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UPDATED 9-3: StarTrek.website - Lemmy info, FAQ, Patreon info, future plans, and more! (startrek.website)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Admin@startrek.website to c/startrek@startrek.website

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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?

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 17 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 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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

And now this tune is stuck in my head before bed lol

[–] GummySquirrel@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago (1 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?

[–] Admin@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago (8 children)

We're aware of the pact and will cross that bridge when (or if) it ever really happens. We're certainly no fans of Meta (or Reddit,or Twitter). So far it seems more likely to affect Mastodon than Lemmy/Kbin.

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

Thanks for being on top of things and thanks for this instance

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[–] GummySquirrel@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks I will keep an eye out for updates. For this user federating with meta would feel like assimilating with the borg.

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[–] Tired8281@startrek.website 6 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 6 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.

[–] Tired8281@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago

Sounds good to me, I'll wait till you guys get it sorted out. Thanks a lot for doing this!

[–] Maven@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know if it's affecting other instances, but all images from startrek.website are denying referrals to image links from lemmy.sdf.org. In other words, all image posts show up as broken unless I open them in a new tab and refresh so the referrer becomes startrek.website. It's not affecting any of my other subbed instances, and when I open startrek.website it works fine, so I suppose something's breaking in the in-between?

[–] ipha@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's a ublock/easylist issue. It seems to be blanket blocking xhr requests to certain TLDs including .website

Add this to your filters as a workaround for now (replace lemm.ee with your instance)

@@||*/pictrs/*$domain=lemm.ee

[–] Maven@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

Oh! Thank you so much, that worked a treat. o7

[–] stant@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago

Ad Astra!

[–] lwaxana_katana@startrek.website 4 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 4 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 2 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 3 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 6 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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[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago

Subbed and so glad to be here.

[–] StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 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.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Registrations are technically restricted to be by application only, but the bar for a successful application is incredibly low.

Unfortunately, open registration led to a flood of bot accounts across the entire Lemmy network, so that's not a viable option.

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

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

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It was one of the few that wasn't taken.
It made us laugh.

[–] cygnathreadbare@masto.ai 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] emmanuel@startrek.website 3 points 1 year 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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year 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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[–] 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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