I think the current methodology skews the data; consider that an instance federated with say, Hexbear, is probably going to have significantly more individual and community bans than an instance who only made 5-6 bans before recognizing the pattern and blocking the instance.

If the goal of this study is to see which places most aggressively moderate their content, you’re actually getting somewhat of the reverse.

Wow this looks incredible

Very interesting stuff! Defederations should count as a ban of all instance users, imo.

Why do you say that? They hold no power over us, nor us over them. They can’t control what we choose to store on our own hard drives.

Sharing here because the free speech instance censored it

Would be much more interesting to hear your own thoughts instead of just lazily pasting a link to people who are paid to be haters.

When did Trump or Biden attack the country of Iraq? Iraq is a US strategic partner and the US basically pays for their entire military. Even claiming Obama attacked the nation of Iraq is a big overreach, imo.

I agree but that has nothing to do with the “Nu” pejorative assigned to Kelvinverse films.

The reactionary racists and trolls started reapplying the term to the Black Lady show and pretended that crying a lot is somehow the same thing as Captain Kirk riding a motorcycle through a flaming ring.

no this is patrick

in my culture shitting on anything except the three kelvinverse films is a no no

they tried to take our word and they tried to take our culture away

California can still block the deal but I agree it does not look good right now.

At some point I think we will just have to accept that these old guard institutions are dinosaurs that will eventually die because they cannot adapt to the times. The supply of conservative media is already outstripping demand. And unless we get a genuine taxpayer funded fascist media people just aren’t going to watch.

I already started watching Doctor Who, does this mean I’ll need to add on a third franchise? Honestly this is getting in the way of me going through the entire Star Trek franchise for the 47th time.

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Great points all around. “Hope and Kindness” may seem like obvious cliche lessons, but one could argue that in today’s political climate they are as important as TOS calling out societal racism.

“Datalore” is another one that’s important, but it’s not very good. Most of the episode is Wesley running around trying to convince the grown-ups that Data is being weird and being ignored. It’s the one where Picard tells him to “shut up”.

And again in “The Menagerie”!

It says right in the meme “a lot of my masking is just making myself more palatable for other people”