Yes, I just have one question: was it a long road getting from there to here?

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.

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)

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!

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.

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!

Decided to join the exodus and couldn't think of a better place to land.

Going to take a bit of time wrapping my head around Lemmy but can't support Reddit anymore.

Thanks to everyone who put the effort in to make this so.

For the record, if you want to stay on top of discussion on the front page, make sure you sort by new. I'd argue that should probably be the default for now.

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

Congratulations on the move; here's hoping other communities follow suit.

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.

I appreciate the effort. Your actions are directly related to me finally giving lemmy and the fediverse a shot. I offer my support (patreon and whatever) for however long I can.

Looking forward to exploring this strange new world.

Any chance for a ShittyDaystrom? I don't want to mod it (I'm a terrible mod) but I sure would love to shitpost there.

edit: seems like the only active mod on ShittyDaystrom on Reddit has ran a script to edit all their old comments, and Reddit suspended them for it. The sub on Reddit appears to be running fine with no mods. I think it would be a fine candidate for creating a community here, the people in the Reddit sub are happily shitposting Star Trek memes with no active mods at all. If someone who is not a terrible mod, like myself, would like to take it on, I seriously doubt it will be much work.

I find installing an addon that redirects r/startrek to this website has been helping my pavlov response.

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 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.

Hi, I've just been reading about the case to defederate from fb/meta instances (https://startrek.website/post/289809?scrollToComments=true) and was wondering if the team was aware of the fedipact?

@Admin This is great!!!

I've seen a bit of drama in other Lemmy instances about various things and it's made me think startrek.website needs a very clear set of rules.

Thank you for all your hard work, I am broke af right now but I will definitely contribute to a patreon once I get a steady income again!

This is a really cool moment to be involved in the future of social media, this community might be humble and small right now but it is part of the bleeding edge of the evolution of social media.

Welcome to the Federation, r/starTrek!

Really nice, thanks for making this.

🖖

I don't know if it's affecting other instances, but all images from startrek.website are denying referrals to image links from lemmy.sdf.org. In other words, all image posts show up as broken unless I open them in a new tab and refresh so the referrer becomes startrek.website. It's not affecting any of my other subbed instances, and when I open startrek.website it works fine, so I suppose something's breaking in the in-between?

Spotted this from way over on mastodon.social! I knew the moment I spotted it, that I had to get on-board. Got the account, yaaay! Next up, Patreon.

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.

Really glad to find this place, looking forward to being part of the community,

Regarding donations though: Would you be able to share details on costs and how any Patreon money is spent?

Ad Astra!

Subbed and so glad to be here.

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

What about kbin

How much does a Lemmy instance cost to host?

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

Lemmy seems nice, next we need an app

Is there a list with instances you have blocked or are you currently federating with all other instances?

Edit: There is a list with all instances at the bottom of the site

Hi! I have questions on how federation works on Lemmy. In Mastodon, if someone post something from an other instance, I can see it directly, if me or someone else from my own instance follow the poster. I thought it worked like that in Lemmy too, but I started following some communities in other instances, and I can't see all the new messages (for example, compare !france@lemmy.world and startrek.website/c/france@lemmy.world; if you have the same problem as me, a lot of new messages will not appear, even if I subscribed a few days ago). Is it a problem from Lemmy, a decision from startrek.website, or a problem with my account precisely?

Thanks for your help!

General Lemmy question, and apologies if this isn’t the place. I found a community I want to subscribe to. !buyitforlife@sh.itjust.works. Tried to search for it in various different ways, and kept getting no results. Used various formats and got nowhere. Eventually I navigated to startrek.website/c/buyitforlife@sh.itjust.works and found the community. I’ve now been able to subscribe to the community, but can’t see old posts.

Will I ever be able to? If I want to interact with older posts, am I SOL, or do I just need to be patient until older posts sync?

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

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.

Can you share more about the server configuration and stats on the number of users? It had some hiccups earlier but now the site is rock-solid so I was curious what it runs on.

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.

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

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

@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.

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?

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.

Just FYI all the instance, and community logos are rendering as broken images.

@Admin@startrek.website startrek.website is returning a 502 bad gateway error.

@Admin@startrek.website Welcome to the fediverse!

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?

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.

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.

We need an LCARS theme for this site.

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

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.)

So is there anything worth knowing about why r/startrek and r/daystrominstitute are both open again on reddit?

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

Mlem has crashed 3 times for me today, just browsing.

It’s in Beta, running within Test Flight. It’s GitHub shows lots of good stuff is coming…but it’s not here yet.

And for whatever reason it keeps bumping my replies to comments up to the top level.

I hope r/sto will make the jump over here

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.

Wondering if there’s any progress on some of the other Trek-related subs being willing to migrate…?

While we may not have yet hit the critical mass to warrant the ‘Disco network’ of new show subs setting up, it would be great to have a Treklit sub (both books and comics) set up soon. Or one for gaming as that seems to be taking off again.