/c/TenFoward: Your home-away-from-home for all things Star Trek!
Re-route power to the shields, emit a tachyon pulse through the deflector, and post all the nonsense you want. Within reason of course.
~ 1. No bigotry. This is a Star Trek community. Remember that diversity and coexistence are Star Trek values. Any post/comments that are racist, anti-LGBT, or generally "othering" of a group will result in removal/ban.
~ 2. Keep it civil. Disagreements will happen both on lore and preferences. That's okay! Just don't let it make you forget that the person you are talking to is also a person.
~ 3. Use spoiler tags. This applies to any episodes that have dropped within 3 months prior of your posting. After that it's free game.
~ 4. Keep it Trek related. This one is kind of a gimme but keep as on topic as possible.
~ 5. Keep posts to a limit. We all love Star Trek stuff but 3-4 posts in an hour is plenty enough.
~ 6. Try to not repost. Mistakes happen, we get it! But try to not repost anything from within the past 1-2 months.
~ 7. No General AI Art. Posts of simple AI art do not 'inspire jamaharon'
~ 8. No Political Upheaval. Political commentary is allowed, but please keep discussions civil. Read here for our community's expectations.
Fun will now commence.
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@jawa21@startrek.website for realizing that the line used to be "want to be added to the sidebar?" and capitalized on it. Congratulations and welcome to the sidebar. Stamets is both ashamed and proud.
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Since I could not find a decent quality template for this, I made my own: https://feddit.org/pictrs/image/140229bd-a85b-4b5e-bcf7-2547bd35ca66.webp
Blocking people who cause you unnecessary grief is always the right move. Their energysuck is not worth it.
I only have a handful of blocked individuals and don't get much negativity. I often wonder if it's because I am using lemmynsfw as my instance. π€
I generally only block people who clearly are antagonizing for the sake of being antagonistic or are so far up their own ass, there is no chance of ever pulling them out of it so it's not worth it to even have them visible.
If I blocked everyone or everything that I didn't completely agree with, there would be so, so much shit I would never see.
Well, I don't block every mod simply for being a mod. Just the toxic ones. So you are safe
...for now
I'll try not to get any toxic Yar Tar on you
TIL that Janeway is a mod... (based on the trail of bodies she leaves behind her?)
We are the Borg. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Resistance is futile.
I am the Janeway. I will add your drones to my crew and parts to my ship. Please resist, or else this won't be any fun!? βΊοΈ
Seven is a starfleet captain now soβ¦.
Why are you a mod?
I was asked, and I love Trek, and I love Trek memes
My blocklist is crazy long since I block all collaborators and changelings. Also anyone talking like a Romulan or anyone who speaks without honor...straight to the blocklist.
Teft, his block list long.
Jolan truβ¦
β¦I meanβ¦ how about some root beer, itβs deeeelicious!
Your ears are looking awful pointy wise_pancake...
Thatβs because I was just practicing an Andorian play pretending to be a Romulan! Iβm still in costume you see. A Romulan would never partake in leisure activities with an Andorian, therefore I must be human.
I have to use the lavatory now, but after I come back maybe you would like to discuss your⦠our plans in the neutral zone?
My block list grew slower once Voyager implemented user tagging. Most of what gets blocked now is porn stuff. I don't mind it existing (and have an account just for that), but there's certain stuff that just isn't my bag, baby.
I didn't know about tagging until just now. How do you use it? Do you tag profiles so you ignore them instead of blocking?
Long press a username and select edit tag:
Hopefully I captured both the rage and panda lol.
And yeah, I'll tag people as trolls/agitators, bigots, headline bots (even if there's a real person behind the account), [insert political label here], etc. I'll still block if I feel the need to, but a nice yellow and black "warning" tag lets me know to just not engage, and why.
Edit: you may need to go into settings -> user tags and enable them first.
Haha I think you got it π that's a good idea. I normally don't pay too much attention to users, but I should start doing that
I figure you are asking about Voyager, but for any Thunder users reading this thread: longpress a comment > user > add user label
Reasonable. It lowers the chance of ending up in an argument with someone who will use vindictive mod action as part of their toxic behavior.
Well, you know. In Starfleet, it's usually the admirals who screw things up for everyone else.
I remember the good old days, when the crazy ones were always commodores.
I have a lot of blocked communities, but only 5 blocked individuals.
Edit: Trump and Elon are filtered as well, as are two instances due to too many trolls and one because I donβt speak their language and they show up too often on /all.
I have zero blocked anything. Even if people are trolls, it's fun to see what everyone is saying.
I've even had constructive conversation on Hexbear before, I enjoy engaging with people with different opinions to me.
I've even had constructive conversation on Hexbear before
I'm guessing you didn't go against the flow?
One time I said it's fucked up that Romani children are taken away from primary school and married off to have children.
Within an hour, I had crazy fucks publicly screaming at me how I'm a nazi and advocating genocide. Meanwhile I was also getting private messages about how they're hoping I would suffer and some shit.
No I absolutely go against the flow, half of them shit on me and memed on me, and a few shared thoughtfully written messages explaning their point of view. The thoughtful messages are the constructive conversions I've had
To someone in the know, and who wants that, it's fine, and even enjoyable as you see. Whereas to a day-1 new user, it is far less so, if they wander into the likes of !Chapotraphouse@hexbear.net (edit: from All, without having read the sidebar text) or Lemmygrad.ml or say something that an admin at Lemmy.ml takes umbrage at, e.g. that Russia is attacking Ukraine, or that Uyghurs are being killed by China, etc.
My beef against it all is that it is opt-out by default, rather than opt-in, and I think it holds the Fediverse back from gaining new users who take one look at it and nope out, possibly never to return. Which since we are declining in number of active users, can be a real problem for us all, as it reduces our availability of content.
But even better than opt-out or opt-in, it would be nice to label it and leave the user to decide what they want to do about it. THAT'S the real problem imho: the lack of transparency as to what it is all about, affecting solely people who don't yet know - i.e. those of us who have climbed the ladder, will we do anything to help others who may follow?
But even better than opt-out or opt-in, it would be nice to label it and leave the user to decide what they want to do about it.
Yeah. This is the way we need to move toward.
Then each app can ship with it's own default list of wait-for-opt-in to show content, but can all hit the basics like NSFW and NSFL.
I'm gonna guess the non english one is feddit.org, that's always popping up on my feed.
Feddit.de The worst part is that their memes seem top notch. I just canβt get any of it.
Feddit.de shut down, and feddit.org replaced it.
Ah. Well, no issues with the new instance yet.
I have zero blocked communities, 11 blocked users, and... the entire lemmy.ml instance. :-)
I don't feel like I'm missing anything at all important.
Toxicity is relative. Cutting yourself off from people who are lashing out at others online is understandable... albeit you will be missing out on a lot of what the world has to offer doing that.
