Update
Dev is also upset at people who did not like their previous post and continues to insult everyone on the fediverse who does not a reddit like experience to attract investors (ie what the dev calls normies). As well as being completely unapologetic while also still attacking trans friendly instances by calling them a box of matches.
https://lemmy.world/post/49887929
You all have made it quite clear that you don’t want an explanation, or even a mea culpla, or to even try to understand the very real problem I’m trying to address for people who want a nicer place in the thrediverse.
You just want a punching bag.
Maybe when the DM harassment and death threats stop and someone wants to come in with a specific good faith question instead of a shotgun to my face, we’ll talk. Until then, fuck off.
Warmest regards,
Pat
But here’s an explainer for the communities:
I’ve already addressed users and such in the previous post, but I will cover communities here.
In short, think of those communities as a box of matches. In the right hands they’re perfectly safe and useful.
In the hands of a petulant child or batshit crazy adult, they’re dangerous and highly flammable.
Given that the average level of maturity of the loudest people here falls somewhere between “petulant child” and “batshit crazy adult”, giving them a box of matches is a very. bad. idea.
Some of those communities are also completely unmoderated.
Imo it’s mostly down to material conditions. Star Trek’s heyday was pre-2000. Trek fans are nerd types, many nerd types at the time got high-paying jobs in the tech or engineering sectors. People who are “doing well” generally tend to have petite-bourgeois politics due to a variety of things, but in particular investments and home ownership. See the modern “tech bro” who is usually some type of libertarian.
Further, those sectors often have ties to weapons manufacturers and the like. The people who design missiles at Raytheon are going to be imperialist dogs and a good number of them are going to be trekkies.