why is like 30% of the content on Lemmy star trek related? is it just a side effect of the particular communities I’m in or is it an actual platform-wide thing?

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Star Trek is a franchise about a bunch of nerds striving to find a “better way” to run society

Lemmy is a platform populated by a bunch of nerds striving to find a “better way” to run social media

Not surprising that there’s overlap

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I don’t know, but I fucking love it.

If you’ve got a problem with it, I suggest watching some more Star Trek.

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don’t have a problem with it it’s just weird that there is so much Star Trek focused content on communities that have absolutely nothing to do with it

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It’s all Linux, Star Trek, and extremely niche porn categories.

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And commies

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It’s even in Ask Lemmy now

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the venn diagram of star trek fans and terminally online Linux nerds that gravitate towards lemmy is basically a circle

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… the unit circle, in fact! In this talk, I will explain how the Fediverse and rhe Federation are analagous constructs in …

where is everybody going?

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It helps to keep us Engaged

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Star Trek is popular among left-wing turbonerds, aka Lemmys primary demographic. There was also a big push to join Lemmy on r/StarTrek after Reddits API controversy.

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