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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.
I’m having trouble creating an account, the box just keep spinning
There’s a known bug with Lemmy when sometimes accounts get “half created”. You can try again with a new username, or if you’re really connected to it, contact @williams_482@startrek.website and they can manually add it (when they have time).
Jerboa for android is telling me StarTrek.website is an old version, what gives?
The app should work as normal. Just skip the warning. We are skipping the latest Lemmy update because it disables CAPTCHA, which we need to defend against an ongoing bot swarm. We’ll update to soon when the next version comes out!
If you have any questions for the team, please don’t hesitate to ask in this thread! 🖖
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.
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?
We’re aware of the pact and will cross that bridge when (or if) it ever really happens. We’re certainly no fans of Meta (or Reddit,or Twitter). So far it seems more likely to affect Mastodon than Lemmy/Kbin.
Sharing user data with a an instance with a firm that exists to monetize data seems a fundamental violation of what the fediverse is.
The “user data” (comments, posts, votes, etc) that would be available to a hypothetical instance owned my Meta is already public for anyone, so not much we have control over there. “Defederating” essentially just means “blanket banning” a bunch of users at once.
Agreed that it’s public now - in the case of up/downvoting publication is instance-dependent — and can be scraped, but as a federated instance Meta can just load it directly.
True, but if Meta (or anyone) wanted to “directly” get that data, it would be as trivial as setting up an instance on something as small as a Raspberry Pi and subscribing to a community here. We would have no way of knowing who it is or stopping them. Defederation is a tool to prevent brigading, not lurking.
If (if) Meta wanted to set a lemmy-style platform, preemptively defederating from it would be a largely symbolic gesture. Doesn’t mean it’s not worth doing, like I said we’ll cross that bridge if and when it becomes relevant.
