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?

  • fireweed@lemmy.world
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    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

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    I don’t know, but I fucking love it.

    If you’ve got a problem with it, I suggest watching some more Star Trek.

  • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    the venn diagram of star trek fans and terminally online Linux nerds that gravitate towards lemmy is basically a circle

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      … 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?

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    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.

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    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?

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      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.

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      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.

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    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.

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      There’s a big star trek instance.

      The main Star Trek meme subreddit even has a stickied thread that directs people to Lemmy:

      Lastly, it’s no secret that Reddit dot com has changed into a wannabe meta poser d1ck gobbling for profit he-gets-us trash hole. If you are as sick of that shit as I am, join us at startrek.website for another fun version of risa and other great trek discussions. It’s kind of like here, just less convenient, and no spez grifting in sight.

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    You’re absolutely right, there should be more Stargate, Firefly, and Babylon 5 content.

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      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.

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        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.

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          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.

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      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!