and completely missing the donkey mask they have on.