
/r/StarTrek founder and primary steward from 2008-2021
Currently on the board of directors for StarTrek.website
Redditors gonna reddit.
Upvoted! I like that this is not in a RedditAlternatives community or anything.
EDIT: had to laugh at this comment:
"this site is a bit confusing, but the bigger deal breaker is the 'not for profit' angle for me."
People are saying that Renegdes is actually the only canonical Star Trek
When the show with the Black lady aired a lot of """longtime fans""" and YouTubers decreed that it was "not canon" because of XYZ...
you can skip the signature part (i signed it with a fake name cornelius flycatcher)
You won't get this meme but trust me it slaps
I know DS9 is considered the "dark stories" one, but it's still bursting with optimism compared with the majority of scifi out there.
They are just covering their butts legally against someone suing them for typing a URL into the URL bar.
I got a strong impression that the future of the Federation we saw in Disco was specifically built around the values of keeping "humanity" (and inalienable species) at the center of everything.
Surely The Year of The Holodeck Desktop would arrive eventually?
This is a fun thought experiment and I'm kind of surprised Discovery didn't do something like this with holodeck tech in the "future" since the writers weren't afraid to do other tech-taken-to-natural-conclusion like tiny phaser transporters (or whatever those were).
Semi-related but I always thought it would be cool to see a Star Trek future where things have advanced so far that it would appear to someone like Picard like he and the Enterprise appeared to the Mintakans.
Not true anymore actually, the AI Max 395 is basically on par with a 4060.
I wish they had gone with an even smaller Mini-STX format like the AsRock DeskMinis but it's still cool.
Good point but I will say even with immutable distros users are given a lot more control than Windows or Mac.
Yeah BlueSky is a solid side-step. It's still for-profit and not federated but every BlueSky user is one not on X. And a lot of BlueSky's userbase is comprised of particularly influential X users so them leaving is particularly harmful to the ecosystem.
I also think it's funny how the journalists who repeat BlueSkys "decentralized" nonsense thought Mastodon was too weird and technical, and yet are promoting Pixelfed. Not complaining, but it is funny.
Chocolatey and Windhawk
In Bazzite, installing software, for example, works differently than under a typical distribution.
This is true, but it's also on the whole a lot more familiar to a non-Linux user (open app store, search, download).
Tumblr to join the fediverse
Since 2022, blogging site Tumblr has been teasing its plans to integrate with the fediverse -- the open social web powered by the protocol ActivityPub

How will Reddit generate content for paid-for subreddits?

Sam Whited on Mastodon: "I gave myself a dedicated "Picard" button that I can reach over and hit any time a company tries to make me use their new LLM."
Attached: 1 video I gave myself a dedicated "Picard" button that I can reach over and hit any time a company tries to make me use their new LLM. #StarTrek #TNG

Forbes: ‘Open Source And Ethical’ TikTok, WhatsApp And Instagram Alternatives Could Transform Social Media
Very cool to see this topic in a place like Forbes, IMO.
The Official Philippa Georgiou backstory from the Star Trek YouTube channel
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OK Go's latest music video using 64 smartphones. Pretty cool!
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If you begin the Voyager episode "Spirit Folk" at exactly 11:49:35 on New Year's eve, Ensign Harry Kim will kiss a cow as the clock strikes midnight.
From @[email protected]
“Quite simply, we want to find the birthplace of the solar wind.”…

When discussing the plural name for the group of beings with different faces that are The Doctor, is it proper to say "The Doctors", "Doctors Who" or...?
Asking for a friend
A new interview with William Shatner from the Roddenberry Archive.
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TIL Connor Trinneer & Dominic Keating have a podcast called "The D-Con Chamber". Here they are interviewing Nana Visitor on her new book!
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“After the Washington Post announced it would not endorse a presidential candidate in this year’s election or in the future, its billionaire owner ...

"Sure, The Borg have been a bit of a problem. Their tendency toward mass assimilation and the stripping of individuality and personal freedom doesn’t exactly jibe with our idea of what makes a great leader. But let’s be honest. Kathryn Janeway hasn’t been perfect."
It’s going to be a lot harder to pull off massive protests.

I quit as the top mod of /r/StarTrek in 2021 in protest against Reddit's platforming of vaccine disinformation subreddits. Then in 2023 during the API protest, myself and several of the remaining mods (including mods from /r/Risa and /r/DaystromInstitute) started StarTrek.website.
The consensus I've seen on Lemmy has been largely "we don't need to spread the word about our open platforms because Reddit will do something stupid again and there will be another protest and Lemmy will be promoted there". So I hope we can take this as a lesson that we can't rely on platforms being shitty in order to switch society over to open standards. We need to do our best to make Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed good as well as known.