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Welcome to our new home in the Federationiverse. 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.
Will supporters have perks?
Yes! Eventually. We’re still working that out. Which means we owe an extra big thank Thank you to those of you who are contributing now.
Probably not (unless you’re Ferengi). See comment
If you have any questions for the team, please don’t hesitate to ask in this thread (and yes the discussion thread for the Strange New Worlds season premiere will be up on /c/StarTrek later today, stay tuned!)🖖
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.
I find installing an addon that redirects r/startrek to this website has been helping my pavlov response.
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.
Was pretty skeptical about all this stuff, but it seems like y’all have succeeded in moving a good chunk of people from Reddit to this new place, which hopefully bodes well for the future.
Hopefully y’all will be able to keep moderation functioning well, especially considering that a lot of Folks’ll stay split between here and the Reddit subs. Like the biggest reason (IMO, of course) that r/DaystromInstitute is/was one of the best subs out there was just how effective the moderators are/were.
The Daystrom people are cream of the crop. They also seem very dedicated to the idea of migrating their community out of reach from spez. I think we’ve all been surprised by the enthusiasm, especially considering how Lemmy is still very much beta software (but quickly evolving).
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!
That warms my cold android heart to hear. We set this place exactly for people like you who wanted a good jumping off point. Welcome!
Just FYI all the instance, and community logos are rendering as broken images.
We’re aware thanks, something went wrong in the latest update, it’ll be fixed soon.
For some reason images and logos are now showing on chrome but still not on Firefox or Edge.
Something went wrong in the latest update, it’ll be fixed soon. It’s probably working in Chrome because the images are cached from before.
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.
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.)
Thanks
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).
@ValueSubtracted@startrek.website could you make that available here please?
We are looking into it - we don’t have a wiki up and running just yet, but we’ll see about getting it up somewhere ASAP.
alternatively start with Wrath of Khan
General Lemmy question, and apologies if this isn’t the place. I found a community I want to subscribe to. !buyitforlife@sh.itjust.works. 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/buyitforlife@sh.itjust.works 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?
You will probably only see posts that were made after you subscribed to it. Lemmy only starts syncing with communities from other instances after they have at least one subscriber.
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.
Searched for the URL, still not showing up. Could it be a limitation of the instance I’m on?
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.
Appreciate the help. Tried all this several times with no luck.
Any way to add LCARS themes or other Trek themes for the layout? I’ve been really wanting a TOS Movie themed layout on Reddit and other sites in general for the longest time.
It’s in the list of things to add for sure. But if you’re good at theming you can actually make a theme just for yourself.
Like the old MySpace?
Someone pointed out this persons LCARS css themes to me on another thread, they might at the very least be some good inspiration for someone who was interested and knew how to translate a theme like this to lemmy.
Very cool, thanks for sharing this!
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?
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.
Sharing user data with a an instance with a firm that exists to monetize data seems a fundamental violation of what the fediverse is.
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.
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.
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.
Is it possible to create a new community? I can’t find how.
Not yet, but hopefully some day.
Could you add more (all) languages in the settings for us to enable? I cannot see some posts because of this.
Yes it’s on my list. Still finding out footing over here!
