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.
this post was submitted on 18 Dec 2023
616 points (95.0% liked)
Asklemmy
43943 readers
411 users here now
A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions
Search asklemmy π
If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!
- Open-ended question
- Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
- Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
- Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
- An actual topic of discussion
Looking for support?
Looking for a community?
- Lemmyverse: community search
- sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
- [email protected]: a community for finding communities
~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
This is actually something i also noticed when i switched to lemmy from reddit. In reddit its all star wars and here its all star trek. I lean more in the star trek direction so im happy here
As others have said, Federation.
I expect it was a random first arrival bias.
It's only logical.
Because that community decided to leave and start a place here when things blew up. Other communities didn't. They're active, so people hang out there. There's a fairly low barrier to entry for new folks to participate (a lot of people have watched some Star Trek).
Really, having an active community say, we're leaving and setting up shop here goes a long way. I wish my niche subreddit had done so as well.
You do understand the entire structure of this Network is based on Star Trek, right?
load more comments
(8 replies)
Lemmy was built by and for people who like Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism morality plays.
I havenβt seen a single Star Trek movie and yet I find it more entertaining and hilariously funny at times.
I also prefer it to the incessant cringy cheesy Star Wars memes I would see elsewhere.
The Star Trek TV shows are far superior to any of the movies anyway.
Even starting with the original series' movies, they tried to make them more action-y than philosophical to appeal to a broader audience, and while they're a lot of fun, I rewatch the shows WAY more for a reason.
load more comments
(8 replies)
load more comments
(1 replies)
Iβd been hearing talk of Lemmy as a potential Reddit alternative around the third party app debacle, but nobody seemed to be taking it terribly seriously until I saw the Star Trek subreddits open startrek.website for themselves.
That got me interested. It was the first instance I can remember of one of the bigger communities I followed just up and moving like that, and it made the whole thing feel more real.
question 2: how to join