Disney is such a massive conglomerate at this point, I don’t even know what that vibe would be
Safe and unchallenging. Entertaining without much depth that you forget about shortly after.
To be clear I agree with you and don't think this is happening with Who, just that it is a thing to look out for.
Funny how the platform still runs on their unpaid labor, isn’t it?
Something I learned during the Vaxxhappened protest is just how many moderators are perfectly content to do these "jobs". I found it honestly very sad how many of these what are ostensibly "community leaders" will happily acquiescence to the ~~demands~~ desires of the company as long as they can continue to do the job.
Don't get me wrong I have a lot of sympathy for many of the moderators there who care deeply about their communities and providing a welcoming experience and feel stuck to Reddit, but until more of them grow a spine and idk, move to Lemmy or something like the top r/startrek and r/daystrominstaitute mods did (not me to be clear) then nothing of substance will change there. There is a seeming endless supply of people willing to clean up Reddit for free.
You're not going to find a sympathetic ear from the mods of this community (believe me I've tried, oh have I tried) but I understand where you're coming from and agree. The Lemmy network in general is comprised of a lot of people who are here (I'm sorry to say) because they are too poorly socialized even for reddit, and there are too few mods/admins in the overall network are who know what it means to be the adult in the room. The result is that most places with authentic activity are too toxic for "normies" and the places willing to enforce something as simple as good manners are quieter.
I still believe a critical mass of more ah, well-adjusted people can improve the culture, but that day gets further and further away as long as the existing culture remains in the state it is in.
Maybe we didn't achieve our goals in the way we set out to do, but we made a lot of friends (decals) along the way.
For future reference:
I never got much into the comics, anyone with experience know if these are a good place to start?
Lol "theme party" is great! A vision of the fediverse as multiple concurrent theme parties is something I can get behind.
Hey Blaze I know you're a good dude and I highly respect your efforts in spreading Lemmy, I feel I should tell you with kindness that you have fallen for bait. The OP of that post has been banned (for over a year) for multiple violations (that I won't discuss publicly because we don't want to encourage harassment) and was given multiple warnings beforehand.
Since being banned, OP has been left alone, but created and continues to repeat a false narrative that they are a victim of abuse by one of our admins. They have spread this lie to multiple platforms (I will not link to them) in an ongoing campaign. Yes, OP considers reporting of their posts to be abuse (which is absurd on it's face) but there has been zero communication publicly or privately since the ban.
I strongly encourage you to read through that post you linked and try to find an actual instance where OP was "abused". They have been left alone since being banned, but continue to repeat lies and and spread their false and defamatory narrative.
"The decentralized web" ...so... "the web"? Do they not realize literally anyone, even extremists, can make a Lemmy instance with spare parts and a wifi connection?
"Left wing extremists have been showing substantial activity on the website that was literally built for that type of content" What's next? They "investigate" the amount of Trekkie related activity on StarTrek.website?
I think a far more interesting research subject is looking into the number of ostensibly non-extremist instances are hosting extremist content by virtue of federation.