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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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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 [email protected], Quarks is fun!

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

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Lemmy seems nice, next we need an app

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year 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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Spotted this from way over on mastodon.social! I knew the moment I spotted it, that I had to get on-board. Got the account, yaaay! Next up, Patreon.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

General Lemmy question, and apologies if this isn’t the place. I found a community I want to subscribe to. [email protected]. Tried to search for it in various different ways, and kept getting no results. Used various formats and got nowhere. Eventually I navigated to startrek.website/c/[email protected] and found the community. I’ve now been able to subscribe to the community, but can’t see old posts.

Will I ever be able to? If I want to interact with older posts, am I SOL, or do I just need to be patient until older posts sync?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just to add to the other response, if there's an older post you really want to reply to you can actually search for the post URL itself, and that'll pull it into your home instance. You won't get all the comments (unless you want to go through each one and search for their URLs as well but I'm guessing no), but you can reply to the post just fine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Searched for the URL, still not showing up. Could it be a limitation of the instance I’m on?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you're the first person to search for it from your instance there's usually a bit of a delay on the search, it'll show as no results then after a few seconds it'll suddenly pop up a result. Make sure you're searching "all" and not "communities" or "comments" or whathaveyou.

I've also seen some people say they had to do the search to kick off the process, then come back a few minutes later when it'd finally been pulled in and search again and only THEN would it show up.

Not ideal user experience, I'll grant you.

If it's still not showing up after a couple of minutes then I'm not sure what else would be affecting it, sorry! You can check out https://startrek.website/instances to see which other instances yours has blocked, but as you can see sh.itjust.works should be fine.

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[–] [email protected] 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?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Could you add more (all) languages in the settings for us to enable? I cannot see some posts because of this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes it's on my list. Still finding out footing over here!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

How does a Star Trek virgin go about losing one's card? There must be a generally agreed order of approach to all the series and films by now. (The breadth and longevity of it has kept me wary.)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There actually isn’t a generally agreed order of approach, and many folks tend to assume what worked for them will be what’s best for others.

Most of the shows were designed to stand alone if need be, and can provide an entry point. They’ll fill you in on the essential lore along the way.

At this point, your own tolerances for 60s and 90s styles of television and visual effects might be a deciding point. If you want to jump right in with something new, Strange New Worlds is designed as the new live action entry to the franchise - but others have started recently with the animated comedy Lower Decks or the family show Prodigy.

There was a sidebar “Where do I start?” FAQ on the subreddit that listed options (release date; in-universe chronological; by personal preferences for serialization or not).

@[email protected] could you make that available here please?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just FYI all the instance, and community logos are rendering as broken images.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We're aware thanks, something went wrong in the latest update, it'll be fixed soon.

Edit: fixed now

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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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