startrek.website is a partnership between /r/StarTrek and /r/DaystromInstitute from Reddit, they've both locked their subs over there for good. Follow @startrek
startrek.website is a partnership between /r/StarTrek and /r/DaystromInstitute from Reddit, they've both locked their subs over there for good. Follow @startrek
Hey maybe this could be whatβs displayed over on /r/startrek while it is down.
hahahah yes pleasee
I'm replying to a mastodon post, from a separate lemmy instance federated with startrek.website.
I'm living in the future.
I'm replying to your post on a lemmy instance federated with startrek.website, from another lemmy instance federated with lemmy.world.
Things get mighty confusing, but fun in their own ways.
EDIT: Also didn't realise that this was a Mastodon post, but that would explain why some of the comments have a bit of unusual formatting.
Free from the Ferengi's profiteering schemes
I was fumbling around Lemmy instances looking for a βhome baseβ, frustrated when I couldnβt find anything I liked. Then I found this one posted on the Lemmy subreddit and was immediately excited!
Hit it!
I'm in the same boat! None of the big, general-purpose instances had quite what I was looking for. A dedicated one for Star Trek makes me feel like I'm on-school Star Trek forums again, which is the way to (boldly) go.
You are welcome!
Do you Federation enthusiasts know that Lemmy developers are using Star Trek names for their testing instances?
To boldly go
Clearly I'm living on another instance, but I'm wondering is startrek.website community creation is locked or not? Feels like all the different Trek sub-communities should be hosted here. Show specific ones like Lower Decks, things like Star Trek Online, etc. but so far it seems like its just the big 3.
That's in the plans for the future for sure! (I'm the Admin for StarTrek.website)
Naming it into a more generic sci-fi name, like scifi.website, might have made more sense, since it would open things up for other franchises, like star wars/stargate/doctor who to also be hosted.
It would be a bit like rec.arts.sf.* from back in the day.
With Star Trek being such a massive franchise with a bunch of subcommunities, I think it makes some sense for it to be its own thing. There's no need to merge communities, having dedicated spaces is nice.
Saw this post on lemmy.world and subscribed!
hey all! I see that /r/strangenewworlds is also going to remain in restricted mode indefinitely, would you perhaps reach out to the mods there, and see if they'd like to join the Federation? :-D
If memory serves, they were shutting down for everything except discussion threads. IDK if that plan changed or not.
yep, i think that was their plan.. might as well extend the olive branch, though, and see if they'd like to join the Federation
And I am so happy to see that. I joined up yesterday
Will you be updating lemmy-ui and the backend to 0.17.4? They have major database performance improvements.
I did not realize there was an update, I just installed the latest on Saturday. Thank you this is great to know.
Also dang, nice job on scoring that username π
Had to be fast! Happy it was available.
Make it so.
Incredible work, I'm so proud of this community! Makes sense that Star Trek fans would see the value of the federationverse
live long and prosper
Qapla'
Any chance r/startrekmemes is also coming over here?
We expect to expand our communities as we gain more users, so there likely will be an equivalent space on here eventually. In the mean time, though, I encourage you to meme it up on /c/risa!
is that gonewild for star trek?
@Stoat If all the good subs move to KBin, then what good is my Karma?
Then again, what good is my Karma?
It was literally only good to keep your brain hooked and building that karma. Clever assholes. Glad to get rid of that site.
You gain no karma on Lemmy either
I suspect the Tibetan Buddhist understanding of karma as something you impose upon yourself is oddly appropriate here.
I figure that a move from lemmy to kbin would be pretty seamless.
They are. There's some formatting issues, but they are fairly compatible with each other, other than some minor problems with things like text formatting, but that's probably an issue of the interface, rather than Kbin.
Hailing frequencies open!
Where my friends of DeSoto at?
Time to create a GreatestGen/Trek community!
r/greatestgen is still up and there's a thread from 4 days ago from the FoD Mastodon admin about setting up an FoD Lemmy. I pointed that OP here but it wouldn't be official Uxbridge-Shimoda social media unless its the Card Daddy as admin.
Oh man, we definitely need a Greatest Trek instance. Maybe a mod of speshial conshennce can make one for B&A to drop into.
Best boss I ever had!
Next on this old starship, we building a forum.
Also, where did the name friends of DeSoto come from? I've listened for years and feel like a missed a random reference.
It's from the early days of Greatest Gen, and references Captain DeSoto of the USS Hood (NCC-1703). DeSoto and the Hood made several appearances in TNG, and Ben and Adam leaned into his chill vibes, theorizing that the Hood would be a great place to work.
