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Corgana

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/r/StarTrek founder and primary steward from 2008-2021

Currently on the board of directors for StarTrek.website

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Moderation on the Feviderse is different than on commercial platforms because it’s context-dependent instead of rules-dependent. That means that a user accout (bot or otherwise) that does not contribute to the spirit of a community will not be welcomed.

There is largely no incentive to run an LLM that is a constructive member of a community, bots are built to push an agenda, product, or exhibit generally disruptive behavior. Those things are unwelcome in spaces built for discussion. So mods/admins don’t need to know “how to identify a bot”, they need to know "how to identify unwanted behavior".

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I don’t disagree at all, but I also think it’s important to keep the conversation focused on the benefits. eg: “I’m happy to trade Reddit’s UI for a platform that doesn’t encourage toxic behavior” (and so on).

EDIT: The threadiverse will not ever be Reddit and we won’t be able to please everyone, I think it’s important to portray confidence in the platform and not get bogged down defending the (less important) flaws.

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Great image, saving that. Stuff like Lemmy will need to be brought up repeatedly for it to stick in people’s minds and an image post makes that easier.

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Upvoted! I like that this is not in a RedditAlternatives community or anything.

EDIT: had to laugh at this comment:

“this site is a bit confusing, but the bigger deal breaker is the ‘not for profit’ angle for me.”

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People are saying that Renegdes is actually the only canonical Star Trek

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When the show with the Black lady aired a lot of “”“longtime fans”“” and YouTubers decreed that it was “not canon” because of XYZ…

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you can skip the signature part (i signed it with a fake name cornelius flycatcher)

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You’re right that it’s nothing big, but the kind of people super into purity tests tend to congregate on the fediverse (which I find a little ironic but am also happy to have some people around who accept no compromises).

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