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Corgana

@ Corgana @startrek.website

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/r/StarTrek founder and primary steward from 2008-2021

Currently on the board of directors for StarTrek.website

  • Rochester city councilor calls for removal of bike lanes

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  • If anyone else was confused, this is Rochester New Hampshire, a city of ~30K people and the 4th largest American Rochester.

  • Fediverse Challenge: Prove there's still good in the world

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  • More mods and admins on Fedi need to step up and take bolder action, imo. Whether intentional or not, a mods inaction will often set the tone for a given community more than their actions.

    Imagine the community you mod meets in person and someone is being obnoxious and disruptive. A new attendee is not going to speak up, they're going to look to you for guidance. If you allow unwelcoming behavior to persist, then attendees learn that being loud is how to get noticed, and if they don't want to be loud (as many of us don't) they'll just stop going.

  • Reddit to cap powermods to 5 large communities

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  • Learning that the Lemmy.world team will capitulate to whatever it's loudest users want explains a LOT.

  • Look in your heart, you know it to be true (OC)

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  • This. The way I see it, if an admin can't (or won't) moderate their users, the problem can only get worse.

  • Look in your heart, you know it to be true (OC)

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  • Lemmy is just software that anyone can use. Each Lemmy instance with open sign ups has their own rules. But even so- there would be no way of knowing which Lemmy users are equivalent to any reddit user without the user itself making it known.

  • Reddit admin doesn't like that /r/CirclejerkSopranos is political and threatens their mods to remove the politics, or shut it down

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  • Yep. IMO, the experience of using social media was pretty good (far from perfect but pretty good) going into 2014, but 2014 set in motion what became 2015. When gamergate-style ""debate"" tactics took over well, everything.

    EDIT: And more importantly those tactics weren't banned by most subreddits

  • Look in your heart, you know it to be true (OC)

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  • I did the same. Thank goodness for personal block lists.

  • Fediverse memes @feddit.uk
    Corgana @startrek.website

    Look in your heart, you know it to be true (OC)

  • Reddit admin doesn't like that /r/CirclejerkSopranos is political and threatens their mods to remove the politics, or shut it down

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  • Oh yes, I believe it is the responsibility of instance admins, as I believe it is the responsibility of the Reddit admins too. And if Steve Huffman wants Reddit to be a pro gamergate right wing website he absolutely has that right. What I wanted to highlight is that Reddit has a long history of enforcing their policies selectively in ways that just-so-happen to allow right wing propagandists free access to everyone else's communities.

  • Reddit admin doesn't like that /r/CirclejerkSopranos is political and threatens their mods to remove the politics, or shut it down

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  • The_Donald encouraging violence against women? "We allow all ideas no matter how unpopular".

    The creator of KotakuInAction removes posts encouraging violence against women? That crosses a line!

  • Reddit admin doesn't like that /r/CirclejerkSopranos is political and threatens their mods to remove the politics, or shut it down

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  • If someone creates a community about topic A and removes posts about topic B, that is not "subverting".

  • The complete guide to building your personal self hosted server for streaming and ad-blocking powered by Plex, Jellyfin, Adguard Home and Docker.

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  • I do know the addons (not the same as integrations) need the full OS yes. I have it on a Pi but you could do a virtual machine for HAOS (there is an official virtual machine image on their website, also make sure to pass through your matter/zigbee/etc USB adapter).

    You could also just run the container Home Assistant version, and run any "addons" as other docker containers within CasaOS or Yuno host, and point the integrations at those. I imagine it would take a little bit of extra configuration but shouldn't be too hard.

  • Reddit admin doesn't like that /r/CirclejerkSopranos is political and threatens their mods to remove the politics, or shut it down

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  • I honestly get it to some degree. ~50% of threadiverse users are people banned from most of reddit and are the most hopelessly miserable and arrogant assholes to be around. On top of that, the main content feeds are overwhelmed with low effort memes that give the whole Threadiverse dead-internet vibes. Until the larger instances actually take steps to make themselves welcoming while creating space for real discussions I wouldn't blame anyone checking out lemmy.world (or whatever) and just noping right back out like the grandpa Simpson meme.

  • Reddit admin doesn't like that /r/CirclejerkSopranos is political and threatens their mods to remove the politics, or shut it down

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  • Reddit (the company) deciding what communities can be about is actually not new and I wish it were widely known. The first big example I know of goes back to 2018 when the admins overrode a subreddit creator to force their community to be for (pro) gamergate content.

