If you're not familiar with how Lemmy/the Fediverse works, basically everything you read at StarTrek.website is hosted by us, even if the content originated elsewhere. That means we are responsible for everything here and we have to decide if we are comfortable boosting content from other instances.
If you're curious, the final straw here was learning that db0 explicitly allows hosting discussions about hurting people, which needless to say goes against our instance values and we simply don't have the manpower to moderate that volume of content incoming from their server to a degree that we feel meets our quality standards, which left defederating as the only viable option.
In keeping in line with past trends we're announcing this because is is a larger instance and don't want to leave any of the crew confused as to why something may be missing.
EDIT: Just to be crystal clear, this change ONLY affects users on THIS instance, if your account is on a federated instance then it doesn't apply to you and your experience will remain unchanged.
EDIT 2: Locking this because it's getting downvote brigaded by accounts from other instances which is preventing local accounts from seeing it. Local users feel free to DM me or another admin if you have questions.
So this user of yours will also be banned for not following the instance values?
https://startrek.website/u/kirk
Specifically not following authenticity, ie saying they're a different user but could be trying to increase the moderation you may need to do, and extremely disrespectful, unless that value only counts towards members of this instance.
This is being brought up specifically as while yes you are a small instance non of this apart from that user would bring traffic here you would need to moderate so it seems as if you are just doing this to cut off a large portion of the fediverse explicitly against principles those in star trek would be for.