It's also an allusion to the phrase Friend of Dorothy, an older euphemism for LGBT people.
I think it was originally jokingly conceived as a sort of passphrase or shibboleth for fans of the pod to identify each other without revealing their embarrassing enthusiasm to outsiders, e.g.
Q: "Are you a friend of DeSoto?"
A: "Best boss I ever had!"
It's from a neat Trek podcast called Greatest Generation, highly recommend checking it out!
I think it came about during the DS9 Era, don't exactly recall though.
The Bell riots are about to start on reddit, good to get out now.
THIS is the kind of action I was hopeful for. I haven't had a reddit account in nearly two years out of principle, and it feels great to be able to geek out/interact with other star trek nerds online.
Are there any browsable backups/archives of Daystrom? There's a vast amount of content there which I'd hate to see lost.
It looks like they're slowly copying over all the old posts of the week to the new /c/
Welcome to the fediverse!
You guys are great. Thanks for the courage and thanks for coming here.
Absolutely made up about this. Star Trek and the related subs were the only ones I used by the end of me being on Reddit.
This is the lovable Star Trek spirit! β€οΈπ
TNG - https://startrek.website/post/768 think I saw the DS9 one listed too.
@NotJeffreyCombs oh thank god. I always recommend the DS9 one to people who either missed it or tried and failed.
https://startrek.website/u/M_5/view/Posts/sort/New/page/1 for those looking for the links.
my subscribe was pending. I just learned that was a bug. HOORAY I'M IN!
Welcome aboard, and pardon the space dust!
@Stoat @startrek Sweet! And I can subscribe on my kbin account here: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]
Shows are released on Prime at midnight GMT right?
/r/risa wasnβt invited?
They're here.
more power to you!
Oh cool. Glad that I found you here π
bark! bark! bark!
Instance free link startrek
How do you make one of those? or is it just [email protected]?
[text] (/c/[email protected]er) but without the space between the bracket and parentheses
If only for star trek purposes, I'm all in for this. More than enough.
this is amazing, this is how to end reddit!
well make it so and beam my ass up
I had my subscription show pending, as well, but it was working just fine. I was able to get it showing properly by unsubscribing (just clicking on the button showing it pending) and then re-subscribed and it showed me joined properly.
Man I just love the content that is growing every day in these new forums ... nice work guys ... subscribed and will come back again and again.
I feel like we've rebelled against old alliances and we are restarting again in some far off outpost with minimal supplies but plenty of hope and enthusiasm.
I've cut my ties and I'm staying on this outpost with you all.
Any plans to have a section to represent /r/StarTrekGIFs?
Only thing I really post are sci-fi gifs anyways, so looking to move over here to do it
What news to warm my heart! Very principled to lock the subs over in crazy town even though it's difficult. I won't be going back, and the fed(erat)i(on)verse is the perfect place for Star Trek anyway!
Why is it being closed for good now?
@JuicyShaqMeat Some of the mods feel that the backtracking Reddit has done on the API changes isn't good enough.
And at least one group of mods actually threw a fit over people not realizing they were doing a boycott, and people were messaging them for access to the private sub.
will this community also censure people whom talk about the remote possibility that the new star trek series might not be very good
There's literally a post in their front page about criticism with Disco S4 that's incredibly constructive.
The issue was never about criticism. The issue was lazy, nonconstructive criticism.
to those concerned about possible censorship or poor moderation of your fav communities (e.g. replies in this thread)... please remember the most important part of this social experiment.
Federation.
start your own instance and community, then you can manage things exactly as you see fit - literally godlike powers. play by the concensus rules of the instances you wish to federate with and your content will spread far and wide across the fediverse. your future will be glorious
i was barred from r/startrek for commenting on how the completely unprofessional attitudes of characters toward the chain of command was irritating to me. i compared it to the "finally" scene from tng, and how discovery has worse occurrences happen repeatedly every episode that just get completely ignored
Hard disagree on that. I was called a bigot for criticizing the plots and writing on Disco more than once, usually with a few grafs of explanation and canon reasons.
If any of the mods of those subreddits are here, can you reconsider permanently locking?
The communities on those subs took years to develop, and you're going to lose a lot of quality posts and discussion, since most people won't just move seamlessly to a new website. Beyond that, there are years of high quality posts that members of that community have made, which may not be utterly lost, but they will certainly be more inaccessible.
I'm pissed at the Reddit admins too, but I don't enjoy being forced onto some new site.
