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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!)🖖

  • Chrisosaur@startrek.website
    2·
    2 years ago

    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?

    • Quark@startrek.website
      2·
      2 years ago

      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.

    • TeaHands@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      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.

        • TeaHands@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 years ago

          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.