More cringy lore time!
Stormburg, also Stormboro or Stormborough, is the capital of the ice giant planet Moonlitter. It is an archology floating in the planet’s atmosphere. It is not open to the air like the cities on Welkinstead[1], since the atmosphere is not breathable. It is located in the eye of a perpetual cyclonic storm. No sunlight penetrates the deep clouds around it. The only natural light comes from the constant lightning from the surrounding storm clouds.
Why the capital was placed in such an inhospitable location has been lost to history. Unlike Welkinstead, Moonlitter itself has few exploitable resources, and the bulk of the population lives on the planet’s many moons. The location may have been chosen precisely because it did not favor any one moon, or perhaps to make life miserable for the politicians who have to live there.
Art and writeup by @early_riser@lemmy.world
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gasice giant referenced in a previous post ↩︎
That’s weird, the account that cross-posts here was banned. It always happened so quickly I thought they were a bot.
Lol, this account isn’t banned here? Anyways, nope not a bot I just have a pushbullet notification script attached to .ml’s RSS feed
Why am I cross-posting .ml content?
I cross-post from .ml to the nearest relevant non-.ml comm to reduce the influence of .ml comms and indirectly, the instance as a whole, to help vitilize non-.ml comms and make it an easier decision for other instance admins to defederate because one key reason I identified that admins don’t want to defederate is because .ml still has some very large comms and some active niche comms.
Some highlights from the link:
.ml admin, Nutomics continued transphobia https://lemmy.world/post/29222558 The original transphobic Comment from Nutomic: https://lemmy.world/post/18236068
“If you don’t support Russia then you just don’t understand geopolitics” ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/27352415
"Don’t worry guys, the Uyghur Genocide was REALLY just birth control! ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/30580167
“See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn’t count!!” ~ Davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/30673342
“NK is actually good and anything counter to that is Western propaganda!” ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/31595035
General negative sentiment to other instances who haven’t “seen the way” yet ~davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/27426510
And so so much documentation on clear heavy handed censorship and bias also on the link. So much I can’t even put them all here because this comment would be really long.
I believe the behavior of its admins (the main admins are Lemmy devs) does harm to the overall growth of the Lemmy-verse and maybe even the Thrediverse (since Lemmy kinda kicked off the Thrediverse) because of its association with the devs of Lemmy and their insistence to use .ml as their personal political platform to spread harmful propaganda
On the outside, bringing up Lemmy frequently leads to comments like “Lemmy? Isn’t that the place with a bunch of tankies?” Or “Tried Lemmy, but found it full of pro Russia crap so I left”. The best way forward from that I see is to either widely defederate from .ml like the rest of the Triad, or pressure them to put a fair and unbiased as possible admin team.
hmmm I could have sworn I saw a banned tag next to your username. Eh it’s not there now if it was before.
I think to some extent radicalism of whatever sort is inevitable on niche platforms like this. Just making an account on the fediverse is making an ideological statement that you reject the centralized social media platforms that the fediverse seeks to replace. But the right thing to do is vote with your feet. Block and defederate. That’s the strength of the fediverse. People who support that stuff have their corner and those of us who just want to look at cool pictures and talk about their weird OC’s can hang out somewhere else away from the nonsense.
I think that’s true and is how it works with regards to hex and grad, however the problem with .ml specifically is that the developers themselves head it and does what they do as covered in the previous comment. This gives Lemmy, and potentially the wider Threadiverse, an image problem that’s very hard to shake when trying convince people to come over here. Especially the average user.
What’s worse, few instances defederate from them because of potential concerns of damaging the working relationship with said developers. Some smaller instances do, but they’re also not stressing the software like a large instance does like .world
A fair point I suppose.
