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
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 🤔
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.
you’re posting this on literally the federation
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.
You’re absolutely right, there should be more Stargate, Firefly, and Babylon 5 content.
So say we all!
Indeed
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.
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!
All classics, but The Expanse has them beat.
Can confirm.
Hey, watch it buddy
Star Trek is a utopia. Why wouldn’t we wish to live there?
That’s what I signed up for.
I think there’s just a big fanbase here. I just ended up blocking the Star Trek communities; no hate towards them, but I don’t watch the show so it was needless clutter to me.
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
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I agree. Star Trek.
