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Welcome to our new home in the Fed~~eration~~iverse. 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.

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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.

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This will hopefully be made more clear with future updates.

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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!


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[–] lxskllr@mastodon.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Admin

I realize I'm kind of a PITA with my idiosyncrasies, but I'd like you to consider a way of taking 'one and done' donations. I tend to avoid recurring automated subscriptions.

There might be others like me, and you could pickup a couple dollars here and there from one-offs.

I don't have a lemmy acct anywhere at this point, but I like what you're doing, and I spend time here, so I'd like to support you without making a commitment.

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[–] Zana@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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).

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[–] quark42@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Could you add more (all) languages in the settings for us to enable? I cannot see some posts because of this.

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[–] loremipsum@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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

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[–] StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

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.

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[–] bunkyprewster@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Admin@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

Not a bad idea for the future!

[–] JuicyShaqMeat@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any way to add LCARS themes or other Trek themes for the layout? I've been really wanting a TOS Movie themed layout on Reddit and other sites in general for the longest time.

[–] Admin@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's in the list of things to add for sure. But if you're good at theming you can actually make a theme just for yourself.

Like the old MySpace?

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[–] Tired8281@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Admin@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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[–] ode@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

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@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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@startrek.website could you make that available here please?

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[–] Acid@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world

I'm wondering If this is intended behaviour or something I might have done wrong?

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[–] Nmyownworld@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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.

[–] Admin@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

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.

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[–] BadExampleMan@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

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