I'm writing with the context of the Twitter takeover by Elon Musk. I tried migrating to Mastodon (which seems analogous to Reddit/Lemmy). While I enjoyed not being on a site dominated by a person who, in addition to similar API price hikes, is racist and transphobic, many of the communities I value on Twitter never migrated. The result was that Mastodon was never an adequate replacement for the Twitter networks I was in. While I appreciate not giving money to a person I hate, I'm not eager to repeat that experience, especially because it seems like Reddit's breaches are more of a pure business decision, which I find somewhat palatable, even if I'm unhappy to be forced off the apps I previously used.
I definitely am not opposed to the existence of this website, and in time I imagine it may develop its own unique community that some people value more than Reddit. However, I enjoy having the option of both sites available.
Part of the cost of having integrity in this case is needing to be patient. Reddit and Twitter didn't build the communities you are lamenting overnight. It's been two days for Reddit and less than a year for Twitter.
As for the content, nothing is stopping individuals from removing or exporting their comments. There are automated tools that will do this for you with very little effort. Reddit doesn't own the content and neither do the mods.
FYI: Mastodon is also part of the Fediverse, so you may see content from there show up on Lemmy/Kbin, and vice versa.
As for the content, nothing is stopping individuals from removing or exporting their comments. There are automated tools that will do this for you with very little effort.
I've been thinking about this. Shouldn't we be copying rising posts from Reddit to their respective communities on Lemmy? It would help bridge the content gap while the userbase is still growing, and it's all public information.
Especially since a new social media network also means that they would have to learn how to use it all over again. People are used to Reddit, whereas Lemmy doesn't have the creature comforts, like keyboard shortcuts, and RES that someone might be used to.
That can be a pretty big obstacle.
Migrating the community to the fediverse safeguards it from ever needing to migrate again, due to the decentralized structure where nobody controls the content. As long as it's on a corporately owned service, profit incentives will harm content or even force a migration eventually. I think it's a bit selfish to push that inconvenience onto the future users when we have an excellent opportunity to do it now, for all Reddit communities, and be done with it forever.
Great of the mods to unilaterally decide for tens of thousands of users to lock and make inaccessible years and years of conversation. I'm sorry your fefes are hurt, but this "we had to destroy the village to save it" is some third-grade tantrum throwing bullshit.
You've just discovered the main problem with centralized platforms like Reddit, Discord, Twitter. The only thing stopping the mods from making a complete archive of the old platform is the Big Tech owners of Reddit. These corporate interests own all your posts, memes, and DMs, forever.
With federated platforms, the community leadership can easily backup, archive, or transfer everything whenever they like. That's the power of ownership.
Not only that, but copies of everything now exist on every single instance that's federated with startrek.website, so its potentially recoverable should something catastrophic happen.
And that's fine. The mods, or whomever, have every right to go off and form another community, and the participants have every right to follow. The mods DON'T have the right to make the decision for me, restrict the content that I posted to a site they do not own, or otherwise interfere with my right to enjoy the archival content that they did not create. Hopefully the Reddit ownership will force the afflicted communities open sooner rather than later and let us each decide individually, rather than be subject to the whims of some babies that think an entity doesn't have the right to manage it's own tech.
Ah yes, because moving to a platform free from profiteering owners, an objective improvement to the community, is clearly just because fefes were hurt...
claims that others' "fefes are hurt" and says this is "some third-grade tantrum throwing bullshit"
turns out their own "fefes are hurt" and they proceed to engage in "some third-grade tantrum throwing bullshit"
I mean, I'm not the one running around and breaking things, but ok.
First time moving website?
There is also a currently active archive.org project trying to capture all of Reddit, and I would be extremely surprised if they weren't also capturing both /r/DaystromInstitute and /r/StarTrek, at the bare minimum.
I would rather see a permanent freeze instead of private. Yes it helps Reddit slightly more than private subs, but there is years of discussion that could be kept while still making it obsolete and limiting reddit's income/users from it.
I prefer they stay private for now to direct users, and then once July 1 happens, they can re-open as restricted for a limited time.
Sorry - the downvotes have made me realize that "we had to destroy the village to save it" isn't third-grade bullshit, it's kindergarten bullshit. But please, play on, those, like, 5 of you who decided that it was your call to dump years of posts into oblivion because the platform that supported your conversation for years decided they'd had enough of freeloading.
How do you not understand that reddit is a symbiotic relationship between users / moderators - who generate and moderate ALL of the content for the site - and the reddit workers and admins who host it? Without one the other can't exist. Reddit is 100% freeloading off of users' content just as much as users & moderators are "freeloading" off of the ability to access the content through the API.
Reddit ownership (and you) have apparently chosen to either forget that, or ignore it.
Lmao, you suck dude.
