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Update: post deleted Most popular thread on /r/Redditalternatives is promoting Discuit, despite it having 185 weekly active users compared to the 44k on Lemmy. Feel free to chime in
  • I made a comment elsewhere in this thread, but I would be interested in helping out with a recruitment effort! Maybe it's time to set up a Lemmy "get the word out" community?

  • Update: post deleted Most popular thread on /r/Redditalternatives is promoting Discuit, despite it having 185 weekly active users compared to the 44k on Lemmy. Feel free to chime in
  • I would be interested in helping with a coordinated effort to promote Lemmy instances on Reddit. Sometimes I check in on /r/RedditAlternatives and it's clear 90% of the people who would be happy with Lemmy have already left for Lemmy. But there are many threads where a simple "maybe check out Lemmy I like it a lot" could do a lot of help. It's not like users need to quit Reddit but every post on a Lemmy instance (even if it's also on Reddit) helps make our instances more appealing.

    Perhaps setting up a community here to link to such threads could be a useful idea? And we could get talking points aligned as well.

  • Update: post deleted Most popular thread on /r/Redditalternatives is promoting Discuit, despite it having 185 weekly active users compared to the 44k on Lemmy. Feel free to chime in
  • Maybe they just expect users to accidentally type in the name of a Lemmy instance into the URL bar? Is that organic enough?

  • "An all-powerful space frog"
  • You know one Christmas I would like the family to just quietly enjoy a good Christian Star Trek meme without someone mentioning Doctor Who!

  • ‘Section 31’ Director Says The Streaming Movie Is A New Flavor Of Star Trek… With A Surprise Twist
  • Ok sorry, where I'm from saying you are "truly tired" of something implies you think it's bad.

  • ‘Section 31’ Director Says The Streaming Movie Is A New Flavor Of Star Trek… With A Surprise Twist
  • "Smaller more personal stakes" doesn't mean something will be good, either!

  • We’re about to fly a spacecraft into the Sun for the first time
  • Yeah I learned this playing Kerbal! It actually requires more energy to send something into the Sun than out of the solar system entirely.

  • How Lemmy public modlog allows to call out toxic and troll users, and should we have a community about this?
  • That user was literally banned from StarTrek.website instance for harassment of it's users, this is a textbook example of the problem with "call out" communities you are advocating for. They are more about creating drama than any kind of fact finding, let alone justice.

  • How Lemmy public modlog allows to call out toxic and troll users, and should we have a community about this?
  • Calling out mods for what? Not allowing your brand of freeze peach? Personally I think Lemmy needs more strong moderators because right now most instance's "all" feeds are just another stale parade of "memes". There is a lot of junk filler, and very few unique communities that make the Lemmyverse something that stands apart from Reddit.

    I would also encourage instance admins to de-federate instances that host your idea of a "community" purpose built to publicly "call out" users. It's toxic.

  • Interview: Garrett Wang On The Joy Of Harry Kims In ‘Lower Decks,’ And Anger Being Written Out Of ‘Picard’
  • This makes me glad that at least he was cast as a central character in a LD episode.

  • How can the Fediverse protect against AI slop?
  • I have had similar thoughts, I think the answer ultimately lies in active mods that can really get to know a community and it's users and identify when users are pushing a narrative even if they can't confirm if they are a bot or not.

    Also as @dessalines@lemmy.ml pointed out, user registrations. On startrek.website we have a question that is easy for a star trek fan to answer but not easy for a bot (although getting back to your concern, chatGPT probably would have no problem)

  • All Access Star Trek Interview with Garrett Wang
  • That is absolutely brutal lmao

  • 12 December 1981
  • Was? It hasn't gone anywhere...

  • What advertising slogan would you give for Linux?
  • lol I was going to suggest "it just works"

    I would not have suggested that before this year but it's definitely true now, or at least truer than for Windows/Apple.

  • AI predicts that most of the world will see temperatures rise to 3°C much faster than previously expected
  • I hate to be that guy, but "they" (the people with power to change course) have absolutely listened and understood. They don't care.

  • www.mcsweeneys.net The Starfleet Gazette Will Not Be Endorsing a Candidate for President of the United Federation of Planets

    “After the Washington Post announced it would not endorse a presidential candidate in this year’s election or in the future, its billionaire owner ...

    The Starfleet Gazette Will Not Be Endorsing a Candidate for President of the United Federation of Planets

    "Sure, The Borg have been a bit of a problem. Their tendency toward mass assimilation and the stripping of individuality and personal freedom doesn’t exactly jibe with our idea of what makes a great leader. But let’s be honest. Kathryn Janeway hasn’t been perfect."

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    www.theverge.com Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

    It’s going to be a lot harder to pull off massive protests.

    Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

    I quit as the top mod of /r/StarTrek in 2021 in protest against Reddit's platforming of vaccine disinformation subreddits. Then in 2023 during the API protest, myself and several of the remaining mods (including mods from /r/Risa and /r/DaystromInstitute) started StarTrek.website.

    The consensus I've seen on Lemmy has been largely "we don't need to spread the word about our open platforms because Reddit will do something stupid again and there will be another protest and Lemmy will be promoted there". So I hope we can take this as a lesson that we can't rely on platforms being shitty in order to switch society over to open standards. We need to do our best to make Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed good as well as known.

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    Can anyone help explain "Dot and Bubble" to me? (spoilers obv)

    For most of this episode I thought it was a good (if a bit on-the-nose) commentary about our societal distraction sickness and everyone living literally in a bubble. The hero was someone who literally able to walk on his own two legs, etc. But once they went underground everything kind of went loopy?

    Where did the slug monsters come from? The idea that they came from "outside the (city's) bubble" kind of reinforced the idea that it's dangerous to hide from what's scary. But then we see the homeworld was also eaten destroyed by the same slug-monsters? If the slugs are controlled or created by the dots, are we meant to understand that the people of the home world are similarly walking around in bubbles? If so, then why does Finetime exist? The whole premise of an off-world "perfect" colony seemed to imply they were providing some service to the home-worlders beyond their 2 hours of "work". Why would a society of people living in bubbles send their youth to a faraway planet?

    Then we see that the dots are capable of quickly killing the inhabitants. So where did the slug monsters come from? Why did the dots not just kill zippoty zop? Were the slugs obeying the dots alphabetical order parameters? Were they created by the dots?

    At this point I was like "whatever it's Doctor Who, the plots are never as consistent as the vibes!" But then the vibes changed completely when it's revealed everyone is racist?!

    My best guess is that this is some bungled way of comparing the people of Finetime to our modern social problem with radicalization on social media, like "look beyond yourself man" but that feels a bit of a stretch. I feel like I'm missing something big here!

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    Theory: The EMH in "Academy" is going to be the copy from "Living Witness"

    Until Disco S3, "Living witness" was the furthest future we had seen in Star Trek. But Academy takes place after Discovery. At the end of "Living Witness" the Doctor is described as heading towards Earth.

    Assuming the burn didn't get them, it's entirely possible two EMHs are surviving in Discovery's time. I think it would be a fun twist if it wasn't the EMH we expect!

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    The "Friendship is Universal" poster from SDCC

    This was mentioned elsewhere but I thought it was cool enough to deserve it's own post. The artist is Dusty Abell and they are selling copies on their website here: https://www.dustyabell.com/products/star-trek-doctor-who-friendship-is-universal-print

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    Corgana Corgana @startrek.website

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    Currently on the board of directors for StarTrek.website

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