Please be aware that comment violates our instance rules, we are assuming it is some kind of misguided joke. Please try to be more respectful in the future.

I…don’t know that there’s much of any real point to this post. I don’t know a lot of people who watch Trek and wanted to share

Literally the point of this entire instance :)

It appears that perhaps a transporter accident has duplicated this post…

Might as well had been a million, I don’t think it could have gone better! ❤️

I have no idea where you’re seeing a million, I’m seeing 1,300. But that’s still very high for the fediverse! And it’s definitely the highest we’ve ever had in one of our local communities.

Not to the American East Coast😅(I added a sticky comment clarifying)

First of all I agree, but also on that note- we have actually been in touch with the writer for that episode (Eric Anthony Glover) about a possible AMA in the future as well. But first we want to see how this one goes!

To be clear, this is for 4pm EST

This is the thread for questions!

Sexism violates our instance principles, I know you’re a regular here so please edit your comment (being Australian is not a excuse here).

In case anyone else is as confused as I was: yes, we are defederated from Hexbear.net. This image is simply hosted there.

What you call “fragmentation” is perhaps better described as “multiple moderation philosophies applied to the same topic” and is actually a fundamental aspect of the ActivityPub protocol, which was designed above all else to create platforms that resist centralization.

I’m not saying you’re wrong to dislike it, but it is definitionally impossible to have both decentralization and centralization at the same time.

You’ve taken my words and twisted their meaning to create an antisocial strawman to attack. I will not engage.

That said: if you are someone who views the power instance administrators have over their instances to be “tyrannical”, then ActivityPub —a protocol which by design decentralizes power away from a CEO and into the diverse hands of instance owners— is probably not the protocol for the sort of platform you’re looking for.

Allowing Lemmygrad to have it’s own “books” community looks like a feature to me, not a problem. The terminally online tend to overpower any other conversation. IMO, we should work to preserve a diversity of perspectives. If all discussions are forced to be centralized we’ve just recreated Reddit with extra steps.

I am with you as a user, but also an instance administrator. Forcing our hosted communities together with federated communities would take away nearly all motivation I have to host an instance in the first place.

The users who post in the “one big community” are the users who want their posts to get the most views. Personally speaking, I generally do not want to be a part of a community full of those kind of people (with the exception of if I have a tech support question or similar).

Not everyone wants to be in the most popular space, this “feature” essentially forces everyone together. I believe the social web thrives with a diversity of approaches to community structure.

Allowing /c/anti_thing to direct all of their users to posts in /c/thing is a bad idea.

Personally I have never viewed the “separation problem” as a problem, but the single largest benefit of federation/decentralization.