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

Consider this a friendly reminder to yourself and all users here that if you see a user behaving in a way you just plain don’t like, (even if it’s on another instance) don’t hesitate to report it to us. The admin team is extremely aggressive with blocks and bans. We want this instance to be a quiet, thoughtful, and fun entry point to the Fediverse. And we want our users to be happy.

That said I understand the need for a break! I’ll miss your presence and as ValueSubtracted said we’ll keep the antimatter inducers uh, er- inducing.

The timing definitely could have been better. But maybe now more people have seen it?

(Thank you!🙏)

Currently stalled but we’re working on it.

Uh, everything’s under control. Situation normal, everything’s perfectly all right now. We’re fine… We’re all fine here now. Thank you.

How are you?

If we go “by the book” like Lieutenant Saavik, hours could seem like days.

But seriously it will take days.

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

You know, if Spock were here, he’d say that you were an irrational, illogical human being by taking on a mission like this.

…Sounds like fun!

After all, any instance can pickup some of those and isn’t representative of the instance as a whole.

I think I speak for the whole admin team that we actually do hold instance owners responsible for the communities they host, the same way we hold Reddit (the company) responsible for the communities they choose to host. That said, we made the decision that (for now) the best practice for handling large general purpose instances like .world or .ml is to take a scalpel approach until such a time comes that the Threadiverse is more resilient.

While ostensibly a “general purpose” instance, users on Hexbear had a tendency to come to our hosted communities and aggressively push propaganda, unfairly burdening our mods, so it was a much easier decision to de-federate. We actually did announce that one because of their size.

(Also FYI in case you’re not aware you are posting form lemmy.world so just to be clear none of these policies apply to your current account!)

EDIT: I also think it might be useful to highlight that we never take actions against other instances, we take actions for our users/communities.

Big oof.

Would you like the admins to permaban them?

Looking into this, btw

It’s been a long road, but this issue is finally resolved.

We’re not opposed to hosting non-Star Trek communities as long as they adhere to instance guidelines, but before you move you should know that the federation gap with .world is closing and should be finally caught up before the end of the week.

Time for startrek.website/c/theymightbegiants?

No worries at all, we want to make sure we’re providing a fast and reliable (well, as fast and reliable as is possible with beta software at least!) experience. Like I said I don’t notice .world missing very much but that doesn’t mean we don’t realize the value their communities provide to the overall ecosystem.