cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/shit/p/1289985/you-know-it-s-gonna-be-hell-when-the-ifixit-tutorial-says-to-breathe-deeply

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1. Mystery- it keeps the audience guessing as to when and where it takes place and how it fits the wider continuity. Will it end with some big reveal? Who knows

2. It dares to explore questions no other Trek series would, like what would we do if a giant bar of soap was heading for our planet? What would we do if a giant popcorn kernel was heading towards our planet? What would we do if a giant booger was heading toward our planet?

3. The characters show such ingenuity, always throwing the right object at the problem on the third try, just in the knick of time when only two options are left

4. Like holodeck stories? The whole second season takes place on the holodeck, where anything can happen. We got dinosaurs, we got underwater rescue missions, we got smiley tribbles!

5. The klingon farmer looks like a klingon, not whatever they had in Discovery

6. While Prodigy had holographic Janeway and Starfleet Academy had Nala, Scouts has no teacher or mentor. Three children are apparently training themselves with no adult supervision. There's more uncertainty when they're all on their own

7. One of the villains wears a Starfleet uniform. What a twist. A fellow starfleet member is trying to sabotage our heroes and we don't see him punished at all. Corruption. Intrigue.

8. No complicated multi-episide arcs to keep track of. Just the same story over and over every episode. You can watch any random episode and not feel lost at all. The characters don't even have complex personalities or backstories to remember

9. There's a Vulcan with a mechanical arm like Doctor Octopus. The one non-human main character is both a Vulcan AND a cyborg

That's it. That's the thread.

Bye

You crazies won and proved me wrong. The fediverse isn't worth saving after all.

Over the course of the last several days, I have received a constant stream of harassing messages, death threats, and threats of doxxing over DM, Matrix, Github, and Codeberg. All of it instigated and eggged on by another instance's top admin. This is unacceptable for all of the reasons in the world, and while I won't give you the personal satisfaction of having won, you've definitely proven me wrong about the fediverse being something that even can be saved from itself.

Even people around here I'd interacted with positively for years and had grown to respect because they seemed level headed and above the immature and sociopathic bullshit that dominates this platform showed their true selves. That completely shattered any and all illusions I had that this place has a hidden core of users that I should try to make more visible amongst all the rage, rage baiting, propaganda, harassment, rumor mongering, trolls, conspiracies, purity testing, and violent rhetoric.

Like many of the rational people before me who called this place home, I'm done with this place.

I tried to carve out a space where those people and other rougher edges were not drowning out niche communities and hobbies and where people who choose to use the platform to harass others were also out of sight, out of mind. Apparently only three people who aren't me actually want a place that's not just a circle-jerk of rage and hate. Thus sayeth the mob.

Then you have entire instances whose admins call for the death of others, harass other users, and lead harassment, brigading, and DARVO campaigns against those who dare call out their bullshit or decide to disassociate themselves and their work from them.

Lemmy.World was so close to doing the right thing after instance-that-will-not-be named's admins were calling for the death of LW's admins while spreading rumours and labeling others in such a way that painted them as targets for murder. All of that, mind you, with absoultey no evidence other than specuation and their own cooked-up conspiracies about modlog actions or taking and twisting things wildly out of context to fit their made-up narratives so they had someone to say they 'caught' and should be killed.

.world was on the precipice of doing the right thing and disaccociating themselves from that psychotic shit show, but silently dropped the issue and carried on as usual after wringing their hands for maybe two weeks.

"We have to worry about the optics or the politics of it." they probably said.

Bullshit.

I'm one person and have held my fucking ground, mostly with dignity and grace, in the heat of my own shitstorm of trying to disaccociate from the extremist elements of the fediverse. If I can stand up for what's right and deal with the blowback, so can you.

Fuck lemmy world's admin team for condoning that behavior and letting the human skidmark db0 DARVO his way out of the situation while brigading with his army of malcontents whom he wields like a cult leader. He knows exactly what he is doing, and you all continue to allow him to get away with it.

Nah, fuck this whole place. I've let too many things fall by the wayside IRL because of dealing with all this fediverse bullshit and trying to give it the slightest bit of polish both visually and atmospherically. Mythbusters may have proven that you can, in fact, polish a turd, but at the end of the day, it's still a shiny ball of shit.

For the few people left who didn't turn out to be psychotic, I'll think of you from time to time when recalling something you've posted or commented that genuinely made me laugh, made me think, or otherwise put a smile on my face or in my heart.

Everyone else, though, enjoy your toxic, xenophobic, knee-jerk-to-violence, purity-testing, and harassing-anyone-who-doesn't-fall-in-line cess pit. One day you, too, will do or say something that doesn't toe the line and you'll be right where I am.

P.S. Rimu, you owe me a beer. No one is talking about the Piefed vote quotas anymore, so you're welcome.

EDIT: forgot to add:

EDIT2:

Removed the link to the original message because the douche included a Javascript on the page to DDOS Dbzero0

this was like three to seventeen Great Bean Panics ago, it was a variation of the "up at 2am looking for those beans" meme with some kind of shortened dog with two legs scrummaging around with laser eyes. if it counts i think it was like a golden retriever or a yellow lab.

i cannot describe how important it is that i see this meme again.

i require it.