No worries, we’ll figure out how this works someday.
Well… I was wondering which Lemmy instance to create my “Algernon_Asimov” account on. Thanks for solving that dilemma!
Welcome aboard Algernon! It’s a pleasure to see your username in Daystrom again.
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?
It looks like M-5 is hard at work archiving posts. Is it grabbing old PoTWs or working off some other criteria?
Currently the criteria is “was it on the wiki and did someone message Reddit modmail asking for it (or something closely related to it)”. So M-5 isn’t actually working very hard at all at the moment, but that can change!
We don’t currently plan to repost things that other put on Daystrom’s main site, but we do encourage people to repost things they were proud of from their own comment history if they feel so inclined. We intend to reopen the site in read-only mode before too much longer, which should make that process easier, and in the long run we’d like to put together some kind of comprehensive off-site archive with proper credit given to submitters. Alternately, if there’s something from the wiki you would like to see preserved here, let us know and M-5 will set to work on it.
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.
Hi all! And bye Reddit, /r/DaystromInstitute was >50% of the reason I even stayed logged in on that site.
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!
Glad this sub will survive! Although I’m a bit sad to lose my flair, I just got promoted to Jr Lieutenant.
Welcome aboard, Lieutenant!
I hope we can find KhaosWorks and some of the other Daystrom regulars over here. I’d be lost without their breakdowns ):
Well, my breakdown is ready to go as soon as I figure out where to post it! Thanks for the support!
Hooray! Excited to see you here too! Now it will truly feel like Daystrom for me at least.
Was thus the result of the discussion over on Reddit whether there should be a trekkies specific instance? If so, kudos!
Reporting for duty, @williams_482
Welcome aboard, Commander!
Thanks for starting this! I found another Daystrom Institute on here but it seems dead. Looking forward to all the great discussion!
It feels good to be back.
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
Good point, we’re going to have to play it a little differently regarding spoilers to start out. Long term I expect to keep the same core philosophy on spoilers, but for an immature community we need to be a little more selective.
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.
Considering that despite his failures Starfleet has muscled on with fleet automation ever since, no matter how many times it destroys the fleet, I suppose they consider his failure aspirational.
Yeah, well, other than that he was great!
Well, his big successes were early, right? Maybe the institute was too.
