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SpacePics

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A community dedicated to sharing high quality images of space and the cosmos

Rules:

  1. Include some context in the title (such as the name of the astronomical object or location where it was photographed)

  2. Only images, pictures, collages, albums, and gifs are allowed. Please link images from high quality sources (Imgur, NASA, ESA, Flickr, 500px , etc.) Videos, interactive images/websites, memes, and articles are not allowed

  3. Only submit images related to space. This may include pictures of space, artwork of space, photoshopped images of space, simulations, artist's depictions, satellite images of Earth, or other related images

  4. Be civil to one another

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The activity here is starting to grow and its exciting seeing the engagement and conversations increase. If you're a lurker please post and comment so we can attract new members and build this into a bustling community.

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[–] RubberDucky@programming.dev 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm gonna be a semi silent updooter

[–] Venutianxspring@lemmy.fmhy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Fine with me, I'd rather have you here, looking at pretty pictures, enjoying yourself and being semi-silent than not at all.

[–] PixeIOrange@lemmy.fmhy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

First post. Just testing. Nothing to see. Please go ahead.

[–] Martineski@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Congrats! Tbh, I didn't believe in the second wave that much because I thought that most of the caring users already switched but turns out that I was wrong and more people are actually joining which is very good. I can't wait to see for this platform to grow bigger.

[–] Venutianxspring@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Same here, but I'm seeing more and more engagement across the entire platform. It's really exciting watching things grow and I think as more people learn how to use Lemmy and they find communities they enjoy, we'll continue to see activity increase

[–] OtakuAltair@vlemmy.net 4 points 1 year ago

The main driving force is the apps moving to lemmy.

Lots of people come over if you post or comment about Sync, Boost, Slide, Infinity, Connect (similar to relay) etc

wefwef.app and Memmy are very similar to Apollo already

I am so happy that there are alot of subs like Reddit. They did not listen so we moved!

[–] makunabatata@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Had the same thoughts as you. In my mind people who cared about the issue (and not cared for the company’s response) had already taken action. There might be a second small wave now, but we might be looking at a long tail adoption. The important thing is that people find and stumble to content via search engines, and who knows when these engines will be crawling the fediverse…

[–] SuperMandy@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I tried to come over before but there were obviously challenges. Now this setup is definitely more robust and better prepared for the influx of us refugees!

[–] mcnooge@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Hey diddly hi FMHY!

[–] zatanas@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

New Lemmy user, chiming in.

[–] aport@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just subscribed, looks like an awesome community

[–] Venutianxspring@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Glad to have you!

[–] jack55555@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My favorite sub, will be more active from now on.

[–] Venutianxspring@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Awesome good to have you!

[–] EricHill78@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Glad to be here!

[–] cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

Hey I am new to this whole everything and I love it

[–] dedale@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I subscribed, good community.
Although I clicked half expecting something more literal.

[–] Gazatron303@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey all 🙂👋 Totally new to all of this and from RIF, but the Fetaverse looks exiting!

[–] Venutianxspring@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Good to have you. There's some really good communities here and looks like most of the trolls are isolated to a few instances, or still on Reddit.

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you’re a lurker please post and comment so we can attract new members and build this into a bustling community.

I like space. It's big.

I also like pretty pictures.

[–] trees@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

Count me in

[–] intelati@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I frequent NASASpaceflight. I'm assuming anything launching is fine? How about like the Starship on the pad?

Only submit images related to space. This may include pictures of space, artwork of space, photoshopped images of space, simulations, artist’s depictions, satellite images of Earth, or other related images

[–] Venutianxspring@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Sure, as long as its space related and a direct link to an image, go for it.

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't have any good sources for cutting edge stuff cause I usually get my space porn from communities like this in the first place (where are y'all getting your images?), but I shared some of the great older content I'm current using for my phone background and for art on my walls. They're very well known, though, so they're quite frankly reposts for today's lucky ten thousand (but I stand by that Exoplanet series being the best thing since sliced bread).

[–] Venutianxspring@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Honestly NASA astronomy photo of the day has hundreds of super high quality images archived so you can see them by date. I'm active on Flickr and astrobin so I see tons of images worthy of sharing on those. Imgur has a million as well.

Don't feel pressured to post if you don't want to, but if you come across anything worthy of sharing, it'd be awesome if you did

[–] Zellith@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Howdy doodily doo neighbouriinos.

[–] Venutianxspring@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Nice to have you!

[–] kiraby21@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] shatokan@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago
[–] HeapOfDogs 1 points 1 year ago

First time seeing this sub, happy to add a comment. Space is kinda neat.

[–] calhoon2005@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just found you guys. Will continue to enjoy.

[–] Venutianxspring@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Awesome, glad to have you here

[–] Seraph@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Reminder to boost each other and not just up vote!

[–] soma@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Hi! Good to be here.

[–] akatsukilevi@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Considering I've literally just nuked my Reddit account and all it's content(Thanks to Power Delete Suite), I'm going to be way more active in Kbin now!

EDIT: Missed a ) after the link

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While I admire the sentiment, I don't think anyone should hesitate to visit reddit to steal content and post it here.

I say steal, but if you're reposting content from a site that reposts content from other social media, it's fair game.

[–] akatsukilevi@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Not against it, just decided to nuke my account as I no longer agree with it's TOS
And since I no longer agree with their TOS, I do not wish to be their user anymore, and do not wish to have my content in Reddit, so PDS showed to be a valuable tool for it
Was more of a personal decision than "everyone should do it"

[–] physcx@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I love the concept and actual community content but I wish the community name would have been changed from the Reddit one. Not something I want to point my young kids at due to community name.

[–] Venutianxspring@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah I can see that, but I named it that with the intention to allow people leaving reddit to find some familiar communities to feel welcome. I don't think it detracts anything from it being related to reddit in that regard.

And I also wanted to make sure that we keep it separated from other groups that are more wide topic, so it's just pictures here

I'd be more than happy to rename it something else if the general base would like to.

[–] yumpoplala@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I agree, I'd be happy to drop all the old reddit-isms honestly

[–] KbinItTogether@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I totally get that. I'm sure there is also a small percentage of people that see the name and check out the community looking for aliens with three boobs or three dicks or dudes getting it on with living planets and find something very different.

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