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nuqneH!

Welcome to our new home in the Fed~~eration~~iverse. First of all- WOW we did not expect to surpass 300 users on this instance (and over 1K fediverse subscribers) within our first 48 hours and with little promotional effort. We are all excited to see where this long road goes.

Coming from Reddit and confused about Lemmy?

I had some stuff typed out, but honestly, this thread sums it up better. Check it out! It has infographics.

If you're still stressed out, remember that Lemmy is still new. Yes, it's ugly, but people said Reddit was ugly too (both are correct). As Lemmy grows, and #Rexxit continues, more tools will get made. Decentralization opens up a lot of possibilities we didn't have before. The future is bright.

Will other communities be setting up shop besides StarTrek, DaystromInstitute and Risa?

Yes! Eventually. Right now our focus is staying online, fast, and reliable which means keeping things focused while we find our footing. Daystrom, StarTrek and Risa were chosen to start off with because the three of them cover the "srs bsns ↔ shitposting" spread quite well.

If you are part of a community interested in being hosted on startrek.website, send me a DM and we can try to work something out.

Qapla'! How can I support?

We've started a Patreon here: Patreon.com/treksite. There's only one plan and it's just $4. If our growth continues like it has, we're going to need to upgrade our hosting very soon.

What's up with the "unencrypted DMs" warning?

Read here

I feel like I'm not seeing everything. What gives?

Lemmy is weird with languages. In your user settings, make sure “Language” is set to both “English” and “Undetermined”. You can select additional languages as well, but they aren’t currently allowed on this server. On desktop, you can use CTRL+click to select both options. This will allow you to see content for which the author has not set a language, and content which has been set to “English”.

This will hopefully be made more clear with future updates.

Thumbnails acting weird/not showing up (for users on another instance)?

Add this exception to your adblocker (replace "lemmy.world" with your instance):

@@||*/pictrs/*$domain=lemmy.world

Where can I find official server updates?

Follow us on Mastodon for updates, scheduled maintenance, etc.

Where can I talk with Trekkies about non-Trek stuff?

We've just opened a new "offtopic" community, welcome to !quarks@startrek.website, Quarks is fun!


If you have any questions for the team, please don't hesitate to ask in this thread! 🖖

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[–] quark42@startrek.website 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Is there a list with instances you have blocked or are you currently federating with all other instances?

Edit: There is a list with all instances at the bottom of the site

[–] dystop@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Ooh how exciting! I can't wait to talk about everything Star Trek related - lightsabers, Death Stars, droids and more!

(Jk don't ban me lol)

[–] qat@startrek.website 4 points 2 years ago

*angry eye twitch*

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[–] slashzero@hakbox.social 4 points 2 years ago (8 children)

@Admin@startrek.website startrek.website is returning a 502 bad gateway error.

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[–] stant@startrek.website 4 points 2 years ago
[–] Lockely@pawb.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Tossed a few slips of GPL your way. I'll be staying on my current instance, but good Trek discussion is a must have.

[–] Navi@startrek.website 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Really glad to find this place, looking forward to being part of the community,

Regarding donations though: Would you be able to share details on costs and how any Patreon money is spent?

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[–] espais@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago

I can't seem to dm you for some reason (maybe because I'm registered on programming.dev?), but if you were interested I'd love to get startrekgifs running here with a clean start.

[–] porthos@startrek.website 4 points 2 years ago

Thank you for all your hard work, I am broke af right now but I will definitely contribute to a patreon once I get a steady income again!

This is a really cool moment to be involved in the future of social media, this community might be humble and small right now but it is part of the bleeding edge of the evolution of social media.

[–] emmanuel@startrek.website 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Hi! I have questions on how federation works on Lemmy. In Mastodon, if someone post something from an other instance, I can see it directly, if me or someone else from my own instance follow the poster. I thought it worked like that in Lemmy too, but I started following some communities in other instances, and I can't see all the new messages (for example, compare !france@lemmy.world and startrek.website/c/france@lemmy.world; if you have the same problem as me, a lot of new messages will not appear, even if I subscribed a few days ago). Is it a problem from Lemmy, a decision from startrek.website, or a problem with my account precisely?

Thanks for your help!

[–] z500@startrek.website 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I've noticed that too. I'm subscribed to a few communities that are still completely empty on this instance.

[–] branflakes1413@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

I'm new to these kinds of sites, but like to think I can navigate my way, haha. It's great and kind of refreshing that everything is so interconnected though and only need one sign in to view across content!

I've tried using Mastodon app and this other website called Beehaw. So, in my experience I can sub, but in order to see content from here I have to physically navigate through the communities > subscribed page.

I'm just going to be patient with it... it's propably just buggy because it's new. :P

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[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 4 points 2 years ago

Subbed and so glad to be here.

[–] lxskllr@mastodon.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Admin

I realize I'm kind of a PITA with my idiosyncrasies, but I'd like you to consider a way of taking 'one and done' donations. I tend to avoid recurring automated subscriptions.

There might be others like me, and you could pickup a couple dollars here and there from one-offs.

I don't have a lemmy acct anywhere at this point, but I like what you're doing, and I spend time here, so I'd like to support you without making a commitment.

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[–] StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Is this instance currently taking new registrations? It might be good to get a PSA out…

I understand you’re running 17.4 so captcha can be used. My understanding was this was done because new signups are being allowed.

When I look at various aggregators of Lemmy instance information however, w keep seeing that startrek.website is closed to signup.

Take for example the information available through Lemmy - Fediverse Network Statistics posted on fedidb.org.

As there are a significant number of unhappy redditors just now who might wish to join Lemmy but are discouraged, it would be good to confirm.

I really appreciate the simple pathway that was offered for users on r/startrek back before the subs went dark June 12th. It was a successful migration for me mostly, but I understand that there’s a largish crowd of frustrated folks who haven’t made it through.

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[–] Ihavenostories@startrek.website 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Lemmy seems nice, next we need an app

[–] porthos@startrek.website 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

More apps will be made. Until this recent reddit debacle, lemmy was an interesting fediverse software but while it had a stable community of users it really hadn't hit any major growth spikes that began to broaden its use.

Now lemmy will definitely be a target of a lot more app development since there are just so many more people using it!

[–] bluedepth@startrek.website 3 points 2 years ago

I too searched for mlem, but it's beta/testflight so as a worthwhile compromise, I opened this up in my mobile safari and saved it as a shortcut to my app pages in iOS. It's really just the website in mobile safari, but it's good enough for me at the moment, until Apollo gets possibly re-written for Fediverse/ActivityPub traffic.

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[–] loremipsum@startrek.website 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Why "startrek.website"? When the ".social" and ".news" TLD exist and seem more fitting?

[–] cygnathreadbare@masto.ai 4 points 2 years ago

@loremipsum @Admin also, the copyright owners are a bit shitty regarding fan things, not sure how they will react to this domain.

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[–] bunkyprewster@startrek.website 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How about a cool graphic / logo and some merch to promote the server?

[–] Admin@startrek.website 3 points 2 years ago

Not a bad idea for the future!

[–] Zana@startrek.website 3 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Is there a way to get rid of the space on the left and right sides of the screen and make comments and posts cover the whole browser window like old Reddit does?

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