  • The complete guide to building your personal self hosted server for streaming and ad-blocking powered by Plex, Jellyfin, Adguard Home and Docker.

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  • Sorry just seeing this, looks like there is a Home Assistant addon yes. Yunohost is very similar but seems to be more popular, so I'd say try both and see what you like.

  • Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized?

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  • I haven't seen much arguing, it is unquestionably centralized and for profit. There truly is nothing unique about it.

    I'm not an expert with the AT protocol but it really seems like what Dorsey and co have made is a super complicated protocol that (under specific conditions that cannot exist in the real world), has the potential to be federated in a meaningful way. That way they can steal all the talking points of the fediverse and muddy the meaning of words.

    There are also a lot of people on Fedi who will seek out threads like these to explain how line 2532 of the AT protocol handbook explains how having 100% of users on a single server is actually decentralized but I'm sure they're all authentic accounts.

  • Left-Wing Extremism on the Decentralized Web: Fediverse's Lemmygrad.ml endorses authoritarian regimes, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, exhibits anti-Zionist and antisemitic rhetoric, study reveals

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  • "The decentralized web" ...so... "the web"? Do they not realize literally anyone, even extremists, can make a Lemmy instance with spare parts and a wifi connection?

    Left-wing extremists have been showing “substantial activity on Lemmygrad"

    "Left wing extremists have been showing substantial activity on the website that was literally built for that type of content" What's next? They "investigate" the amount of Trekkie related activity on StarTrek.website?

    I think a far more interesting research subject is looking into the number of ostensibly non-extremist instances are hosting extremist content by virtue of federation.

  • Steve Huffman's straw man: "[Reddit's most devoted volunteers] used to tell us not to grow."

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  • Funny how the platform still runs on their unpaid labor, isn’t it?

    Something I learned during the Vaxxhappened protest is just how many moderators are perfectly content to do these "jobs". I found it honestly very sad how many of these what are ostensibly "community leaders" will happily acquiescence to the demands desires of the company as long as they can continue to do the job.

    Don't get me wrong I have a lot of sympathy for many of the moderators there who care deeply about their communities and providing a welcoming experience and feel stuck to Reddit, but until more of them grow a spine and idk, move to Lemmy or something like the top r/startrek and r/daystrominstaitute mods did (not me to be clear) then nothing of substance will change there. There is a seeming endless supply of people willing to clean up Reddit for free.

  • Lemmy engage with you in meaningful conversation

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  • Lol "theme party" is great! A vision of the fediverse as multiple concurrent theme parties is something I can get behind.

  • Lemmy engage with you in meaningful conversation

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  • Hey Blaze I know you're a good dude and I highly respect your efforts in spreading Lemmy, I feel I should tell you with kindness that you have fallen for bait. The OP of that post has been banned (for over a year) for multiple violations (that I won't discuss publicly because we don't want to encourage harassment) and was given multiple warnings beforehand.

    Since being banned, OP has been left alone, but created and continues to repeat a false narrative that they are a victim of abuse by one of our admins. They have spread this lie to multiple platforms (I will not link to them) in an ongoing campaign. Yes, OP considers reporting of their posts to be abuse (which is absurd on it's face) but there has been zero communication publicly or privately since the ban.

    I strongly encourage you to read through that post you linked and try to find an actual instance where OP was "abused". They have been left alone since being banned, but continue to repeat lies and and spread their false and defamatory narrative.

  • Reddit @lemmy.ml
    Corgana @startrek.website

    Reddit will lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says

    arstechnica.com /gadgets/2025/02/reddit-plans-to-lock-some-content-behind-a-paywall-this-year-ceo-says/
  • Technology @beehaw.org
    Corgana @startrek.website

    Twitter front-end Nitter dies as Musk wins war against third-party services

    arstechnica.com /tech-policy/2024/02/twitter-front-end-nitter-dies-as-musk-wins-war-against-third-party-services/
  • Technology @beehaw.org
    Corgana @startrek.website

    FCC plans shutdown of Affordable Connectivity Program as GOP withholds funding

    arstechnica.com /tech-policy/2024/01/fcc-to-halt-sign-ups-for-internet-discounts-as-republicans-threaten-funding/