my subscribe was pending. I just learned that was a bug. HOORAY I’M IN!
Welcome aboard, and pardon the space dust!
They should have named it startrek.federation
Do you Federation enthusiasts know that Lemmy developers are using Star Trek names for their testing instances?
Speaking of Federation enthusiasts, the whole network is supposedly part of a Federation, which is a fun touch.
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Oh cool. Glad that I found you here 😀
Man I just love the content that is growing every day in these new forums … nice work guys … subscribed and will come back again and again.
I feel like we’ve rebelled against old alliances and we are restarting again in some far off outpost with minimal supplies but plenty of hope and enthusiasm.
I’ve cut my ties and I’m staying on this outpost with you all.
I’m replying to a mastodon post, from a separate lemmy instance federated with startrek.website.
I’m living in the future.
What is this, the Mycelium Network?!
no sir. this is the federation.
I thought it was a Wendy’s.
Incredible work, I’m so proud of this community! Makes sense that Star Trek fans would see the value of the federationverse
live long and prosper
Qapla’
This is the lovable Star Trek spirit! ❤️🖖
I was fumbling around Lemmy instances looking for a “home base”, frustrated when I couldn’t find anything I liked. Then I found this one posted on the Lemmy subreddit and was immediately excited!
Hit it!
What’s more Star Trek than joining the federation?
Where my friends of DeSoto at?
Next on this old starship, we building a forum.
Also, where did the name friends of DeSoto come from? I’ve listened for years and feel like a missed a random reference.
It’s from the early days of Greatest Gen, and references Captain DeSoto of the USS Hood (NCC-1703). DeSoto and the Hood made several appearances in TNG, and Ben and Adam leaned into his chill vibes, theorizing that the Hood would be a great place to work.
It’s also an allusion to the phrase Friend of Dorothy, an older euphemism for LGBT people.
I think it was originally jokingly conceived as a sort of passphrase or shibboleth for fans of the pod to identify each other without revealing their embarrassing enthusiasm to outsiders, e.g.
Q: “Are you a friend of DeSoto?”
A: “Best boss I ever had!”
Saw this post on lemmy.world and subscribed!
Make it so.
