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Paramount is objectively the better brand, going with SkyDance feels like a waste.

You and I may see it that way, but Reddit does not consider it a different situation. And by Reddit I mean not only the algorithms that determine spam, but a non-insignificant amount of users at large that consistently reported small publications as spam.

As a former mod of a large community I hated that small writers and creators bloggers were lumped in with the spammers. You want to know why Reddit became generic and boring? Why the internet doesn't feel boundless and weird anymore? Because over time only large established websites were permitted to be linked to without getting immediately IP banned.

When /r/StarTrek was small and I was trying to grow it, I invited several Trek bloggers I liked to post their writings. These weren't "blogspam", they were just people who just loved writing. They would always engage with the community in the comments under their posts. Over time they all were banned and their domains were blocked from being shared by any account on Reddit.

I agree with you that the system is working "as intended" but the intent sure feels a lot like forcing anyone making OC to be platform-locked to Reddit or risk having their entire domains be labeled as "spam".

I was mod of /r/StarTrek for a decade and I have yet to see a single situation where a vague "bad writing" complaint wasn't serving as cover for a (let's just say) less socially acceptable criticism.

If you're being honest about your feelings then my advice to you is be significantly more concrete with exactly what it is you are criticizing about Kurtzman, or people are going to assume you're obfuscating your true feelings.

Let me get this straight, Paramount was recently purchased by the Ellisons yet you feel the greatest threat to Star Trek is... Alex Kurtzman? Wait wait, let me guess, you don't like how political Star Trek suddenly became this past decade?

I always liked this one. It's probably a top three Chakotay episode for me, not that that's saying a lot. I always love the trope of "not sure if this is the top level of reality" like TNG's Frame of Mind.

Is this a Piefed.social question, or Piefed (the software) question? If it's the latter, I think any tools that allow administrators to identify bots/bot-like accounts are useful. If it's the former, I say ban 'em all and keep the instance authentic (while acknowledging that my account is from elsewhere).

That's disappointing, the theater I went too was almost too loud at times but the boomings and rumblings of the Genesis Planet tearing itself apart were really crazy.

Fake fans, imo. Transporters exist.

The events of Star Trek haven't taken place yet, but The Historical Documents aired long before that. Presumably some kind of time vortex brought them to us.

I tried out Bazzite with an Nvidia 40-series card last year and performance was the same as Windows for everything I tested

All things being equal I would go with AMD too, but if I was OP I certainly wouldn't turn down a good deal on an Nvidia card if one presented itself.

Yes! We have that too. It's so addicting to get sucked into every time I come across it.