Stamets

Thankies <3

I do too. Careful lol

It's pathetic. They tried the same thing again a few months ago when I made another post updating their sketchy behavior. They're so predictable that I used the phrase 'scorched earth', quoting VS as probably saying thats what he was going to do. Little did I know until after was that he did use that phrase. When I quoted him for it, he lost his fucking mind and had a meltdown in the matrix channel before leaving in a huff.

Stamets @lemmy.dbzer0.com 7d ago

I re-made Risa but on dbzero. !Risa@lemmy.dbzer0.com

I just havent been very active the past month or so due to some life shit

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Stamets @lemmy.dbzer0.com 7d ago

I mean I had screenshots ;_;

Stamets @lemmy.dbzer0.com 7d ago

Love ya homie <3

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Stamets @lemmy.dbzer0.com 7d ago

Well, I'm the one who caused the exodus from Startrek.website so... if you've got any questions, just ask.

The tl;dr was thus:

ST.W was made in response to redditors leaving reddit. It was created, and is run, by the same moderators who created and ran /r/StarTrek. Those moderators have a metric ton of drama surrounding them on reddit to the point that Star Trek fragmented into a hundred different subreddits to avoid being associated with what everyone was considering toxic moderation. Even toxic by reddit standards.

So when startrek.website started, the same behavior did too. Curtailing opinions is a big one. ValueSubtracted@Startrek.website, one of the admins, literally cannot help himself. He's a diehard defender of the newer treks, much like I am, but he takes any slight against the show as an active insult. Where I will only remove things that are categorically false or dogwhistle-type homophobia/racism, he will remove anything that is negative about the newer shows. He will tell you to stay on topic or be positive and refuses any negative coverage.

I first joined startrek.website as Stamets (although I was on lemmy before that) and started posting. Things were going well until I started seeing posts removed from their Star Trek meme community for nonsense reasons. I asked the admins what was up and they handwaved away the abuse from the moderator of that community (USS Burrito Truck) and their own abuse. So I left startrek.website and set up TenForward on lemmy.world (something I've left for Risa@lemmy.dbzero.com although I've been very inactive for the past month due to life). I sent messages to the other big posters who were active, friends of mine by that point, asking if they'd want to join me on TenForward. They said yes. By this point, nothing was really posted publicly by me save for a comment or two around the time I left. Those comments were removed/deleted.

The first couple weeks went by smoothly for the comm but not for me. ValueSubtracted started reaching out to several admins of different instances, asking them all to ban me from their instances. Those admins all reported it to me like "What is his problem?" and denied him. So I made a post on Mastodon saying that people should consider staying away from startrek.website due to some odd admin decisions. Within 24 hours I had gotten an email from my mastodon instance saying that there was a report against that post and I needed to clarify it with my admin. I gave her the information and she said the report had no merit and dismissed it. But it was clear who made the report.

We then started getting reports on TenForward for every tiny comment and every tiny post, accusing the community of causing cross instance harassment that was directed towards them. Most of these comments were passively talking about what was going on. There was no hate or harassment but the reports were coming from ValueSubtracted and were overloading the report section. Like maxing out the character count.

I asked him politely to stop several times and he kept doubling down and refusing to stop. It was at that point, realizing he wouldn't stop until he was forced to, that I made a giant post about it. Included all the screenshots of the private messages he sent me, the reports, the insane shit, everything. Proving conclusively that the level of harassment they had risen to was going across multiple websites.

That post was lost when I deleted my lemmy.world account. Or so I thought. Someone sent me the internet archive page for it yesterday. So if you're curious yourself...

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Stamets @lemmy.dbzer0.com 7d ago

No ice cream, alas. Wouldn't mind some though. But giggling? Yeah.

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Stamets @lemmy.dbzer0.com 1w ago

Its... maybe going. Its been so weird and stressful and shit. I don't know whats happening anymore lol

Stamets @lemmy.dbzer0.com 1w ago

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Stamets @lemmy.dbzer0.com 1w ago

Not yet. Wanna teach me again, daddy? <3

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Stamets @lemmy.dbzer0.com 1w ago

<3 Still not really back (moving again wee) but yeah lol

Stamets @lemmy.dbzer0.com 1w ago

Hey I'm on the pissbabies blocklist, don't look at me

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Stamets @lemmy.dbzer0.com 1w ago

I leave Lemmy for like... a month.

Stamets @lemmy.dbzer0.com 2w ago

Asimons04

Otherwise known as AdmiralPatrick here on lemmy.

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Stamets @lemmy.dbzer0.com 2w ago

It is kind of amusing to me how often these people who run their own instances force other people to accept their own ideology.

Admiral Patrick has ruined all credibility and has proven that he doesn't add value to the fediverse. He actively detracts from it by shaping instances other than his own into his own image. Without their consent.

I'm not saying this because I'm on that user list (fucking lol) but because it's just pathetic. Rimu is doing the same thing on Piefed, Kaplan tried to do something similar by pressuring other instances to blacklist Dbzer0... Meanwhile the Flotilla seems to be the only ones willing to be completely transparent about what is going on and actually have their users decide.

And for Admiral Patrick, considering the dipshit seems to love Star Trek so much, let me remind you of what someone far better than you once said who you seem to admire.

With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.

I'm adding on my own quote.

Fuck you.