If you're not familiar with how Lemmy/the Fediverse works, basically everything you read at StarTrek.website is hosted by us, even if the content originated elsewhere. That means we are responsible for everything here and we have to decide if we are comfortable boosting content from other instances.
If you're curious, the final straw here was learning that db0 explicitly allows hosting discussions about hurting people, which needless to say goes against our instance values and we simply don't have the manpower to moderate that volume of content incoming from their server to a degree that we feel meets our quality standards, which left defederating as the only viable option.
In keeping in line with past trends we're announcing this because is is a larger instance and don't want to leave any of the crew confused as to why something may be missing.
EDIT: Just to be crystal clear, this change ONLY affects users on THIS instance, if your account is on a federated instance then it doesn't apply to you and your experience will remain unchanged.
EDIT 2: Locking this because it's getting downvote brigaded by accounts from other instances which is preventing local accounts from seeing it. Local users feel free to DM me or another admin if you have questions.
Isn't that exactly what you're doing? Generating drama?
No proof or reasoning, while saying "Nah don't look at me I'm not involved" while doing a thing thats creating drama?
I have to assume this is related to the tesseract debacle, and I have to assume that this sort of drama generation - which is what this post is - will continue from startrek.website now.
I guess I'll go elsewhere for my trek themed lurking.
No absolutely not, this will be the only post on the topic and just to be clear anyone caught linking to other instances or gossiping or spreading drama will be banned permanently without hesitation.
I'm going to have to disagree, your post is baseless and does nothing but continue the drama. These are the same baseless claims/excuses for tesseract, which also included extremely questionable blocks.
This is just tesseract pt 4 subsection 8, and I'm just not interested. You are right that this will be the only post on the topic that I see though, as I'll be adding startrek.website to my personal block list.
Enjoy your day.