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.
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.
It feels good to be back.
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!
Thanks for starting this! I found another Daystrom Institute on here but it seems dead. Looking forward to all the great discussion!
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.
Great, guys. I go through the trouble of purchasing “daystrominstitute.us” and standing up a Digital Ocean droplet and just found out that somebody way more competent beat me to the punch! /s
I’d like to share a few thoughts, if I may.
I still don’t know the technical abilities of the Fediverse at-large and how customizable individual servers are. So some of these may be impossible or irrelevant.
1) I’d like to see a summary page of hosting costs with the ability to help out. We’re kinda on our own here and nobody should have to bear the Brunt alone.2) It would be nice to see an onboarding wiki to show new users. Maybe explaining how the concepts here map to their equivalent Reddit terms.- Since (I’m assuming) this is a hosted cloud instance from one of our more technically inclined officers, it may also be good to have a page of other devops type people who can help out with server tasks when needed.
With that said, I’m genuinely thrilled to see people back and can’t wait to dive back in to reading fanon so detailed that it makes a doctoral dissertation look like a shopping list.
Cheers!
Edit: Perusing the threads and it looks like most everything I wanted is already here!
Posting this from my kbin account - good to see the Federation is working!
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Not really sure what I’m doing, but as I’ve seen some sub branching out over here, finally pulled the trigger and made an account. We’ll see how this goes.
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!
Reporting for duty, @williams_482
Welcome aboard, Commander!
Was thus the result of the discussion over on Reddit whether there should be a trekkies specific instance? If so, kudos!
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’d be down for matching the weekly spoiler rule that kept all discussion related to a specific episode in its megathread until the next episode was out, if not a bit longer.
Why not create a spoilers subforum here - at least until this community has grown enough and the mod tools understood well enough to enforce the One Week rule?
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.
Yeah, well, other than that he was great!
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.
I would make the case that in the Star Trek future, people have learned to be able to see beyond an individual’s mistakes (even egregious ones). The M-5 was certainly a dangerous mistake, but Daystrom had good intentions and was working on a project of great interest to Starfleet Command. The results were completely unintentional on Daystrom’s part, and he clearly was not emotionally stable by the time “The Ultimate Computer” occurs, so I think that in light of the many tremendous impacts Daystrom had in computing that society was able to understand and forgive.
Well, his big successes were early, right? Maybe the institute was too.
I too have no idea what I’m doing, but despite my initial doubts (and thanks to some helpful folks over on r/startrek explaining how this works), I do appear to be doing it, and I am glad to be here with all of you.
(My first Lemmy comment ever! So happy it’s here on the Star Trek instance!).