okay THIS WAS A BLAST thank you for all the questions! i am so sorry i couldn't answer every single one i have to run to set now but feel free to dm me on IG @team_karim if you want to ask me anything else and i'll try my best to answer!! 🖖

Karim Diané holding a piece of paper that says "startrek.website" thursday @ 4pm"
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[–] 90 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (20 children)

We're live now!

Happy Dance

EDIT: Big THANK YOU to Karim and to everyone that left a question!! I think this went really well for our little instance and hopefully can inspire future AMAs all over the Fediverse!❤️

Also because this thread is understandably getting a lot of attention, here is a link to our Patreon. A few people have requested a higher tier, so we've finally added one🖖

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (6 children)
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    I wish more people would use that format. It's much easier to relate to your own time zone.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    Depends… I grew up with TV stations advertising shows in Eastern/Pacific time zones while I lived in neither.

    I’ve also driven to both of those time zones and can picture how many time zones away they are in my head.

    Either one of those is easier for me.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    There's an entire world of timezones that aren't the US.

    It's easier for you to remember your timezone in +- utc than making everyone else on the planet look up whatever the fuck est is every time we need to.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago*

    Well I don’t live in the US, so yeah I know. Anyway, my point is that “easier” is subjective and very much based on a person’s experience.

    I’ve looked up UTC compared to my time many times and it just doesn’t stick. I don’t know what the current UTC time is but I could tell you what time it is in Newfoundland no problem. 🤷‍♂️

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Over a million upvotes on this post!

    Incredible engagement all.

    Certainly an instance record but is that a Lemmy record? Are many of those upvotes coming via other APIs or is it just Lemmy’s

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    I have no idea where you're seeing a million, I'm seeing 1,300. But that's still very high for the fediverse! And it's definitely the highest we've ever had in one of our local communities.

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  • [–] 23 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    30 more minutes! God I'm excited!

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  • [–] 61 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    +24 hours. But you can still be excited!

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  • [–] 23 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Oh well. Guess I gotta be patient. Thanks for the heads up!

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  • [–] 34 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    We wanted to make sure there was lots of time to accumulate questions, but the Fediverse is unsurprisingly rising to the occasion.

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