As ValueSubtracted said, as far as we can tell, the problem is on Lemmy.world's side as we are not seeing any major disruptions with content from other instances. But we are looking into options on our end.
EDIT: We've made some adjustments that appear to be closing the gap
EDIE 2: The issue has been resolved
Defederation is the nuclear option. Until now we had removed any communities we weren't comfortable hosting, and treated users on a case-by-case basis based on how they behaved in our communities, which worked for a while but became untenable.
When we started this project the admin team felt that welcoming outsiders into our (wholesome, sane) Star Trek communities was the net-positive action. But as I said it became too much to handle so we unfortunately had to cut the cord.
This update should increase the thermal capacity of your takes by .05%
I have no idea, but in defense of the devs, there's a reason they are calling it version 0.19 and not 0.5 or "1.0" There's a lot to do, but look at projects like Mastodon a year ago vs today and they've made some dramatic improvements in terms of polish and usability.
Personally I think it's a good thing Lemmy isn't more popular right now, because there's no way it could absorb Reddit levels of users in a healthy way.
Good to know, thanks! I added it to the post.
Thanks for the kind words, I was just throwing random ideas out there to get juices flowing about wiki potential.
Perhaps we should rename the instance to "Stamets' no bloody A, B, C or D-tier meme emporium and other minor associated Star Trek communities"
True, but if Meta (or anyone) wanted to "directly" get that data, it would be as trivial as setting up an instance on something as small as a Raspberry Pi and subscribing to a community here. We would have no way of knowing who it is or stopping them. Defederation is a tool to prevent brigading, not lurking.
If (if) Meta wanted to set a lemmy-style platform, preemptively defederating from it would be a largely symbolic gesture. Doesn't mean it's not worth doing, like I said we'll cross that bridge if and when it becomes relevant.
why the fuck do I have to put a URL in order to post.
You do not
StarTrek.website typically sees 1-2 (approved) registrations per day. We have 12 approved in the past 48 hours.