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TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name

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/c/TenFoward: Your home-away-from-home for all things Star Trek!

Re-route power to the shields, emit a tachyon pulse through the deflector, and post all the nonsense you want. Within reason of course.

~ 1. No bigotry. This is a Star Trek community. Remember that diversity and coexistence are Star Trek values. Any post/comments that are racist, anti-LGBT, or generally "othering" of a group will result in removal/ban.

~ 2. Keep it civil. Disagreements will happen both on lore and preferences. That's okay! Just don't let it make you forget that the person you are talking to is also a person.

~ 3. Use spoiler tags. This applies to any episodes that have dropped within 3 months prior of your posting. After that it's free game.

~ 4. Keep it Trek related. This one is kind of a gimme but keep as on topic as possible.

~ 5. Keep posts to a limit. We all love Star Trek stuff but 3-4 posts in an hour is plenty enough.

~ 6. Try to not repost. Mistakes happen, we get it! But try to not repost anything from within the past 1-2 months.

~ 7. No General AI Art. Posts of simple AI art do not 'inspire jamaharon'

~ 8. No Political Upheaval. Political commentary is allowed, but please keep discussions civil. Read here for our community's expectations.

Fun will now commence.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey and let me the first, and a happy first, to welcome you to /c/TenForward, a place dedicated to hanging out and talking Trek. Whether you're theorizing about old tech (or a new season), talking about your favorite class of ship (Crossfield, but are you surprised?) or just wanting to check out some memes, Ten Forward is the place for you.

Ten Forward was founded with the express purpose of providing a calm, relaxing hangout atmosphere where people could talk about all aspects of Trek. A community that was built to be a real community with friends and strangers coming together to help entertain each other and provide a happy place for us all to go. We want this community to be broad enough to encompass all things Trek under one umbrella, whether that be your typical source of memes, some recent news about a new Picard movie in the mix, some really cool fan art you've found or just how existentially horrifying the transporters really are.

We do have a set of rules in the sidebar but they're no more stringent or severe than you would see in any other general subreddit, but we do ask people to be familiar with them and to follow them to the best of their ability. They're all pretty basic though. Be kind to one another, don't be bigoted, try to avoid negativity and support people when you can, stick to being on topic (as long as it's Trek related, you're good!) and try to tag recent spoilers of anything released within the last 3-ish months.

And who are here to enforce the rules and help provide the community with a framework of what to expect? Well there's myself of course but also the stellar @[email protected], the celestial @[email protected] and the out-of-this-world @[email protected]! And of course we won't just be moderating but posting as well. And boy do I personally have a backlog from dealing with personal stuff over the past month or so. If you have any issues with something you see, please report it. If you feel that mod action wasn't particularly fair, reach out to one of us. We're here to help provide a great experience for everyone across the board.

So welcome to /c/TenForward! And to borrow, and slightly alter, a quote from a man I miss everyday...

Since my customary farewell would appear oddly self-serving, I shall simply say... 🖖 ... Have fun.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

everyone to the bar!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Those Swear Trek gifs are some of the best things ever made

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Is this from a scene or from a blooper reel?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

or just how existentially horrifying the transporters really are.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Here's the other half of that "accident"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

You can't forget the sound that thing makes too.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Thanks for this guys!

It's great to see a new community forming and to start something new with a group of positive people. The old sites and the old names have run their course and this is a breath of much needed fresh air that will give everyone something new to build on.

For us lurkers and newbies, we feel like the lower decks crew members who join in once in a while. But it's great to have a core group of positive people looking out for us.

I joined Lemmy during the reddit exodus last June and it was a learning experience. It's frustrating to find your way through something new on your own but in that mess Stamets was a positive force that made it fun. I don't know people but I do know kindness and that is all I've ever received from him. And that is why I'm here.

Thanks guys for everything you do ... and thanks for creating this space.

Ten Forward!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Hey! Thanks for making this community. I look forward to spending entirely too much time here.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Can I ask how you go about creating a gif like this? I assume you grabbed a captionless version but how did you add the text and put it in different spots for the "right" "right"...?

I'd love to contribute more but have no idea how to make these things! (Hence, most of my posts are in a simple joke c, fakehistoryporn)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

No worries, I make clips like this by cutting mp4s from the movies to the length I want with vidcutter, then use ffmpeg on the command line to convert them to gifs, then use gifsicle to combine them if there are multiples (If you’re on windows I’m thinking the gif would be simpler to make?) then use gifntext dot com to add the captions. Each "Right" was a different caption that I placed at different levels. If you get stuck I can help you out

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm saving this comment too. I'd love to start making gifs.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

More than happy to help out if you run into any trouble

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Lol, soon! Maybe!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

For what it's worth, I spent a bunch of time last night trying but my gif ended up too big even after using a gif compression site. I'll look into other ways to compress gifs but this is turning out to be silly complicated! (Which does increase my admiration for all y'all actual gif makers!)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Is it possible to run ffmpeg on your system? When converting from mp4 to gif I set the resolution to 640 (a common phone resolution, you could go with 720 or something else if you want) and the fps to 10, that should reduce the size of your gif dramatically.

ffmpeg -ss 0 -i source.mp4 -vf "fps=10,scale=640:-1:flags=lanczos,split[s0][s1];[s0]palettegen[p];[s1][p]paletteuse" -loop 0 filename.gif

Otherwise you can send me what you got and I could convert it for you

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's a good question, I'll give ffmpeg a shot!

