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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 even in Ask Lemmy now
It’s all Linux, Star Trek, and extremely niche porn categories.
And commies
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 society media
Not surprising that there’s overlap
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.
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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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I was just thinking there isn’t enough Star Trek.
I agree. Star Trek.
It’s one of my favourite organic Lemmy things
you’re posting this on literally the federation
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?
You get used to 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
… it’s insidious, isn’t it?
Just like the federation.
If you watch enough of it, you begin to like it
the tribbles are taking over, there’s way more of them than there is of us.
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.
