Hi. Normally , I enjoy the original (or at least lesser-known) memes on here.

Lately however, I’ve noticed that despite the anti-repost rule on here, way too many posts recently have been reposts; many of them very well might literally appear in the first results of an image search for “[insert series] memes”.

Personally, I feel that the purpose of any Trek meme community should primarily be to explore strange new memes; while occasionally reposts commemorating seasonal events (as well as the occasional tastefully-timed time loop meme) are acceptable, I think they should never dominate this community. I am hoping we can reduce that frequency and return to our primary mission.

Thank you for your time in listening to my concerns. Glory to you and your house.

  • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
    81·
    4 days ago

    Most of the limitations arise from using Lemmy, which is quite a bit behind other platforms. Obligatory fuck spez, but Reddit was a fully featured UI while Lemmy lacks most things that Reddit has, like post (+ user) flairs, which this community could otherwise apply, e.g. to distinguish OC from e.g. reposts here from Risa or elsewhere. A lot of this relates to the choice of Rust as the programming language, which barely anyone knows, even full and senior C++ developers, and the language itself is not finished unlike C++.

    Ironically PieFed has both of those features, but it lacks others like a post & comment preview, and most people interact with the Threadiverse via Lemmy rather than the tiny and very new PieFed. Perhaps as official support is added to the Thunder app that will change (full support is already available in Interstellar, though last I tried it out is a bit of a hack, so alpha version).

    Admiral Patrick’s Tesseract likewise has flairs too… which again doesn’t really help as most people neither use nor even know that they could use them. Edit: example post with two flairs on it.

    Thus the choice falls to have content or do not have content. Votes tend to take care of that: if you do not like something, then do not upvote it. Maybe if certain users (maybe me?) post things that you do not want to see, you can block them and don’t have to see it anymore. Though I for one very much enjoy the spirit of fun that I see daily in this community:-). I don’t think I’ve ever downvoted literally anything in it.

    • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
      7·
      4 days ago

      but Reddit was a fully featured UI while Lemmy lacks most things that Reddit has, like post (+ user) flairs, which this community

      I’m not saying you’re wrong, but it bears noting that Reddit 's search was so bad, entire second tier search websites exist.

      • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
        8·
        4 days ago

        Yikes, true dat. PieFed’s search is also pretty bad, and tbh, Lemmy’s is amazing and about to get better iirc by being able to restrict a search to only look at post titles. This is definitely an example of something that Lemmy does really super well.

        Also, fuck spez!