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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 $4. If our growth continues like it has, we’re going to need to upgrade our hosting very soon.
What’s up with the “unencrypted DMs” warning?
I feel like I’m not seeing everything. What gives?
Lemmy is weird with languages. In your user settings, make sure “Language” is set to both “English” and “Undetermined”. You can select additional languages as well, but they aren’t currently allowed on this server. On desktop, you can use CTRL+click to select both options. This will allow you to see content for which the author has not set a language, and content which has been set to “English”.
This will hopefully be made more clear with future updates.
Thumbnails acting weird/not showing up (for users on another instance)?
Add this exception to your adblocker (replace “lemmy.world” with your instance):
@@||*/pictrs/*$domain=lemmy.world
Where can I find official server updates?
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@startrek.website, Quarks is fun!
If you have any questions for the team, please don’t hesitate to ask in this thread! 🖖
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I saw most of TNG and all of Voyager and DS9 during their initial runs as a kid and to this day Voyager is still my favorite Trek series. It can be a little variable at times with guest writers, like the warp 10 thing, and the series finale manages to be one of the most anti-climactic of anything I’ve ever seen, but it had a real killer of an ensemble cast, a larger story, and a surprising amount of character development. And I know I already mentioned the cast but it’s hard not to love mama bear Janeway
My wife has always casually liked TOS but had never seen all of TNG or any of DS9 or VOY. We watched all of them together during lockdown. She liked them all, but Voyager was her favorite of the bunch, too
@Admin This is great!!!
I’m viewing this from kbin.social right now, so that’s an option.
How much does a Lemmy instance cost to host?
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 😅
Might help give an idea. Beehaw published their financials here
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?
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.
I’ve also joined the Patreon, appreciate the low flat-rate membership.
Hopefully, this place can get broad membership, enough to cover the storage etc.
Based on the first 48 hours, no reason not to dream big.
Yes, I just have one question: was it a long road getting from there to here?
And now this tune is stuck in my head before bed lol
there’s https://startrek.website/c/motorcycles@lemmy.world on another instance, which you can interact with even from here!
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.
Ooh how exciting! I can’t wait to talk about everything Star Trek related - lightsabers, Death Stars, droids and more!
(Jk don’t ban me lol)
oh nice GIF, is that Obi-Wan Kenobi?
(ok i’ll stop)
jar jar binks I think
“Use the force, Kirk.”
“Help me, Spock. You’re my only hope.”
“Beam me up, Skywalker!”
“This isn’t the Data you’re looking for. Move along.”
“To boldly go where no Jedi has gone before”
“You’ve never heard of the Enterprise? … It’s the ship that made the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs.”
“Set sabers to stun!”
*angry eye twitch*
It’s a
shipshuttle that goes through thegatewormhole. It’s a wormhole-shuttle.…okay, now I understand why he isn’t allowed to name things anymore.
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.
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.
No problem! It automatically notifies users when you reply directly to their posts or comment. :)
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.
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
For those wondering, Patreon is charging the equivalent of $US 4 in whatever the member’s currency happens to be, rounded to the nearest full unit.
For Canadians, that turns out to be $CDN 6 + HST.
I don’t think I’ve been charged HST on Patreon membership contributions previously.
It’s charging GST for Australia also. I am happy to pay that, though, since otherwise it would be the proceeds of the Patreon having to pay all the various taxes, which is a bit cannibalistic.
EDIT: It ends up being just over $7 AUD if anyone is wondering.
Vat For UK - total comes to £4.20 a month
A potentially stupid question so I apologise in advance. Am I right in thinking that this community is sitting on a Lemmy-based server, but it just has an unusual name rather than the typical xxxxx.lemmy/lemmy.xxxxx format?
I don’t think the website name is that unusual, there are plenty of lemmy servers with names that don’t contain the word “lemmy” like feddit.de, discuss.tchncs.de, beehaw.org or pawb.social.
You are correct. The server runs Linux, and Lemmy is software running on that server. The URL (startrek.website) points to the server’s IP. There’s no requirement for the URL to be called “Lemmy”, that’s just what a lot of people do. Also I don’t think .Lemmy is an available option, though that would be cool.
