I’m beautiful and tough like a diamond…or beef jerky in a ball gown.
– Titus Andromedon
Ah, the War5oldier account is banned on its home instance and I guess they just didn’t re-use the name with another alt.
The only one of those that wasn’t in my blocks was raptor, but I guess I didn’t notice them as much. Comparing raptor to one of the others in that list, yeah, the posting is pretty similar.
Yep, I recall blocking at least Dan for the same reason as the other two. Not sure about the other one but can’t recall seeing posts from them anytime recently so probably did.
Are two of them “commander graves” and “war soldier”?
Because I noticed similar and blocked them ages ago
That gets PBS more exposure, sure, and that’s great because they put out quality content, but do they get paid for that? I’m genuinely curious here as I know little of how YT pays content creators. I’ve had a recurring monthly donation going for years now, and I just don’t yet understand if/how simply subscribing could replace even a portion of that.
How does that work? Does YT pay out to creators based on the subscriber count alone? I’ve only ever heard “like and subscribe to help fund this channel” mentioned when the videos are monetized (e.g ads or sponsors).
Or does PBS monetize their videos and uBlock just shields me from that?
Not that I don’t want this to be true since it’s an easy way to help fund them, but I am curious how (or if) this works.
We call them “turtles”.
Ingredients:
Prep:
Put the burger patty on a sheet of aluminum foil, salt/pepper to taste, and throw the onion slices, butter, and diced potatoes on and around it. Fold the rest of the foil around it to seal it up. Toss it on the hot coals of the campfire for about an hour. Eat right out of the foil.
These aren’t part of the “turtles”, but we also usually wrap an ear of corn in foil with some butter, salt, and pepper and throw it on the coals alongside them.
I never really got the humor there, lol, but I’m lamenting the loss of 80s TV because I had a lot of good Golden Girls posts since I’m finally watching it for the first time.
My (limited) understanding is that there’s no straightforward way to do that at least in Lemmy.
You mean the images going down fairly regularly?
users seeking to evangelize their beliefs across the Threadiverse
I mean, replace religion with communism/anarchism/whatever stupid -ism, and that’s like half the people here.
But also, any time you see anything “blogspot [dot] com” here, it’s 99.9999% always blogspam so I just report and block.
I guess what you’re calling “toxicity” is something I’ve dealt with more-or-less successfully by just blocking and switching instances. In fact, those are so far out of my mind I forgot to include them in my “see things through the eyes of a new user” experiment (I only unblocked communities/instances for that). But yeah, considering how many people, communities, and lemmy.ml + dbzer0 I’ve had to block and how much work that was and continues to be, I guess that does speak to a bigger problem that could be solved by better modding. I would hope some of the more egregious bad behavior only gets a pass because this place is so relatively small, but I fear that’s just me being naive.
Topic areas would be amazing and a much better onboarding experience than dumping you into the community list or /all. Topics you want to see, topics you never want to see, and maybe have it build a default subscription and/or default block list for those. And maybe a better “duplicate” detection system where there’s like 5 posts for the same non-story about a rich person farting and the Fediverse breaking out the torches and pitchforks over it. At least then you could slow-boil you way to the angry stuff that currently dominates the feed and give you a chance to turn those off rather than turning you away from the platform.
I would love to try Piefed because I keep hearing that it’s basically adding all the features Lemmy has needed forever, but TBH, my instance would have to migrate to Piefed or stand up a copy. I was on .world before I moved to startrek.website and the “feel” is just so much better here (general negativity of the overall Threadiverse notwithstanding). As you said, that’s primarily due to modding and giving the perma boot to the ones who don’t play well with others (as large as my block list is here, it’s significantly smaller than the blocklist I had on .world before I just gave up it as an instance).
Even Linux took decades to arrive at where it is at today
True. I’ll admit I’m impatient (my major remaining rough edge therapy has not yet conquered lol) but every time I see a brand new account coming in with their first post bitching about getting banned from Reddit it’s just a reminder that we’re not attracting the best and brightest here but rather the ones who have nowhere else to go. And they bring that behavior here and it just seems like it takes us further away from becoming a real alternative people actually want to go to. I’m going off on a tangent, I know, so I’ll stop here.
Lol, I guess the reply still shows up in the inbox. Even if I had noticed it was marked deleted, I wasn’t going to pass up the opportunity to recommend something Star Trek related 😆
Yeah, to pretty much all that.
My experience here is generally pretty pleasant, but it took a LOT of work blocking untold numbers of communities, users, and instances to get here. Other on-boarding difficulties aside (for less savvy users), it’s just a big ask to expect them to do all that work just to not be hit in the face with all the negativity and raging and dig deep for everything else. Reddit may have numerous flaws, but at least I can go to the front page and it doesn’t feel like I’m walking into the midst of an angry mob.
My two cents is basically this: We did this to ourselves here. Elsewhere, we might have blamed the algorithms for pushing rage-bait front and center, but here it’s 100% organic (unless there’s just a massive bot problem which I don’t have reason to suspect).
I started with “A Stitch in Time” but that was only because I just wanted to read it.
Here’s the resource someone shared with me for reading order: https://www.thetrekcollective.com/p/trek-lit-reading-order.html?m=1
I read several before seeing that but thankfully all the ones I read were marked as good starting points.
+1 for reading more. I took a break a few weeks ago, but I’ve been deep into the Star Trek books since last summer.
I only say there needs to be less because that’s all that seems to get pushed to the top. Ever since I saw the few posts asking how to get new users here, I’ve been trying to put myself in their shoes and look at things raw and unfiltered like a brand new user would see. Sadly, now that I’ve looked, I can’t un-see.
The rest of us just need to get on their level with all our other hobbies and interests.
100% agree :) But those don’t seem to get the rage clicks like all the bad news stuff and get buried even on scaled sort.
there aren’t other NWSL/MLS fans out here, but could you please stop doing drive-bys and downvoting all my articles?
I don’t know what either of those are, but I just went and threw some upvotes to some of your stuff because it was non-political / non-news. And one of them was highly downvoted for reasons I cannot possibly fathom.
I do! Though I’m fully a lurker there and only passively contribute with my upvotes since I haven’t biked or even e-biked in ages.
Love me some dad jokes lol. They’re about the only kind I’m good at.
Ugh, I wish I could add “reasons” for my user blocks as well as have the dates I blocked them available. Would make this easier. But yeah, Striker is in there.
I’m inclined to believe it’s part of the “group”. Every post I can see of it’s is a question which is the same thing seen with the others in the list here; none of them have a single post that uses a declarative statement as the post title. That’s more than a little sus given the context here.
Regardless, I tend to block accounts that I feel camp out and/or abuse the “ask” communities.