You're surprised at the large concentration of nerds here?
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It’s almost as if lemmy itself is a United Federation of Servers 🤔
A lot less than 1% of mine is Star Trek related. I'm not even even sure I've seen enough Star Trek content for it to register as a meaningful fraction of a %.
So, yeah I would think that:
is it just a side effect of the particular communities I’m in
Like discussed in another very recent topic related to porn, it's great to be able to easily filter-out whatever one does not wish to see.
It helps to keep us Engaged
Lemmy needs better sort options. Certain communities get a ton more posts than other communities, so their posts wind up being a huge percentage of the front page.
Lemmy needs a hot+diverse sort option that weights against posts in a community that already has a lot of posts on the the front page of hot.
I don't want to block those communities, i just want to see other topics too
I think the "scaled" option does that more or less
I'm my experience the scaled sort just has the same problem only the opposite. You end up with a feed full of mostly brand new posts in empty communities.
Either a dozen posts by a moderator of one community, or a single user posting the same thing to a dozen vaguely related communities.
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something, something, Federation ...
the venn diagram of star trek fans and terminally online Linux nerds that gravitate towards lemmy is basically a circle
... the unit circle, in fact! In this talk, I will explain how the Fediverse and rhe Federation are analagous constructs in ...
where is everybody going?
I think there's just a big fanbase here. I just ended up blocking the Star Trek communities; no hate towards them, but I don't watch the show so it was needless clutter to me.
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the tribbles are taking over, there's way more of them than there is of us.
You get used to it.
Alternatively, block those magazines. It's a bit of a hydra, but you too can be relatively Star Trek (and Star Wars!) free
Magazines?
That's the Kbin/mbin equivalent to Lemmy communities
Sorry, yes: communities
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It's one of my favourite organic Lemmy things
you’re posting this on literally the federation
Star Trek is a franchise about a bunch of nerds striving to find a "better way" to run society
Lemmy is a platform populated by a bunch of nerds striving to find a "better way" to run social media
Not surprising that there's overlap
I don't know, but I fucking love it.
If you've got a problem with it, I suggest watching some more Star Trek.
don't have a problem with it it's just weird that there is so much Star Trek focused content on communities that have absolutely nothing to do with it
It's even in Ask Lemmy now
There either a lot of Trekkies, or a few that post a lot of content. Either way, I get a chuckle, even if Star Trek isn't my thing.
We need someone to post content for our endless doom scrolling, right?
I try to contribute but I’m often too busy to make the memes I dream
I love the mods and regulars on /c/tenforward, it’s a great subnet.
There's a big star trek instance.
So when people migrated en masse a year ago, those were the already established communities, except like lemmy.ml stuff.
Basically, they're from a long time ago in a fediverse far, far away.
There's a big star trek instance.
The main Star Trek meme subreddit even has a stickied thread that directs people to Lemmy:
Lastly, it’s no secret that Reddit dot com has changed into a wannabe meta poser d1ck gobbling for profit he-gets-us trash hole. If you are as sick of that shit as I am, join us at startrek.website for another fun version of risa and other great trek discussions. It’s kind of like here, just less convenient, and no spez grifting in sight.