To put it another way, the Fediverse is an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us; it binds the galaxy together.

meh

hahahah yes pleasee

no sir. this is the federation.

And now I have the Pearl Jam song stuck in my head. Thanks.

I wanna see a r/shittydaystrom here as well
its such a fun sub

Your username should either be Computer or The Warp Core.

Which mod were you on the /r/startrek sub?

Are the rules from there basically carried over here? Or will we start seeing racist/homophobic/other shitty behavior-style trek posts being allowed?

Just want to know if signing up is worth it or if I should move on.

Thank you.

Hey, if it stars an extra from Enterprise, it's canon.

I just started watching that show a couple days ago

I miss The Orville! It filled a huge void for me.

With Star Trek being such a massive franchise with a bunch of subcommunities, I think it makes some sense for it to be its own thing. There's no need to merge communities, having dedicated spaces is nice.

yep, i think that was their plan.. might as well extend the olive branch, though, and see if they'd like to join the Federation

We've had one Federation, yes. What about second.federation?

Had to be fast! Happy it was available.

Qapla'

is that gonewild for star trek?

@pleasemakesense

Pilgrim: How much karma do you have?

Guru: Mu.

@startrek @Stoat

They are. There's some formatting issues, but they are fairly compatible with each other, other than some minor problems with things like text formatting, but that's probably an issue of the interface, rather than Kbin.

r/greatestgen is still up and there's a thread from 4 days ago from the FoD Mastodon admin about setting up an FoD Lemmy. I pointed that OP here but it wouldn't be official Uxbridge-Shimoda social media unless its the Card Daddy as admin.

Oh man, we definitely need a Greatest Trek instance. Maybe a mod of speshial conshennce can make one for B&A to drop into.

It's from the early days of Greatest Gen, and references Captain DeSoto of the USS Hood (NCC-1703). DeSoto and the Hood made several appearances in TNG, and Ben and Adam leaned into his chill vibes, theorizing that the Hood would be a great place to work.

It's also an allusion to the phrase Friend of Dorothy, an older euphemism for LGBT people.

I think it was originally jokingly conceived as a sort of passphrase or shibboleth for fans of the pod to identify each other without revealing their embarrassing enthusiasm to outsiders, e.g.

Q: "Are you a friend of DeSoto?"

A: "Best boss I ever had!"

It's from a neat Trek podcast called Greatest Generation, highly recommend checking it out!

I think it came about during the DS9 Era, don't exactly recall though.

I said what I said.

You heard 'im.

@NotJeffreyCombs oh thank god. I always recommend the DS9 one to people who either missed it or tried and failed.

https://startrek.website/... for those looking for the links.

@TeaHands
Really the only response to my stupidity

[text] (/c/community@instance.whatever) but without the space between the bracket and parentheses

to those concerned about possible censorship or poor moderation of your fav communities (e.g. replies in this thread)... please remember the most important part of this social experiment.

Federation.

start your own instance and community, then you can manage things exactly as you see fit - literally godlike powers. play by the concensus rules of the instances you wish to federate with and your content will spread far and wide across the fediverse. your future will be glorious

i was barred from r/startrek for commenting on how the completely unprofessional attitudes of characters toward the chain of command was irritating to me. i compared it to the "finally" scene from tng, and how discovery has worse occurrences happen repeatedly every episode that just get completely ignored

THANK YOU. Can't stress this enough for the persecution fetish crowd: You are not being silenced because you don't like new Star Trek. You are being silenced because you're acting like a twat.

Hard disagree on that. I was called a bigot for criticizing the plots and writing on Disco more than once, usually with a few grafs of explanation and canon reasons.

As for the content, nothing is stopping individuals from removing or exporting their comments. There are automated tools that will do this for you with very little effort.

I've been thinking about this. Shouldn't we be copying rising posts from Reddit to their respective communities on Lemmy? It would help bridge the content gap while the userbase is still growing, and it's all public information.

Especially since a new social media network also means that they would have to learn how to use it all over again. People are used to Reddit, whereas Lemmy doesn't have the creature comforts, like keyboard shortcuts, and RES that someone might be used to.

That can be a pretty big obstacle.

Post hog

Not only that, but copies of everything now exist on every single instance that's federated with startrek.website, so its potentially recoverable should something catastrophic happen.

And that's fine. The mods, or whomever, have every right to go off and form another community, and the participants have every right to follow. The mods DON'T have the right to make the decision for me, restrict the content that I posted to a site they do not own, or otherwise interfere with my right to enjoy the archival content that they did not create. Hopefully the Reddit ownership will force the afflicted communities open sooner rather than later and let us each decide individually, rather than be subject to the whims of some babies that think an entity doesn't have the right to manage it's own tech.

I mean, I'm not the one running around and breaking things, but ok.

There is also a currently active archive.org project trying to capture all of Reddit, and I would be extremely surprised if they weren't also capturing both /r/DaystromInstitute and /r/StarTrek, at the bare minimum.

@lucas I rescued one post that I oddly cared about, because people kept finding it on Google and necroing it.

@startrek @Stoat @refugee

I prefer they stay private for now to direct users, and then once July 1 happens, they can re-open as restricted for a limited time.

How do you not understand that reddit is a symbiotic relationship between users / moderators - who generate and moderate ALL of the content for the site - and the reddit workers and admins who host it? Without one the other can't exist. Reddit is 100% freeloading off of users' content just as much as users & moderators are "freeloading" off of the ability to access the content through the API.

Reddit ownership (and you) have apparently chosen to either forget that, or ignore it.

Lmao, you suck dude.