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

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nuqneH!

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! 🖖

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🖖)

Nagaram ,

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

Admin OP ,
@Admin@startrek.website avatar

Lower now that you’ve said it out loud

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.

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.

Lockely ,
@Lockely@pawb.social avatar

Tossed a few slips of GPL your way. I’ll be staying on my current instance, but good Trek discussion is a must have.

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

guzzi ,
@guzzi@moto.teamswollen.org avatar

This is great, I subbed. I am trying to setup a server dedicated to motorcycling (r/motorcycles etc). Really like that we can setup specialty sites. Usenet 2.0

qat ,

there's https://startrek.website/c/[email protected] on another instance, which you can interact with even from here!

guzzi ,
@guzzi@moto.teamswollen.org avatar

Late response I am chatting with you via my own instance. moto.teamswollen.org

The "Federation of servers" is a great way to handle this. I am surprised how will it works even in it infancy.

Long live the Federation.

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.

espais ,
@espais@programming.dev avatar

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.

Devastm ,

Personally I think if you can customize the visuals, you guys should totally go for an LCARS style theme as that would be amazing. Maybe even get the exact typeface for it too.

xyguy ,

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!

ode ,
@ode@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

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.)

StillPaisleyCat ,
@StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website avatar

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 could you make that available here please?

ValueSubtracted Mod ,
@ValueSubtracted@startrek.website avatar

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.

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

Kestrel ,

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.

qat ,

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.

As long as there is enough people here to have a thriving discussion, we can be self-sustaining.

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.

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