You don’t feel the dissonance if you’re too dumb to connect the dots taps head

I’ve never met a male OR female server! I’ve met plenty running Ubuntu, though

To be specific, it’s a prank. It’s designed to fool the gullible and make them feel stupid when they find out the truth

I’ve seen girls use this pickup line. Cis ones!

Oh you mean like a benzite

He was also part of the pedo sub’s mod team

Yes, I agree that most users were unaware, but most users also follow the leader-y types who have the strong opinions. Those three repost farmers worked together to move all the content over, and anyone who investigated was given the post with the transphobia claim as a reason. This locked in the network effect that made most people move over to Ten Forward, with little outcry.

ST.W did have legitimate moderation problems, but the problems with the Ten Forward clique are much worse.

The comic is about how true crime is a common women’s interest

Startrek.website was never primarily local traffic. It used to be mostly lemmy.world users posting Star Trek content to the Star Trek communities, a lot like dullsters.net, but less extreme.

The off-instance users mostly stopped posting there and moved to Ten Forward, because of that clique’s post.

A cisgender repost farmer made a post accusing the admins of being transphobic with absolutely zero evidence, and got the other repost farmers to move with him to a community on lemmy.world. He and his friends are now some of Lemmy’s biggest power mods, with influence across dozens of popular communities. The Star Trek instance had discussion forums, lore, news, and casual conversation about Trek in addition to memes. Now people only use the .world and dbzero meme communities.

I gotta say, Xi’s version is way more effective than Donald’s

The devs can make accounts on a less controversial instance if they want their news to be heard by the rest of us

That’s because no celebrities or influencers have moved to the fediverse.

George Takei

Piefed.ca would be a great candidate, they have a nonprofit foundation or something dedicated to this kind of stuff

I send my friends memes. They ask “Muad’dib, where do you get these great memes?” I say I get my great memes from Lemmy. They instantly lose interest, because Lemmy is full of tankies and kinphobes

But there’s barely any content here, especially outside of leftist politics and GNU/Linux

We used to have a thriving Star Trek instance before that one guy made that one post

If you want to play Minecraft with friends, you need to find a server. Still the most popular game in the world.

If we defederate Hexbear and ml, that will go some of the way to easing those bad experiences for new users

Hexbear is nothing like a leftist MAGA rally. It’s more like a MAGA rally.

Kill the part of yourself that cringes