this post was submitted on 03 Feb 2026
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Mastodon is for kind middle-aged trekkies to hold forth about how to live a good life (it involves Linux, and stopping to look at the flowers)
Lemmy is for goblin-moders to vent about their mental health issues using memes
I've never heard the term trekkie before, what's it referring to?
Star Trek fandom. The series appears to be the moral compass of Mastodon.
Lemmy has a pretty big Trekkie base too. The series influenced a lot of the boomer generation.