• Lockely@pawb.social
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    The major Star Trek subs all have. Started their own Lemmy instance (startrek.website) and have their private message directing folks over.

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        You know, I wonder if that was in all seriousness actually part of it, because they do have positive associations with the word federation, and that’s the same effect marketing mainly tries to achieve. Might make people just that little bit more interested in it and more willing to work through any troubles getting used to a new system.

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          I’m sure that subconsciously influenced the decision at least a bit. Plus the whole socialist and “fuck money” attitude in Trek.

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      that would explain why Im suddenly seeing a ton of star trek posts on my federated feed, I mean Id expect some but Ive seen a lot more all of a sudden

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          More star trek fans in the fediverse = awesome, imo. Welcome aboard, and thanks.

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            As somebody who isn’t even a Star Trek fan, I still think a flood of trekkies is infinitely cooler than a flood of white supremacists which have killed similar platforms.

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        Star Trek message boards were around since the BBS->AOL/COMPUSERVE/PRODIGY days. No surprise they’re seeking new life… I’ll show my way out.

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        Hey Trekkies are top nerd, would you expect any less? Godspeed brothers.

        I grew up with TNG and it warms my heart that it’s still going strong, we definitely need some of that optimism for the future.

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      Oh nice I was looking for a good Trek community. Did /r/tuvixinstitute /r/daystrominstitute move over?

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      Oh nice! I’m gonna have to follow them on here too- now I just need other subs for my interests (cars, aquariums, etc) and shitposting sites (dccirclejerk, batman arkham) to make their way here

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      Does anybody know yet if you are allowed to criticize startrek on those communities? I had a major problem with /r/startrek in that you couldn’t say anything less than glowingly positive or you were banned. Like, not even about the whole woke bullshit, you couldn’t even say the writing was below par - banned.

      I just wanna talk about startrek, both the good and the glaringly bad lol.