No worries, we’ll figure out how this works someday.
Here’s hoping this takes off! In retrospect it probably would’ve been smarter for me to pick the same username as my Reddit account, but given how few people have registered here so far, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to grab Kestrel.
Pulling the trigger as well. I think Ive been looking for a reason to jump ship for a long time now, and this is it.
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Not really sure what I’m doing, but as I’ve seen some sub branching out over here, finally pulled the trigger and made an account. We’ll see how this goes.
Thanks for making this place. And sorry for the flak yer getting on Reddit, it sucks. I lurked there for a long time & just want ye to know I get the hard work that goes into the content & keeping it well run that makes lurking possible & enjoyable.
It’s mad to me seeing the difference in support on old daystrom vs say what the mods of r/worldbuilding are experiencing (still a few loud voices but much more supportive overall).
Some (okay, quite a lot) of that pushback seems really weird to me. There’s so many people pontificating about the “convenience” of Reddit, and having access to every community on the same platform… somehow failing to realize that an Internet browser is, itself, a single platform that can access everything and that clicking on a specific sub from a website’s drop-down menu is functionally no different from clicking a bookmarked webpage from a browser’s drop-down menu.
I think folks are just scared of change and upset at the (minimal) inconvenience of having to set up a new account elsewhere.
It doesn’t take long to find communities with the Lemmy Community-Browser.
Yes, it would be easier if we could just join from the sidebars without having to copy to your own instance’s search page. But once you’ve subscribed, it’s fairly seamless and avoids an algorithm pushing subs at you.
Does this mean I’m an ensign again?
I too have no idea what I’m doing, but despite my initial doubts (and thanks to some helpful folks over on r/startrek explaining how this works), I do appear to be doing it, and I am glad to be here with all of you.
(My first Lemmy comment ever! So happy it’s here on the Star Trek instance!).
Genuinely so happy to find Daystrom here. Probably one of my favourite subs.
Pleased to be here with you all! I’m a Daystrom lurker and lunchtime at work would be awful without all the insightful posts to read.
Glad this sub will survive! Although I’m a bit sad to lose my flair, I just got promoted to Jr Lieutenant.
I’m still trying to figure out how an arrogant scientist whose creation killed over 450 Starfleet crew members on two starships and then went insane himself got a prominent technological institute named after him.
I would make the case that in the Star Trek future, people have learned to be able to see beyond an individual’s mistakes (even egregious ones). The M-5 was certainly a dangerous mistake, but Daystrom had good intentions and was working on a project of great interest to Starfleet Command. The results were completely unintentional on Daystrom’s part, and he clearly was not emotionally stable by the time “The Ultimate Computer” occurs, so I think that in light of the many tremendous impacts Daystrom had in computing that society was able to understand and forgive.
Yeah, well, other than that he was great!
Hi everyone! I’m glad to see Daystrom has its own continuity of government bunker.
It looks like M-5 is hard at work archiving posts. Is it grabbing old PoTWs or working off some other criteria?
Excited to see you guys on the Lemmyverse! The subreddit was always one of those places I could get lost in for hours. Now I can do it here!
Thanks for starting this! I found another Daystrom Institute on here but it seems dead. Looking forward to all the great discussion!
From 86000 members to 300. Hopefully Reddit backs down.
Either Reddit will back down, or it will very quickly grow. I would worry more for /r/startrek, but this community doesn’t have a peer anywhere else.
It’s not going to grow much.
95% of redditors won’t make the shift.
The Startrek community on Reddit is just going to start spinning up new subreddits to replace the ones that were closed.
Sure, it will take some time for the new communities to reestablish but it will happen.I support and regularly use federated systems and support the principals of the Startrek subs that have moved, but the reality is that societally/practically we are a long way from people choosing to move away from the various MegaSocials.
We’ve had people try to spin up alternates for years and they haven’t taken off, except with certain groups of people who can’t help but miss the entire point of Star Trek.
The moderators are as much responsible for the community as the platform is. These communities are growing exceedingly fast, and it’s not like Lemmy isn’t just slightly jankier old.reddit anyway.
I suspect people being people there will be a larger surge to the Fediverse once third party apps start failing.
Just to be clear, I have no objections to the move, and agree with the stance, I just have doubts about people leaving their places of convenience.
In general I find the kind of person that moves to the fediverse to more interesting anyway.
Wishing this community success
Happy to be here. Good timing with SNW starting back up again this week.
Just a thought though: Traditionally Daystrom (and the other ST subreddits) had no spoiler rules.
As we don’t have the same sort of tools to temporarily filter keywords or group communities rather than subscribe etc perhaps we could try to be a bit spoiler conscious (at least for the very latest new episode) - give people a chance to catch up.
Testing
Hello Worlds
Why not create a spoilers subforum here - at least until this community has grown enough and the mod tools understood well enough to enforce the One Week rule?
