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

https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/590456a7-0f95-4e61-968a-c688dd564033.jpeg

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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 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?

https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/c31d19fe-0f9e-4957-a27e-abb733c2d265.png Follow us on Mastodon for updates, scheduled maintenance, etc.

Where can I talk with Trekkies about non-Trek stuff?

We’ve just opened a new “offtopic” community, welcome to !quarks, Quarks is fun!

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

Maven ,
@Maven@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

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 ,
@ipha@lemm.ee avatar

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 ,
@Maven@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

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

lwaxana_katana ,

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.

techno156 ,

Especially if it's international, 3 credits isn't the same for everywhere.

Admin OP ,
@Admin@startrek.website avatar

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 ,

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 OP ,
@Admin@startrek.website avatar

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 ,

Still getting used to this egalitarian perspective.

Welcome to the Federation (in both senses)!

porthos ,
@porthos@startrek.website avatar

Maybe we could just reward people with ferengi themed flair for donating on patreon? Then all other types of flair could be kept unrelated to money or ferengis and be rewarded for stuff that doesn’t require money :P

Nmyownworld ,
@Nmyownworld@startrek.website avatar

lwaxana_katana, great point. I agree with you. It’s something I hadn’t thought about until you mentioned it. I’d rather see time and energy go to making startrek.website more and more awesome, rather than have something that differentiates the can donate from the can’t donate. Sometimes I have spare quatloos; sometimes I’m searching the couch cushion for quatloos. Startrek.website knows who donates. I think that’s good enough.

Sorry for not doing your name correctly. I’m still learning and not yet at the how to direct a comment at a particular person part of my learning curve.

leopardboy ,
@leopardboy@netmonkey.tech avatar

I’ve joined the Patreon, but I won’t be opening an account on the instance since I’ll be following your communities from my own. Thanks so much!

Admin OP ,
@Admin@startrek.website avatar

Counselor, I am happy to read this… and yet I am crying. Perhaps my emotion chip is malfunctioning? (thank you so much🖖)

knobl ,
@knobl@startrek.website avatar

We need an LCARS theme for this site.

eknobl ,
@eknobl@startrek.website avatar

This site deserves an LCARS theme.

loremipsum ,

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

ValueSubtracted Mod ,
@ValueSubtracted@startrek.website avatar
  1. It was one of the few that wasn’t taken.
  2. It made us laugh.
cygnathreadbare ,
@cygnathreadbare@masto.ai avatar

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

Continuumguy ,

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

Admin OP ,
@Admin@startrek.website avatar

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

ButtholeSpiders ,
@ButtholeSpiders@startrek.website avatar

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

Tired8281 ,

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

Admin OP ,
@Admin@startrek.website avatar

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

Tired8281 ,

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

Admin OP ,
@Admin@startrek.website avatar

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.

Tired8281 ,

I feel like LCARS would work here. I can picture it in my mind but I have no aptitude with graphics programs.

edit: prnt.sc/Qd-GDs3UlhUS See, I suck at graphics.

Admin OP ,
@Admin@startrek.website avatar

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

yerald ,

Hey, I can’t figure out how to send @williams_482 a message without having an account here, so I’m just posting here. I'm trying to join startrek.website but my account keeps getting stuck in the spinning circle of death. Can you help me out? account name @yerald just like here.

williams_482 ,
@williams_482@startrek.website avatar

Hey Yerald,

Someone signed up with that name on our instance on June 24, and Lemmy will not allow multiple accounts with the same name. This is two days after your kbin account was created; did you attempt to create an account on here then?

yerald ,

Oh, yeah, I did! I’d kinda forgotten about having tried a bit ago as well.

Reva ,

I’d love to see a community dedicated to sharing fan work, like cosplay, fanfiction or fanart. Right now, quark’s seems too off topic for that, DI and Risa are obviously not the right place, and the main Trek community seems to be focused on serious discussion about the shows.

ValueSubtracted Mod ,
@ValueSubtracted@startrek.website avatar

Right now, content like that is welcome in c/startrek - it’s a pretty big tent.

That’s not to say we’d never set up a dedicated community for something like that, but we’d want to be sure that’s the way to go.

Tired8281 ,

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 ,
@williams_482@startrek.website avatar

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.

Interesting ,

How much does a Lemmy instance cost to host?

Admin OP ,
@Admin@startrek.website avatar

That depends! You can run an instance on an old PC for just yourself and some friends for next to nothing, but a bigger instance with lots of traffic can easily climb to hundreds per month or more. No idea where we’ll end up when things slow down, but the subreddits this server represent currently have more users than the entire Lemmy-verse 😅

Interesting ,

I’m just trying to get a rough idea of the order of magnitude. Has this instance exceeded “old PC” (For discussion’s sake, an 8 core i7-9700k with 32 gigabytes of RAM) yet?

Admin OP ,
@Admin@startrek.website avatar

Your definition of “old pc” is much nicer than mine. No we’re not there yet! But likely within the next few months. Lemmy.world recently made this post which you may find educational.

KBSez ,
@KBSez@kbin.social avatar

What about kbin

FaceDeer ,
@FaceDeer@kbin.social avatar

I'm viewing this from kbin.social right now, so that's an option.

Admin OP ,
@Admin@startrek.website avatar

Lemmy seemed like an easier transition, but I’m definitely keeping an eye on the development of both.

Xtallll ,
@Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

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

Admin OP ,
@Admin@startrek.website avatar

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

Edit: fixed now

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