Oh, very nice! And yes, the blue was chosen because it matches with the default Lemmy upvote color.
Startrek.website has banned the user and blocked/purged the communities.
As ValueSubtracted said please report. Reporting alerts startrek.website admins and the admins of the user's home instance. If we notice another instance regularly not cleaning out their trash, we have the option to defederate from them.
Here is our FAQ. What kind of communities are you most interested in? I'd be happy to make some recommendations.
As ValueSubtracted said, as far as we can tell, the problem is on Lemmy.world's side as we are not seeing any major disruptions with content from other instances. But we are looking into options on our end.
EDIT: We've made some adjustments that appear to be closing the gap
EDIE 2: The issue has been resolved
StarTrek.website saw 4 approved registrations in the past day, and we typically get about 1/day too.
Straight jump, no issues that I've noticed thus far.
We suspect this may have to do with their older Lemmy version as we're noticing it on some other instances as well, but not .ml which is running the latest.
Tesseract is great!
Defederation is the nuclear option. Until now we had removed any communities we weren't comfortable hosting, and treated users on a case-by-case basis based on how they behaved in our communities, which worked for a while but became untenable.
When we started this project the admin team felt that welcoming outsiders into our (wholesome, sane) Star Trek communities was the net-positive action. But as I said it became too much to handle so we unfortunately had to cut the cord.
Check it out here → wiki.StarTrek.website
Goals for this wiki:
To serve as a hub and bridge for fans to find and connect with online resources of the broader Trek fandom and Fediverse. Think: stuff that's not a good fit for Memory Alpha or Wikipedia.
Some cool pages:
- Instance Mission Statement (new! 👀)
- Archive of c/StarTrek's episode discussion threads (includes old Reddit threads and USSBurritoTruck's "Canon Connections" too!)
- Social Media accounts of Trek actors (needs help expanding!)
- c/StarTrek's "where do I start?" guide for Trek babies.
Want to contribute?
We're accepting pitches for community resources that people may want to contribute. Here are examples of sorts of things we're looking for, but we're open to any idea, it doesn't even need to be about Star Trek!
- Guide to the best LGBT episodes
- Other good Star Trek websites (Ex Astris, TrekMovie, etc)
- Where to stream Trek
- S-tier blank Trek meme templates
If you'd like a page of your own, or want help expanding/maintain existing pages, comment here or message an admin with your idea and we can get you set up with a Wiki account. Cheers!
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UPDATED 9-3: StarTrek.website - Lemmy info, FAQ, Patreon info, future plans, and more!
(startrek.website)
nuqneH!
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.
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 !quarks@startrek.website, Quarks is fun!
If you have any questions for the team, please don't hesitate to ask in this thread! 🖖