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meh

hahahah yes pleasee

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

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.

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

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

Had to be fast! Happy it was available.

@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.

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

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.

Qapla'

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.

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.

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.

I said what I said.

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

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

https://startrek.website/u/M_5/view/Posts/sort/New/page/1 for those looking for the links.