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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 [email protected], Quarks is fun!
If you have any questions for the team, please don’t hesitate to ask in this thread! 🖖
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.
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?
Oh, yeah, I did! I’d kinda forgotten about having tried a bit ago as well.
How about a cool graphic / logo and some merch to promote the server?
Not a bad idea for the future!
Subbed and so glad to be here.
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 😅
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.
Ad Astra!
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?
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).
Hell yeah, thank you! One more question, are there plans to update to 0.18 so we can use it with Jerboa?
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.
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.
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.
One issue I seem to run into quite a bit now is that if I try to access a community from another instance from this account I get 404 errors as example if I try to go to: https://startrek.website/c/[email protected]
I’m wondering If this is intended behaviour or something I might have done wrong?
I think that happens when a community hasn’t fully federated with us yet. It might tags a few days, especially with the heavier-than-usual traffic across the platform.
Fair, I’ll just be patient
Looks like it’s working now!
Is this instance currently taking new registrations? It might be good to get a PSA out…
I understand you’re running 17.4 so captcha can be used. My understanding was this was done because new signups are being allowed.
When I look at various aggregators of Lemmy instance information however, w keep seeing that startrek.website is closed to signup.
Take for example the information available through Lemmy - Fediverse Network Statistics posted on fedidb.org.
As there are a significant number of unhappy redditors just now who might wish to join Lemmy but are discouraged, it would be good to confirm.
I really appreciate the simple pathway that was offered for users on r/startrek back before the subs went dark June 12th. It was a successful migration for me mostly, but I understand that there’s a largish crowd of frustrated folks who haven’t made it through.
Registrations are technically restricted to be by application only, but the bar for a successful application is incredibly low.
Unfortunately, open registration led to a flood of bot accounts across the entire Lemmy network, so that’s not a viable option.
Got it. Thanks for clarifying.
Unfortunately these aggregator pages, including the Lemmy Fediverse Observer create the impression that the site is closed completely vs. taking reasonable precautions to ensure verifiable signups.
I would recommend that any Redditors experiencing difficulty reach out to the r/startrek mod team - they should be able to coordinate support.
Thanks for this.
There was a new wave of frustrated folks looking for help on r/lemmy yesterday, mostly for lemmy.world which sounds like it was overwhelmed again, but not only that instance.
I can drop this suggestion when I see a new complaint in the megathead.
I’m mainly just on Reddit to help some of my longtime chat buddies ale the migration.
Just FYI all the instance, and community logos are rendering as broken images.
We’re aware thanks, something went wrong in the latest update, it’ll be fixed soon.
Edit: fixed now
How do I load an avatar for myself? I’ve gone to Settings --> Avatar, clicked Upload Avatar and selected an image I saved. But then I get the error message, “SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data.” I don’t know what that means. I’m guessing that I’m violating the parameters of naming an image, and/or maybe the image’s size or type? The image I was going to use is a .jpg. My only Fediverse account is this one, on startrek.website.
I’ve been unable to replicate this so far, even with a filenames containing unusual characters. Have you tried multiple pictures?
@[email protected] @[email protected]
I tried today, just before posting my comment. I tried changing the name of the image, at first the name had spaces and capital letters. I renamed the image without using caps or spaces, but it still didn’t work. Below is a screenshot of the error message I got. I’ll try using a different image.
https://i.imgur.com/YuTJkvO.jpg
edited to add: I just tried using different images and got the same error message.
@[email protected] @[email protected]
RE: My not being able to upload an image for my avatar. It’s not you, it’s me. Specifically, it was my browser. I first tried using Firefox, which is the browser I’ve always used since signing up for startrek.website. Even though I thought I had fully allowed startrek.website on Firefox, I wondered if there was something under Firefox’s hood that was the problem. What I love about Firefox can at times be problematic, what with the blocking of this, that, or the other.
So, I just tried again to add an avatar, this time using Chrome. I seldom use Chrome because it is a lot more loosey-goosey than Firefox about giving websites permissions. I was able to give myself an avatar when using Chrome to access startrek.website. I can see my avatar, and everyone else’s on Firefox and Chrome. The why of the situation is far beyond my skill set to explain. I’m going with “it worked.”
Thank you both for your prompt replies and suggestions. LLAP.
Oof, I wouldn’t have guessed that. Thanks for being the canary in that coal mine - we’ve all learned something new today.
Thanks for the update, you might want to try clearing your DNS. I’m a Firefox user as well and it’s working fine.
We haven’t been able to replicate this. Have tried this recently? Or is it an error from a few weeks ago? I ask because we had a brief issue that gave a similar error but has since been fixed.
Yes, I just have one question: was it a long road getting from there to here?
Yes it was, BUT OUR TIME IS FINALLY NEAR 🎶🎸
And now this tune is stuck in my head before bed lol
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
there’s https://startrek.website/c/[email protected] 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.
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.)
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).
@[email protected] could you make that available here please?
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.
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.
Especially if it’s international, 3 credits isn’t the same for everywhere.
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.
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.
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.
Still getting used to this egalitarian perspective.
Welcome to the Federation (in both senses)!
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
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.
Hi, this might be a silly question - no strike that, it’s definitely a silly question but one I can’t figure out: is there any way to change the default sort order of comments from “Hot”? Because I’m old, I’m used to a chrono ascending view and it would be nice not having to remember to change it every time I enter a new thread.
Thankew.
Just for posts (in your user settings) not comments yet.
“Yet” implying that’s an existing feature request in the queue for implementation? I hope?
I’d be surprised if it’s not on the devs radar, but you can always put in a feature request here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/labels/enhancement
