• UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      I stopped paying attention to it right around the time that the “dae le section 31 adults in the room getting shit done amirite” and “dae le epic terran empire humanity fuck yea amirite” glazers started shaping the discourse as they did on Reddit.

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          mostly Leftist because of the political stuff on Star Trek

          Decades of festering contrarianism and “bad guys are cool actually” ideology in the Trek fandom made far too many people seem somehow embarrassed by the idea of a brighter future in the setting, or that the Federation was actually cool and good and didn’t need to have edgy murderfucking black ops “Adults In The Room” no matter how much Rick Berman pushed the idea because he was always a piece of shit.

          Those toxic fans are numerous enough that I lost count of how many “USS AYN RANDs” I saw flying around Star Trek Online. The zone chat in Earth Spacedock is basically /pol/, 24/7.

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      they’ve defederated with hexbear and i think it’s significant because i think that it was independent of the reddit userbase diaspora instances initially and it had a significant userbase of its own, or atleast bigger that most.

      all of the other smaller instances either went inactive or merged into one of the huge instances that were filled up by the reddit refugees and i think that the startrek instance will do something similar since their activity has started to flat line slightly. those huge instances are hellbent on drowning out leftist views and my experience teaches me that they’re not going to idly sit by and leave us alone next to their golden echo chambers.