One question, in the sample text above part of it got translated to a thumbs down, what follows scale=640 ?

Thanks for all your help!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Not sure how to write it without invoking emojis so hopefully this helps

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Absolutely helps, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This is amazing, thanks! I am on windows and generally happy grabbing a gif from online but I've definitely had situations where I can't find exactly what I want so this is incredibly helpful. I'll reach out if I have issues but I look forward to contributing GIFS WITH WORDS! Unlimited power!!!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Oh yeah no worries, if you need a specific Trek gif or clip let me know. Always cool if you can make it yourself with higher resolution compared to some of those deep fried gifs you find online

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Wen funny strike! (Admittedly, I haven't been contributing much, forgot I needed to finish a course before a course I'm no in starts...) But I will have a goddamn good gif before too long and will share with all!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

GIFs are my weakness. This is fantastic!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

🖖

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Live long buddy <3

Leave some prospering for the rest of us already

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

You too ❤️ Good luck with the community!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What happened to Risa?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nothing. Community still exists. But myself and others have a different moderation philosophy and wanted to set up our own place so we made TenForward

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What makes it different?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Risa has a single moderator. We have a large and robust team (edit: I typed in teal for some reason). Risas moderator is barely active on Lemmy and not at all in communities he isn't a mod in. Our mods are active across lemmy. The most important though is that Risa has no rules which makes it unclear for users and mods what is okay and what isn't. We have clearly defined rules to give a framework for everyone.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

This answer you've given a few times now implies that /c/Risa allows bigotry and honestly, I take offense to that. I removed bigoted and uncivil comments the whole time I was modding either Risa under the same "no real rules" framework currently there. Risa has essentially the same rules about civility and tolerance that you have, applied instance wide.

The current problem with Risa isn't abstract. The lone mod is enforcing unwritten content rules.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I am genuinely sorry though if I offended or upset you. That was not remotely my intention and I didn't mean to play down your extreme work and how grateful I am for it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

This answer you’ve given a few times now implies that /c/Risa allows bigotry and honestly, I take offense to that. I removed bigoted and uncivil comments the whole time I was modding either Risa under the same “no real rules” framework currently there.

But that's not Risa disallowing bigotry. That's you disallowing bigotry. The community itself has no public facing rules against bigotry and never has. You did and I applaud that. It's a great thing. You deserve all the props for making Risa a great place and clearing all that up. The current mod does not share that same philosophy and has not implemented that part but due to it never being stated to be part of the community, at least to us basic users like in the sidebar or something, then it's tacitly allowed. Especially when the sidebar explicitly says "no rules, just don't break the weather control network." Also just because the instance overall bans it doesn't mean that the instance steps in. There have been multiple times that something has been reported, left up by the mod on Risa, and then ignored by the admins who specifically used the phrase "we try to leave Risa reports for the Risa mods. Once it’s been handled at that level, we’ll determine whether we want to escalate it to the higher level."

The core reason that TenForward was created was directly responding to the lack of written rules that are visible for the user. Background rules that the mods are using aren't clear to users and aren't helpful to us.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Community rules are absolutely subordinate to instance rules and the instance rules are fully public. Therefore, Risa's written policy is no bigotry, and it always has been.

Of course that's the policy. I wouldn't have volunteered my time and effort to a project that didn't have that written in stone as a core principle.

Now, if that written policy is going unenforced by mods and admins... well that's a different story. But I'll be honest: I find that very hard to believe. I disagree with the content moderation approach endorsed by the admins of that instance, but in my experience they are all tolerant and empathetic individuals.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Community rules are absolutely subordinate to instance rules and the instance rules are fully public. Therefore, Risa’s written policy is no bigotry, and it always has been.

That's a very fair point and I'm sorry for not taking that into account overall. I will make sure to keep that in mind.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No worries. You're good, and your overall guideline for setting expectations is one I strongly agree with: be transparent about what the rules are.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Still, the last thing that I want to do is cause issues here. I don't want to upset you or anyone else so really wanted to make sure that I was only saying this with the best intentions and a light tone. Hard to put that across in text sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

First Risa, now Ten Forward. Can't wait for Quark's.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I volunteer to not clean the holodeck

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Can’t wait for Quark’s.

Gaila has is own moon though, if you're not a people person.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's alive!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Neat place you got here

https://i.imgur.com/Di4YdUA.gifv

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've been watching TOS for the past months and we enjoy looking up trivia about the actors from the 60s.

This is Bruce Mars, just another up and coming actor that was building his career when he suddenly quit everything and became a religious Monk for the Self-Realization Fellowship in Los Angeles. Notable for even counseling Elvis Presley.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Huh, interesting!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Looking forward to stopping by Ten Forward for a drink

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

lemm.ee is on board finally it seems!