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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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[–] Continuumguy@startrek.website 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, I just have one question: was it a long road getting from there to here?

[–] Admin@startrek.website 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes it was, BUT OUR TIME IS FINALLY NEAR 🎶🎸

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[–] lwaxana_katana@startrek.website 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Fwiw, I am very happy to support the patreon but I don't feel great about it being attached to server perks. For some people $4/mo is nothing at all and for others it is genuinely significant. I don't want the Star Trek instance of all instances to be rewarding those who can afford to contribute financially.

[–] Admin@startrek.website 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a good point I hadn't considered, appreciate the insight. As long as we can pay the bills with what comes in, I suppose for now we'll just stick with what we've got.

[–] lwaxana_katana@startrek.website 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hooray, thank you! Fwiw, it is the donations model that is most common in FOSS projects (pay what/if you can) and I think it engenders a better sense of community, and I certainly feel more inclined to pay for something just so support it rather than because of any particular "perks" I might get, which are geeeenerally not really worth the money per se. I also would prefer your time to be spent on the actual server and not on having to integrate the various perks/linking accounts to patreon/etc etc.

[–] Admin@startrek.website 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The only perk we had in mind thus far was some user flair (whenever that inevitably gets invented). But you make a great point. Still getting used to this egalitarian perspective.

[–] TeMPOraL@startrek.website 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Still getting used to this egalitarian perspective.

Welcome to the Federation (in both senses)!

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[–] techno156@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Especially if it's international, 3 credits isn't the same for everywhere.

[–] Nmyownworld@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

lwaxana_katana, great point. I agree with you. It's something I hadn't thought about until you mentioned it. I'd rather see time and energy go to making startrek.website more and more awesome, rather than have something that differentiates the can donate from the can't donate. Sometimes I have spare quatloos; sometimes I'm searching the couch cushion for quatloos. Startrek.website knows who donates. I think that's good enough.

Sorry for not doing your name correctly. I'm still learning and not yet at the how to direct a comment at a particular person part of my learning curve.

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[–] dystop@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (2 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)

[–] Admin@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
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[–] leopardboy@netmonkey.tech 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've joined the Patreon, but I won't be opening an account on the instance since I'll be following your communities from my own. Thanks so much!

[–] Admin@startrek.website 11 points 1 year ago

Counselor, I am happy to read this... and yet I am crying. Perhaps my emotion chip is malfunctioning? (thank you so much🖖)

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey! Just wanted to say thanks to the admins here. I was interested inblemmy but didn't know where to jump on until I saw the startrek server then I knew I was ready to move along home.

Alamarian!

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[–] kargarocP4@startrek.website 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For the record, if you want to stay on top of discussion on the front page, make sure you sort by new. I'd argue that should probably be the default for now.

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[–] leecheroflife@startrek.website 10 points 1 year ago

Decided to join the exodus and couldn't think of a better place to land.

Going to take a bit of time wrapping my head around Lemmy but can't support Reddit anymore.

Thanks to everyone who put the effort in to make this so.

[–] Devastm@startrek.website 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Personally I think if you can customize the visuals, you guys should totally go for an LCARS style theme as that would be amazing. Maybe even get the exact typeface for it too.

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[–] StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ve also joined the Patreon, appreciate the low flat-rate membership.

Hopefully, this place can get broad membership, enough to cover the storage etc.

Based on the first 48 hours, no reason not to dream big.

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[–] Lockely@pawb.social 9 points 1 year 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.

[–] Newby@startrek.website 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I appreciate the effort. Your actions are directly related to me finally giving lemmy and the fediverse a shot. I offer my support (patreon and whatever) for however long I can.

Looking forward to exploring this strange new world.

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[–] leandrotlz@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago

Congratulations on the move; here's hoping other communities follow suit.

[–] astroturds@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've seen a bit of drama in other Lemmy instances about various things and it's made me think startrek.website needs a very clear set of rules.

[–] Tired8281@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Any chance for a ShittyDaystrom? I don't want to mod it (I'm a terrible mod) but I sure would love to shitpost there.

edit: seems like the only active mod on ShittyDaystrom on Reddit has ran a script to edit all their old comments, and Reddit suspended them for it. The sub on Reddit appears to be running fine with no mods. I think it would be a fine candidate for creating a community here, the people in the Reddit sub are happily shitposting Star Trek memes with no active mods at all. If someone who is not a terrible mod, like myself, would like to take it on, I seriously doubt it will be much work.

[–] williams_482@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are some huge fans of shittydaystrom on the team here, we'll definitely be hosting a community for that eventually. For the moment, we're worried about fracturing users by creating too many different communities.

If you have a shittydaystrom appropriate thing you want to post, stick it in /c/Risa. I'll upvote it.

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[–] lupomancer@furries.club 6 points 1 year ago

@Admin This is great!!!

[–] goldenarchmage@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A potentially stupid question so I apologise in advance. Am I right in thinking that this community is sitting on a Lemmy-based server, but it just has an unusual name rather than the typical xxxxx.lemmy/lemmy.xxxxx format?

[–] a_random_fox@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 year ago

I don't think the website name is that unusual, there are plenty of lemmy servers with names that don't contain the word "lemmy" like feddit.de, discuss.tchncs.de, beehaw.org or pawb.social.

[–] Admin@startrek.website 9 points 1 year ago

You are correct. The server runs Linux, and Lemmy is software running on that server. The URL (startrek.website) points to the server's IP. There's no requirement for the URL to be called "Lemmy", that's just what a lot of people do. Also I don't think .Lemmy is an available option, though that would be cool.

[–] GummySquirrel@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Hi, I've just been reading about the case to defederate from fb/meta instances (https://startrek.website/post/289809?scrollToComments=true) and was wondering if the team was aware of the fedipact?

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[–] Supermassive@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Really nice, thanks for making this.

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[–] s_s@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago

Welcome to the Federation, r/starTrek!

[–] tukarrs@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago

I find installing an addon that redirects r/startrek to this website has been helping my pavlov response.

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