I’ve noticed a number of memes already popping on this community. One thing I always valued about Reddit was that the larger communities were often able to clearly delineate which spaces were for different types of content, and I’d hate for that to get lost in the move to the Fediverse.
Could I suggest that, while people are still getting used to the new home of the communities that used to exist in the Star Trek subreddits, it might be helpful to distinguish between them with a simple sticky post on each community?
e.g. Something along the lines of:
!StarTrek is for Star Trek news and discussion.
!DaystromInstitute is for serious, in-depth discussion.
!Risa is for memes and shitposts.
Please help the mods by picking the right community to post in, and live long and prosper!
This would also have the benefit of continually publicising the existence of the smaller DaystromInstitute and Risa communities.
Risa is for memes and shitposts, Daystrom is for Xtra srs bsns.
Seriously though Daystrom has a whole system of effort posting and specific guidelines. I’m not sure how much of that they’re bringing over here just yet.
I’ve browsed the Star Trek sub for a long time and never knew about those other two.
Daystrom was one of my very favourite places to browse on Reddit - far smaller than the main Star Trek sub but a great example of how that didn’t matter when you had a well-engaged community and a dedicated team of moderators.
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Had too many cheap shots about Discovery in the end, got tedious
It was hit and miss. Every once in a while they knocked it out of the park, but other times it became /r/BannedFromStarTrek or /r/BannedFromDaystrom.
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I’ll be honest, when I first saw “Risa” I thought it was a Startrek NSFW community as was wondering how that was going to work.
I can’t wait to shitpost the fuck out of Riker memes.
I keep seeing people saying that there can be connections between kbin and Lemmy to Mastodon but I can’t figure it out.
Also I haven’t figured out the way to connect startrek.website to kbin either
Mate, I literally posted this thread from kbin!
Hello from kbin! I just subscribed from my own kbin instance so there seems to be no issues with cross-compatibility. I subscribed to startrek@startrek.website by searching for it and now the posts show up in my own kbin instance. :)
Just go to /m/startrek@startrek.website on your kbin instance.
For Mastodon, the community shows up as a user, so you probably want to follow @startrek.
You basically treat it like a subreddit, with an extra bit at the end saying which site the community is on.
Otherwise, they’re usually intercompatible enough you can get away with replying to them without any unnecessary faff.
The “StarTrek” community is also the default one, so anything goes there, until things get active enough to have to be shuffled to /c/Risa.
Since there’s not a lot of meme activity yet, things are probably fine for the time being.
Since there’s not a lot of meme activity yet, things are probably fine for the time being.
That’s not what it looks like to me. Many of the top items I see when I open startrek@startrek.website right now are memes and low effort posts: ‘Seven of Nine arrested’, ‘There’s an ass in assimilate’, ‘Not every day on the Enterprise is adventure’, ‘Khan’, etc.
I think there’s a danger of this becoming the default ‘Star Trek shitposts’ community, which I don’t think is going to be much of a draw for r/startrek uses to come over from Reddit. I’d say least nudge that stuff towards Risa before people get too settled (which is what I’m suggesting in this post), but at some point I’d be happy with stricter moderation too if nudging doesn’t work.
Risa is necessary over on reddit because the community is big/busy enough that memes can overwhelm the discussion. Until it gets that populous over here I don’t think it’s necessary to force the separation (but keep !DaystromInstitute clean).
Originally we didn’t have /c/risa set up for that very reason, but The People Demanded It.
