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?
dominates the federation
Well there you have it.
federates the Dominion
FTFY
Federate the Dominion? Are you joking?
I see what you did there
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Techies are Trekkies!
I never really thought about it before, but it seems obvious now. Trekkies and open source tech folks would have a massive overlap, and Lemmy kind of exists perfectly within that intersection of utilitarian principles. So of course we would all find each other here.
I’m convinced that Trekkies and open source tech are concentric circles.
The top voted posts of the last week are programmer humor jokes that have 400+ upvotes but like 4 comments its weird why don’t yall talk
Well, you see, Lemmy is full of nerds and communists.
“Workers of the world unite! You have nothing to loose but your chains!”Workers of the worlds you mean?
Nope, Rom in fact used the correct quote without alterations: https://youtu.be/Qag2bOBUVfQ?si=sCKNeq5xkSckQUzI&t=62
that’s why
Why is the show about gay space communism popular on the gay space communism network?
We may never have a good answer for why the gay nerdy communists love the colorful scifi communist space adventures
If you’re trying to say the way ryker throws his leg over a chair is the cause of me becoming a communist programmer then I have to tell you that you are sorely accurate.
I’ll give you a hint, the joke I want to make about it is not allowed on my instance.
Others have brought up other reasons, but one I haven’t seen is simply the depth of material to work with. Trek has had multiple multi-season series and tons of movies, which means you can basically find the right image for any meme if you watch enough of it.
You never watch enough of it!
I’m in the middle of my fifth or sixth Voyager rewatch now, and I don’t even like Voyager that much. It’s the perfect sort of thing to watch as I drift off to sleep, and the quality really improves after Year of Hell.
Are you telling me there aren’t enough star trek communities?
Star Trek is just bad. Just bad.
People keep recommending it, I kept giving it chances.
During the pandemic, I even went to IMDB, picked the very highest-ranked episodes of all time, and watched them, the supposed best-of-the-best, and they’re just awful.
are you stuck in the medium place with a singular copy of star trek: v instead of cannonball run 2?
That’s okay. It’s good to live in a world where very different people enjoy very different things. I’m glad we can all be part of a social federation and still get along despite our infinite combinations of infinite diversity.
It’s not a binge watch until you die from dehydration kind of franchise. It’s just good vibes short stories. You can pop almost any episode on the screen and bask in the benignness of FALGSC for 30 minutes.
That rules.
It was relatively episodic, but still had storylines that spanned episodes/seasons. To me, you could say the same thing about other series
“Lost was just bad… I even went to IMDb, picked the very highest ranked episodes…”(s4e5). (Replace Lost with Breaking Bad, would anyone recommend watching season 5 episode 14?)
I’m not sure many tv shows would live up to that metric, maybe Bluey/paw patrol/other kids shows.
Well I’m not gonna spend that much time on it now am I
No one is asking you to?
its all awesome in its own context. you just like to compare disparate works of art as if there should be a winner. just enjoy it… or dont.
i can absolutely understand someone who doesnt like star trek also not appreciating fan-based metrics such as ‘best of the best’
no worries, its just not your thing.
Whats your metric for quality? Hard to agree or disagree with such a poorly defined opinion.
It’s popular, very memeable, has a long history, and most importantly: there’s 2-3 series of it running right now. So it’s topical and being engaged with.
it is a giant, hot garbage dump of memeable content. i love it
I think it would be awsome to have Trekkies and Whovians do some crossovers.
it happens regularly o’er at startrek.website
Same reason Linux is popular on Lemmy. Lemmy is essentially an explicitly leftist community that appeals to people nerdy and techy enough to leave Reddit and join a smaller platform. Linux is a FOSS, ie leftist techy OS. Star Trek is leftist Sci-Fi.
Nerds, tech, and leftism all congregate on Lemmy.
I’m a voluntarist and think the federation model is an interesting stepping stone to better systems that would enable either direct democracy or polycentric law.
ELI5…what’s leftism?
Collectivization of industry, ie a rejection of Private Property. FOSS is leftist as it rejects individually owned IP and the profit motive.
Socialism, Anarchism, Communism, etc. are examples of leftist ideologies.
If you want a true ELI5, leftism is rejecting the idea that individuals should own tools and therefore own the products of said tools even without doing the labor, while supporting the idea of sharing tools to better own your own labor.
In my experience it is a very very loose collection of ideologies that share the common idea that there is no innate hierarchy between people and that helping others does not necessarily erode your own place in society.
Edit: Oh, it was an ELI5, then a leftist is someone who thinks other people in their sandbox does not make the sandbox worse.
A leftist is someone who, in the French national assembly, sits to the left, as seen from the lectern: Supporters of the Ancien Régime (monarchists) sat to the right, revolutionaries (of every colour) to the left.
As such the core tenets of leftism are Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité, in short, enlightenment values later coalescing into humanist values, as well as the metric system. Which is why the US cannot into leftism.
as well as the metric system
please. it’s proper name is the correct system.
Its so big and wide and vague, theres no good answer.
But basically, communists and hippies
Pretty simple to sum it up as collectivization of industry, or as abolition of Private Property in favor of collective ownership of the Means of Production.
Anything else, such as a rejection of hierarchy or a focus on democratization of production, is an abstraction and benefit of the previous statements.
Anecdotally I have the impression a lot of North American Lemmy users are technology professionals and enthusiasts in their 40s and 50s and therefore many would also be Trekkies from the 20th century.
Hey, some of us are in our 30’s too!
Hiya, youngblood!
Some may say even those in their 20s are here!
Woot!
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