Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world unknown1234_5 @kbin.earth 2 wk. ago

why so much Star Trek?

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?

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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
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 all Linux, Star Trek, and extremely niche porn categories.
  
  It's even in Ask Lemmy now
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?
It helps to keep us Engaged
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.
It’s almost as if lemmy itself is a United Federation of Servers 🤔
you’re posting this on literally the federation
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.
I wish I saw that much Star Trek content.
- Block Linux and pervy anime and you'll see a lot more star trek.
  
  I would also like more pervy anime.
  
  Guys, am I doing Lemmy wrong?
- c/tenforward
  
  I'm already subscribed there :)
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.
There's an entire Star Trek instance (startrek.website) that followed the /r/daystrominstitute community from reddit during the Exodus.
- 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.
You're absolutely right, there should be more Stargate, Firefly, and Babylon 5 content.
- Indeed
- So say we all!
- 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!
- All classics, but The Expanse has them beat.
  
  Can confirm.
- 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.
  
  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.
Hey, watch it buddy
That's what I signed up for.
Star Trek is a utopia. Why wouldn't we wish to live there?
It's one of my favourite organic Lemmy things
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.
- 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 agree. Star Trek.
I was just thinking there isn't enough Star Trek.
something, something, Federation ...
It's like a secret dialect to unlocking conversation with people who are nerdy and struggle to maintain a conversation. Once you are aware that the IT guy/gal you are talking to has seen Star Trek then you don't need to reach any further for other conversation topics.
- Just to expand, even if you don't watch Star Trek, asking if they think "Deep Space 9" is worth watching will yield you hours of socialising.
  
  I've not had to deploy this technique for a while because eventually I watched Star Trek and loved it. Now I'm one of those people lol.
You get used to it.
- ... it's insidious, isn't it?
  
  Just like the federation.
- 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?
Need more LEXX: The Dark Zone
the tribbles are taking over, there's way more of them than there is of us.
Use the voyager app or webapp. You can block communities and keywords.
- I do block communities and keywords, but like i said there is a lot of star trek content in non-star trek comms as well, and the keywords thing doesn't help if the post's image is the only thing that mentions star trek.
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.
- I think the "scaled" option does that more or less
I have absolutely 0 star trek content in my feed.
- I'm sorry.
- Yup, same here. Using "All" is a shit show, and I never subbed to anything startrek related.
What? I don't remember ever before seeing anything about Star Trek on Lemmy. Then again I only look at things I am subscribed to normally.

These kinds of "why is there so much content about $topic on $platform" questions always have the same answer: we have no idea why you are getting exposed to whatever you're getting exposed to.
Because socialism and this platform is not skewed towards the centre-right/fascism
You're surprised at the large concentration of nerds here?
- I'm a nerd and I don't like Star Trek (The Orville is good, though). I also don't like Anime, trading card games, and all the other stereotypical nerd shit. I don't even use Linux (mainly because of KDE's half-assed HDR support). But I'm big on science, computing and gadgets.
  
  The excessive Star Trek posts are annoying.
A lot less than 1% of mine is Star Trek related. I'm not even even sure I've seen enough Star Trek content for it to register as a meaningful fraction of a %.

So, yeah I would think that:

is it just a side effect of the particular communities I’m in

Like discussed in another very recent topic related to porn, it's great to be able to easily filter-out whatever one does not wish to see.
Nerds found here
Wtf are you talking about?
You evidently need to watch more star trek

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