why so much Star Trek?
why is like 30% of the content on Lemmy star trek related? is it just a side effect of the particular communities I'm in or is it an actual platform-wide thing?
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why is like 30% of the content on Lemmy star trek related? is it just a side effect of the particular communities I'm in or is it an actual platform-wide thing?
Star Trek is a franchise about a bunch of nerds striving to find a "better way" to run society
Lemmy is a platform populated by a bunch of nerds striving to find a "better way" to run social media
Not surprising that there's overlap
I don't know, but I fucking love it.
If you've got a problem with it, I suggest watching some more Star Trek.
don't have a problem with it it's just weird that there is so much Star Trek focused content on communities that have absolutely nothing to do with it
It's all Linux, Star Trek, and extremely niche porn categories.
And commies
Mmmm. I love me some Trekommie porn.
It's even in Ask Lemmy now
the venn diagram of star trek fans and terminally online Linux nerds that gravitate towards lemmy is basically a circle
... the unit circle, in fact! In this talk, I will explain how the Fediverse and rhe Federation are analagous constructs in ...
where is everybody going?
It helps to keep us Engaged
Star Trek is popular among left-wing turbonerds, aka Lemmys primary demographic. There was also a big push to join Lemmy on r/StarTrek after Reddits API controversy.
It’s almost as if lemmy itself is a United Federation of Servers 🤔
you’re posting this on literally the federation
There either a lot of Trekkies, or a few that post a lot of content. Either way, I get a chuckle, even if Star Trek isn't my thing.
We need someone to post content for our endless doom scrolling, right?
I try to contribute but I’m often too busy to make the memes I dream
I love the mods and regulars on /c/tenforward, it’s a great subnet.
I wish I saw that much Star Trek content.
Block Linux and pervy anime and you'll see a lot more star trek.
I would also like more pervy anime.
Guys, am I doing Lemmy wrong?
What about pervy Linux?
I slip on my fingerless hacker gloves, open my terminal emulator and give it the pipe
|If you like pervy anime, star trek and speak German you're home.
c/tenforward
I'm already subscribed there :)
You on risa too?
Ah shi- that's the one I was missing. New account who dis and all. Thank you lol
And don't forget about startrek.website
There's an entire Star Trek instance (startrek.website) that followed the /r/daystrominstitute community from reddit during the Exodus.
Well I guess that explains why that instance has all the turbo pedantic Trekkies. /c/tenforward on lemmy world is where the fun fans are.
There's a big star trek instance.
So when people migrated en masse a year ago, those were the already established communities, except like lemmy.ml stuff.
Basically, they're from a long time ago in a fediverse far, far away.
The main Star Trek meme subreddit even has a stickied thread that directs people to Lemmy:
Hey, watch it buddy
You're absolutely right, there should be more Stargate, Firefly, and Babylon 5 content.
Indeed
So say we all!
I’m currently watching SG1 while drinking whisky out of a Starfleet cup. More of all the sci fi and they can all exist together!
Man, it seems like it might fall to me to start carrying the torch for Farscape on this platform.
I know some of you weirdos prefer your scifi full of Muppets and bondage gear.
Funny you should mention Farscape, I've only now started watching it (I somehow missed it when it came out). I still prefer Vala Mal Doran, but I'll take any show with Claudia Black.
Haha I had a similar experience this year. I knew of Farscape when it was airing, but I was much more of a Stargate fan in my teens. Saw it was streaming earlier this year and proceeded through 2 seasons and some change before it was made unavailable on the streaming platform I was using. I need to obtain the rest of the series so I can begin cranking out the memes.
To be clear, the weirdos who prefer their sci Fi with Muppets and bondage gear is me. I'm weirdos.
All classics, but The Expanse has them beat.
Can confirm.
That's what I signed up for.
Star Trek is a utopia. Why wouldn't we wish to live there?
I agree. Star Trek.
It's one of my favourite organic Lemmy things
I started watching the show because of the Star Trek memes around here lol. Turns out I was a fan all along, who just never watched it before. Now I've watched TOS and TNG, I'm over halfway through Voyager and Lower Decks as well, and will probably start throwing in some DS9 soon. It's good stuff, especially if you like sci-fi
Watching Lower Decks before DS9 and ENT is a bold move. ;)
i've been watching LD as it comes out but only recently finished ENT and there have already been a few jokes i would have missed otherwise this season. i'm honestly glad because once i finish VOY i'll have an excuse to tear through LD again
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something, something, Federation ...
I was just thinking there isn't enough Star Trek.
It's like a secret dialect to unlocking conversation with people who are nerdy and struggle to maintain a conversation. Once you are aware that the IT guy/gal you are talking to has seen Star Trek then you don't need to reach any further for other conversation topics.
Just to expand, even if you don't watch Star Trek, asking if they think "Deep Space 9" is worth watching will yield you hours of socialising.
I've not had to deploy this technique for a while because eventually I watched Star Trek and loved it. Now I'm one of those people lol.
You get used to it.
... it's insidious, isn't it?
Just like the federation.
If you watch enough of it, you begin to like it
Alternatively, block those magazines. It's a bit of a hydra, but you too can be relatively Star Trek (and Star Wars!) free
blocked tenforward, we'll see if i end up needing to block any more
Magazines?
That's the Kbin/mbin equivalent to Lemmy communities
Sorry, yes: communities
Ah, that makes sense.
Thanks for clarifying!
Use the voyager app or webapp. You can block communities and keywords.
I do block communities and keywords, but like i said there is a lot of star trek content in non-star trek comms as well, and the keywords thing doesn't help if the post's image is the only thing that mentions star trek.
the tribbles are taking over, there's way more of them than there is of us.
Need more LEXX: The Dark Zone
I have absolutely 0 star trek content in my feed.
Yup, same here. Using "All" is a shit show, and I never subbed to anything startrek related.
Lemmy needs better sort options. Certain communities get a ton more posts than other communities, so their posts wind up being a huge percentage of the front page.
Lemmy needs a hot+diverse sort option that weights against posts in a community that already has a lot of posts on the the front page of hot.
I don't want to block those communities, i just want to see other topics too
I think the "scaled" option does that more or less
I'm my experience the scaled sort just has the same problem only the opposite. You end up with a feed full of mostly brand new posts in empty communities.
Either a dozen posts by a moderator of one community, or a single user posting the same thing to a dozen vaguely related communities.
yeah, it's not the best. might be good to have an option that makes it so you can't get stuff from the same community more than a couple times in a row.
What? I don't remember ever before seeing anything about Star Trek on Lemmy. Then again I only look at things I am subscribed to normally.
These kinds of "why is there so much content about $topic on $platform" questions always have the same answer: we have no idea why you are getting exposed to whatever you're getting exposed to.
You're surprised at the large concentration of nerds here?
I'm a nerd and I don't like Star Trek (The Orville is good, though). I also don't like Anime, trading card games, and all the other stereotypical nerd shit. I don't even use Linux (mainly because of KDE's half-assed HDR support). But I'm big on science, computing and gadgets.
The excessive Star Trek posts are annoying.
Because socialism and this platform is not skewed towards the centre-right/fascism
A lot less than 1% of mine is Star Trek related. I'm not even even sure I've seen enough Star Trek content for it to register as a meaningful fraction of a %.
So, yeah I would think that:
Like discussed in another very recent topic related to porn, it's great to be able to easily filter-out whatever one does not wish to see.
Nerds found here
Wtf are you talking about?