UPDATED 9-3: StarTrek.website - Lemmy info, FAQ, Patreon info, future plans, and more! (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 15 points 1 year ago

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

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

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

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

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

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

[-] Admin@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

You are most welcome 🖖

[-] 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.

[-] StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

Sharing user data with a an instance with a firm that exists to monetize data seems a fundamental violation of what the fediverse is.

[-] Admin@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

The "user data" (comments, posts, votes, etc) that would be available to a hypothetical instance owned my Meta is already public for anyone, so not much we have control over there. "Defederating" essentially just means "blanket banning" a bunch of users at once.

[-] StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

Agreed that it’s public now - in the case of up/downvoting publication is instance-dependent — and can be scraped, but as a federated instance Meta can just load it directly.

[-] Admin@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago

True, but if Meta (or anyone) wanted to "directly" get that data, it would be as trivial as setting up an instance on something as small as a Raspberry Pi and subscribing to a community here. We would have no way of knowing who it is or stopping them. Defederation is a tool to prevent brigading, not lurking.

If (if) Meta wanted to set a lemmy-style platform, preemptively defederating from it would be a largely symbolic gesture. Doesn't mean it's not worth doing, like I said we'll cross that bridge if and when it becomes relevant.

[-] bflipp@vmst.io 4 points 1 year ago

@StillPaisleyCat Federating only happens through user interactions unless you have agreements between instance hosts IIRC. Not there wouldn’t possibly be a huge amount of Threads users following Mastodon accounts which would then push the Mastodon user’s profile/posts into a federated or “global” feed in Threads. Federation in itself isn’t an all you can eat pass to Fediverse data. Defederation would stop the above example of data sharing though.

[-] bflipp@vmst.io 2 points 1 year ago

@StillPaisleyCat TBH with Threads only having an algorithmic feed I have serious doubts they’ll ever be able to truly “Federate” in any meaningful way beyond being able to tick a checkbox for ActivityPub integration. They aren’t going to want me using a Mastodon client to be able to read their chronological feed and not be served ads.

[-] Maven@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago

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)

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

[-] lwaxana_katana@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago

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

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

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

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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[-] lxskllr@mastodon.world 3 points 1 year ago

@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.

[-] Admin@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

That's a great point! Also I'm very happy to hear we were your entry into the "threadiverse". We'll look into some options.

[-] knobl@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

We need an LCARS theme for this site.

[-] BadExampleMan@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

Hi, this might be a silly question - no strike that, it's definitely a silly question but one I can't figure out: is there any way to change the default sort order of comments from "Hot"? Because I'm old, I'm used to a chrono ascending view and it would be nice not having to remember to change it every time I enter a new thread.

Thankew.

[-] Admin@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

Just for posts (in your user settings) not comments yet.

[-] BadExampleMan@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

"Yet" implying that's an existing feature request in the queue for implementation? I hope?

[-] Admin@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

I'd be surprised if it's not on the devs radar, but you can always put in a feature request here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/labels/enhancement

[-] Admin@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

Hmm lol Cheers Grin Drunk Clapping Smiling Wink Facepalm Laugh Yes Annoyed

[-] Tired8281@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

Is there an LCARS theme for Lemmy? I saw another instance running the Voyager theme and it got me thinking...

[-] Admin@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

There's a Voyager theme? What instance? I'd love to add it here.

[-] Tired8281@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

Lemmy.ca has it. It used to be called wefwef.

[-] Admin@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

OH, yes. vger.app is a web app (aka forntend), not a theme. It's also not "Voyager" (the show) themed per-se, I believe it's based off of the old Reddit app Apollo.

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[-] stant@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

Ad Astra!

[-] StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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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[-] Acid@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

One issue I seem to run into quite a bit now is that if I try to access a community from another instance from this account I get 404 errors as example if I try to go to: https://startrek.website/c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world

I'm wondering If this is intended behaviour or something I might have done wrong?

[-] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think that happens when a community hasn't fully federated with us yet. It might tags a few days, especially with the heavier-than-usual traffic across the platform.

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[-] espais@programming.dev 1 points 1 year 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.

[-] Nagaram@readit.buzz 1 points 1 year ago

Hey @Admin what are the odds of becoming @Computer?

[-] Admin@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

Lower now that you've said it out loud

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