James R Kirk - he was posting like an impartial observer on Fediverse vs Disinformation @db0 in a breakdown of the ban list thread. Things like:

The dev posted a response in c/Tesseract but you're mostly correct. They wanted to make it easier for like minded future admins to be able to spin up a Lemmy instance without having to know all of the lore.

Then when people called him out he started becoming a frothing troll.

Pretty sure the dude saying how everyone who blew up over the shitlist was doing illegal shit is one too

looks like cardboardcruncher6400 is another, He's basically manifestoing all over the shitpost thread

Just coming back to confirm that's an AP account lol

I would say they've brought the fediverse together like never before. I don't think this many people have agreed on a single thing in the history of fedi.

Can't have your little kingdom when it's not fractured from the whole.

I just think it’s hilarious that instead of “saving” the fediverse they fractured it.

I dunno. The fediverse seems mostly united against admiralpatrick and his alts.

Same comm, just scroll down a bit.

Lemmy.world isn’t going to take action against his account.

Of course not. He's basically jordanlund if he knew how to code.

Report to your nearest Starfleet officer if you're aware of anyone queer or has communist sympathies, Admiral Patrick McCarthy needs your support to Make Lemmy Reddit Again

Yeah, my opinion of leave other people the fuck alone was too extreme, got me on the list, which i found hilarious.

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...

And much respect to them for how they handled this/themselves.

Continuation for sure.

Boost.

GIFs often fail to upload due to size restrictions of the instances we use. When that happens, I upload to imgur or catbox and embed the link instead.

I've noticed that when you copy-paste a gif it ends up with only the first frame as a still image, but if you actually save it as a .gif file and then upload it, it works.

This is with either the default web UI or Voyager, BTW.

Voyager

You can just link to a GIPHY image using the !(link) markdown syntax.

Ex: Terminator

God, Stamets must be sitting there giggling into their icecream rn. Canary in the coal mine

Stamets! That’s who I was thinking of.

Damn, Lemmy needs a c/LemmyDrama comm, I can't keep up