One of the difficulties of the making of season 2 was that it was happening at the same time as the making of season 3 so they couldn't really connect them that much... so you are fine skipping right to season 3 if you want
lemmy and kbin differ in the details, they are totally different softwares written from the ground up to be like reddit but they are generally pretty similar in practice. Users on lemmy and kbin can follow, post and interact with each other as well as with users on mastodon etc... that's what makes it federated!. Your login will only work with the website you made it at (here, at startrek.website) in the same way that your email login will only work at the website you have it setup at (i.e. gmail login won't work for yahoo email).
Also, just to clarify, a particular website/community on the fediverse is referred to as an instance. startrek.website is a lemmy instance. Bit of a weird phrasing, but there are many different websites running lemmy software so a word had to be invented to refer to the various different websites running one version of a fediverse software (lemmy, mastodon, kbin etc...).
Sorry if that was too much of an explanation, I just figured there are probably a lot of new people here who might not quite understand how everything fits together!
I think there are always going to be weird road bumps and edgecases with the way different fediverse softwares interact, but you know what, I'll tolerate a lot of jank if it means we aren't locked into an untrustworthy corporation's silo....
I 100% agree. Federated social networks are about empowering diversity and actualizing democracy. Not just saying "oh we live in a democracy so we must be free" but actually building that freedom out into the structures of our communities. We are freer and more powerful together on a federated social network, and not only can this fan community continue to grow, its presence will definitely encourage other communities to join the fediverse too.
If other people see the fediverse or lemmy mentioned in passing and think "oh, the star trek reddit moved there didn't it? yeah startrek.website" that does a service for the fediverse as whole by making it real to people.
I also think that if this community wanted to allow other topics on it, star trek is a great foundation to build a more general community around! Don't know if that is what people want, just that I think a lot of people might come in the door for star trek and might find like minded people who like discussing other stuff too.
porthos @ porthos @startrek.website Posts 8Comments 127Joined 2 yr. ago
One of the difficulties of the making of season 2 was that it was happening at the same time as the making of season 3 so they couldn't really connect them that much... so you are fine skipping right to season 3 if you want