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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?

Read here

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! 🖖

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    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?

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      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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        1 year ago

        Hell yeah, thank you! One more question, are there plans to update to 0.18 so we can use it with Jerboa?

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          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.

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            1 year ago

            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.

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              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.