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Dear Lemmy, why Star Trek?? (programming.dev)

submitted 2 years ago by actual_patience@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Every single large server in this federation has at least one Star Trek community. There is even an entire server dedicated to Star Trek.

Not only that, these communities are some of the most active I've ever seen. There is no other franchise I know of that dominates the federation as much as Star Trek does.

So, what's the correlation with Lemmy and Star Trek? Why not other sci-fi series? Please, are there any connections?? Is this all coincidental?

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[–] Crankpork@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago

I’d been hearing talk of Lemmy as a potential Reddit alternative around the third party app debacle, but nobody seemed to be taking it terribly seriously until I saw the Star Trek subreddits open startrek.website for themselves.

That got me interested. It was the first instance I can remember of one of the bigger communities I followed just up and moving like that, and it made the whole thing feel more real.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago

Because Star Wars destroyed their own Empire

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

Federation.

[–] unreachable@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

[–] CthuluVoIP@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fediverse: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds; to seek out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where no one has gone before.

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