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Dear Lemmy, why Star Trek?? (programming.dev)

submitted 11 months ago by actual_patience@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Every single large server in this federation has at least one Star Trek community. There is even an entire server dedicated to Star Trek.

Not only that, these communities are some of the most active I've ever seen. There is no other franchise I know of that dominates the federation as much as Star Trek does.

So, what's the correlation with Lemmy and Star Trek? Why not other sci-fi series? Please, are there any connections?? Is this all coincidental?

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[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 39 points 11 months ago (2 children)

star trek mods successfully moved their communities from reddit back then. afaik the only other community with similar success is the piracy community.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 29 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Trek fully embraced the principals of piracy. "You wouldn't download a car"? Motherfucker, here's a replicator.

[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Stargate would like to talk to you about replicators.

[–] MelodiousFunk@kbin.social 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Successfully pulling off a lift-and-move like that was huge. I wish more niche/fandoms had followed suit instead of staying put.

[–] JWBananas@startrek.website 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Unfortunately, outside of the meme zone (i.e. !risa@startrek.website) there isn't a whole lot of engagement anymore. Once the blackout was over, the reddit communities opened back up.

I mean, look at r/DaystromInstitute versus !DaystromInstitute@startrek.website – it's not pretty.

[–] MelodiousFunk@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

Well that sucks. I am guilty of really only following Risa, mostly due to big gaps in my watch history and wanting to avoid spoilers for the newer shows. I'm not surprised though... Reddit had (and still has) tremendous amounts of inertia.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, but DaystromInstitute kind of sucked. They didn't have enough of a sense of humor. It didn't need to be Risa, but they took themselves way too seriously.

[–] JWBananas@startrek.website 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There was a post the other day about how Reddit never took anything seriously and how the top comments were always predictable jokes that stopped being funny years ago.

It was nice to have places like Daystrom, Ask Science, etc. that were curated for serious discussion.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I'm not saying they should have all been jokes and memes, I'm saying they were a little too "everything must stick to a canon that isn't especially coherent sometimes."

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 2 points 11 months ago

Daystrom provided a place for a more academic-style analysis that would have been drowned out even on r/StarTrek which already didn't allow low-effort.

Not for everyone, but it worked for those who liked it.