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?
This is actually something i also noticed when i switched to lemmy from reddit. In reddit its all star wars and here its all star trek. I lean more in the star trek direction so im happy here
lemmy is created by and for techy dorks, star trek is for the same audience. Many of us are also communist or otherwise leftist, and star trek has done more for us than any other media. Major Nerys Kira, after which one of hexbear’s admins is named, was an explicitly violent terrorist who helped liberate her people from a fascist occupation, and she never gets mistreated because of it. Queer content on star trek has not been perfect, but was beter than anywhere else on TV for a long time because they had freedom to explore different ideas about gender and sexuality(when berhman wasn’t breathing down their necks) due to sci-fi having the excuse of being a fictional alien species. THe first inter-racial kiss on tv was from star trek, another point in the shows favor. There’s also a whole episode where a characrer becomes a Marxist, so coolest shit ever made. rommunism. I could go on for hours, but the bottom line is that it’s just peak fiction.
Because that community decided to leave and start a place here when things blew up. Other communities didn’t. They’re active, so people hang out there. There’s a fairly low barrier to entry for new folks to participate (a lot of people have watched some Star Trek).
Really, having an active community say, we’re leaving and setting up shop here goes a long way. I wish my niche subreddit had done so as well.
garek is amazing and he is the best boy <3 i only said quark because i was commenting more on the socialist/capitalist topic from the previous comment :D
You’re right, that was obnoxious. I apologize for that. But the concept of a Federation is big part of the show. As is not being a dick, which I just failed at.
Star Trek (esp 90s Trek and esp TNG) is extremely formative for most Gen Xers and Millennials. It’s unapologetically nerdy and has themes of tolerance and empathy, and establishes a utopian vision for the future that (to most people) is unfathomable. When we’re not on Lemmy, we’re talking about Trek with people in person.
Because Babylon 5 ended in 1998 and the reboot isn’t even in production yet. Also MGM doesn’t have the faintest idea what it’s supposed to do with Stargate.
It’s not even some nebulous “they”, JMS himself has been pitching it since 2021 and latest news is, well, that CW didn’t cancel the project amidst ownership and direction change and the writer’s strike.
Part of me thinks half of the reason Stargate did so well was because of the culture of the post-9/11 world. Westerners and Americans in particular got to watch SG1 fight people who looked what they thought terrorists looked like. Admittedly they’re not Muslims they’re more akin to Ancient Egyptians aliens. Insofar as Western culture in the early 2000s the early season villains are Muslim adjacent. I don’t think it was intentional, the movie came out long before 9/11. It was just in the right place at the right time. The show got a lot better once the Gua’uld and the Jaffa weren’t the villains of the week.
Stargate premiered 1997, it was already well-established in 2000. The Nox are introduced in s01e08, Asgard in s01e10. Season 5 is the first one which could have 9/11 influence, It’s mopping up the Jaffa rebellion and Osiris and Anubis are introduced but there’s plenty of non-Gua’uld episodes. Oh, and Wormhole X-Treme!.
Honestly, I joined the Star Trek server because it checked all the boxes. Allows down votes, doesn’t block NSFW posts, doesn’t force censorship of words they think are naughty, large enough to be active and have a wide range of subscribers. Funny memes about one of my favorite shows is just a bonus.
Same reason Linux is popular on Lemmy. Lemmy is essentially an explicitly leftist community that appeals to people nerdy and techy enough to leave Reddit and join a smaller platform. Linux is a FOSS, ie leftist techy OS. Star Trek is leftist Sci-Fi.
In my experience it is a very very loose collection of ideologies that share the common idea that there is no innate hierarchy between people and that helping others does not necessarily erode your own place in society.
Edit: Oh, it was an ELI5, then a leftist is someone who thinks other people in their sandbox does not make the sandbox worse.
Collectivization of industry, ie a rejection of Private Property. FOSS is leftist as it rejects individually owned IP and the profit motive.
Socialism, Anarchism, Communism, etc. are examples of leftist ideologies.
If you want a true ELI5, instead of one dude owning the factory and therefore everything the Workers create in it, imagine the Workers owning the factory and democratically deciding how to allocate profits and whether or not to elect a manager to help facilitate this.
Pretty simple to sum it up as collectivization of industry, or as abolition of Private Property in favor of collective ownership of the Means of Production.
Anything else, such as a rejection of hierarchy or a focus on democratization of production, is an abstraction and benefit of the previous statements.
A leftist is someone who, in the French national assembly, sits to the left, as seen from the lectern: Supporters of the Ancien Régime (monarchists) sat to the right, revolutionaries (of every colour) to the left.
As such the core tenets of leftism are Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité, in short, enlightenment values later coalescing into humanist values, as well as the metric system. Which is why the US cannot into leftism.
For me, the defining characteristic of leftism is trying to achieve social equality through redistribution of wealth and power from those who have plenty to those who don’t have enough.
I’m a voluntarist and think the federation model is an interesting stepping stone to better systems that would enable either direct democracy or polycentric law.
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