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

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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! 🖖

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

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🖖)

eknobl ,
@eknobl@startrek.website avatar

This site deserves an LCARS theme.

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.

bunkyprewster ,

How about a cool graphic / logo and some merch to promote the server?

Admin OP ,
@Admin@startrek.website avatar

Not a bad idea for the future!

Zana ,

Is there a way to get rid of the space on the left and right sides of the screen and make comments and posts cover the whole browser window like old Reddit does?

Admin OP ,
@Admin@startrek.website avatar

Go into your user settings and set the theme to "mintybubble"

It's completely ugly, but it is full-width. yes, it's in our future plans to have a better theme(s).

Zana ,

Hell yeah, thank you! One more question, are there plans to update to 0.18 so we can use it with Jerboa?

ValueSubtracted Mod ,
@ValueSubtracted@startrek.website avatar

V. 0.18 disables CAPTCHA support, which we're not willing to do at this time, as there are a lot of bots on the platform. It's supposed to be re-instated in 0.18.1, so we're probably going to wait for that.

From what we understand, it should be possible to simply bypass the warning that Jerboa sends, and use the instance as normal - let us know if that's not the case.

Also, the instance can be installed as a PWA through Chrome on Android phones - I've found that to be a good experience overall.

Zana ,

That is a fair reason for not updating, thank you for the explanation :) And unless I am missing something it straight up will not let me log in.

ValueSubtracted Mod ,
@ValueSubtracted@startrek.website avatar

Ah shoot, I just confirmed this. We had tried it with Jerboa, but we were already logged in.

While we consider our options, I would suggest accessing the instance through your web browser. I don't think you'll have any issues doing it that way, and the mobile interface is pretty decent.

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.

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.

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

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.

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