EDIT 3: **Due to some bugs we're delaying this feature until Lemmy 0.19.6 is released! **

The goal of c/Quarks has always been to help foster a sense of community for StarTrek.website, but it is just a generic "offtopic" community and does not really have an identity of it's own on the Fediverse.

Thanks to the new feature in Lemmy 19.4, we can create true "local only" communities. And Quark's can be what it was originally intended to be, a place for our users. This will allow us to better discuss what kind of experience users of this instance wish to have (not just provide) without all the dorks on less cool instances coming here and ruining our weather control network.

!Smiling

EDIT: to those of you concerned about missing out on "trek-adjacent discussion" @ValueSubtracted@startrek.website has indicated they plan on loosening the "on topic" rule of /c/StarTrek to include more of that.

EDIT2: If anyone is interested in growing and operating a community on our instance, please feel free to reach out or comment here!

I quit as the top mod of /r/StarTrek in 2021 in protest against Reddit's platforming of vaccine disinformation subreddits. Then in 2023 during the API protest, myself and several of the remaining mods (including mods from /r/Risa and /r/DaystromInstitute) started StarTrek.website.

The consensus I've seen on Lemmy has been largely "we don't need to spread the word about our open platforms because Reddit will do something stupid again and there will be another protest and Lemmy will be promoted there". So I hope we can take this as a lesson that we can't rely on platforms being shitty in order to switch society over to open standards. We need to do our best to make Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed good as well as known.

I don't know if there are any Snap players amongst the startrek.website community, but I've created a loosely Star Trek-themed Alliance, if that's something you'd be into.

Just paste the following into Alliance Search: [UFP] Delta Shift

I’ve thought it would be nice to have a venue to discuss Trek comics, but I’ve always felt it would be weird to reference non-canon/dubiously canon stuff from a less popular medium in a main Star Trek thread.

Thus, I was wondering if this server has sufficient interest in such a thing to create a new community just for Star Trek comics.

cross-posted from: https://toast.ooo/post/4064398

> No size change as a result of the polls > > 68% of the canvas has pixels on it, lets try to get it filled!! > > 24h - 72h Timelapses: > - PeerTube: https://sc07.tv/w/6nRzZhVtyPCmJfSoPJC7tn > - YouTube: https://youtu.be/diwHyJTvb0k > - Raw File: https://cdn.sc07.company/canvas/2024/24-72.mp4 > > go place pixels! > - https://canvas.fediverse.events > - https://canvas.fediverse.events > - https://canvas.fediverse.events > - https://canvas.fediverse.events

cross-posted from: https://toast.ooo/post/4031774

If there's any interest in carving out a corner of Canvas 2024 in the name of startrek.website, feel free to use this thread to coordinate!

Looks like it's a done deal (serious this time), though there's technically a 45-day window for someone to make a better offer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(1982_film)

one

• Founders - Change shape
• Thing - Change shape

two

• Founders - live in a giant soup and can split off from the soup at will
• Thing - Can divide up the shape at any time into autonomous functional groups

three

• Founders - Fly in space ships
• Thing - Flies in massive space ship

four

• Thing - Doesn't like fire
• Founders - who likes fire?

I posit that the founders are the Thing, but perhaps a group of founders operating in special operations mode. Or they could be children out on founder Rumspringa like Odo was.

In case you weren't sick of this merry-go-round yet.

Hi everyone,

We've now upgraded to v0.19.5 - this update includes the changes from v0.19.4, which we had not yet upgraded to. This is a relatively big one, and you can find details here:

v0.19.4

v0.19.5

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Here are some of the user-facing highlights:

• There is now a dropdown option to hide posts.

• You can now view and delete all images you've previously uploaded.

• Federation has been improved in a number of ways. It's now possible to federate with Wordpress, Discourse, and NodeBB. Federation with Mastodon has been improved, and we should now be federated with more servers on that platform. Most posts to our communities should automatically receive a hashtag matching the community's name (e.g., #startrek, #daystrominstitute, etc.). This is dependent on the poster's home instance, though, so only posts from servers which are running v0.19.4 or higher will receive the hashtags.

• There's now a user setting to change how votes are displayed - you can see or hide upvotes, downvotes, score, upvote %, or none.

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I'd also like to remind you that we have two alternative interfaces available:

• https://old.startrek.website/ is a suspciously familiar-looking user experience.

• https://vger.startrek.website/ is a nice mobile-first experience. If you've ever used the Voyager mobile app, this is that.

Edit: We also have a wiki, which is open to users who feel inspired to develop resources for this community!

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Finally, we remain eternally grateful to all users who are able to support startrek.website by contributing to our Patreon - your generosity helps to keep the lights on!

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🖖 The Admin Team

Maintenance was successful

Rest in peace. Isn’t he a time traveler, though? I thought Starfleet Intelligence would have resolved this by now.

I added it to my watch list because Robert Duncan McNeill is an executive producer, and finally started on it yesterday. Definitely enjoying it so far.

I'm only partway through the first season, but it's basically "What if ET was kind of a jerk?" (or possibly "What if Dr. House was an alien?") If you've seen it, no spoilers please, but curious if anyone else has watched it and their thoughts on it.

Like many other Lemmy instances, we turned one this week! If you enjoy the Voyager app experience but prefer to only login locally (not that there's any reason whatsoever to distrust vger.app) or not log in at all, we now have an option for you!

https://vger.startrek.website/

!

(actual footage of a vger.startrek.website user)

• A friendly reminder that we also have mlem ("old reddit") fronted installed too for those that prefer browsing in a familiar interface on desktop.

• We do plan on updating to Lemmy 0.19.4 sometime this month so keep an eye out for that!

• If you've noticed the site hitching lately it's because we were reaching our storage limit (again, oops) so we purchased significantly more storage that appears to be helping.

Big nuqneH to our Patreon supporters for keeping our little corner of the Fediverse on the air a whole year and also allowing us to add features like these frontends and wiki (editing is open to all!) If you'd like to pitch in we have just one plan and it's only $4.

I'm not familiar with Keleops, but it's hard to imagine Gizmodo being worse off than it had been under the previous ownership.

>The researchers did indeed discover a warp drive solution: a method of manipulating space so that travelers can move without accelerating. There is no such thing as a free lunch, however, and the physicality of this warp drive does come with a major caveat: the vessel and passengers can never travel faster than light. Also disappointing: the fact that the researchers behind the new work don't seem to bother with figuring out what configurations of matter would allow the warping to happen.

More departures of former Viacom senior executives from Paramount Global in the wake of Baklish’s firing.

We've been interested in hosting communities that aren't exactly Star Trek, but also make a certain kind of sense for this instance for a while. - Quark's was the first step, and now we've decided to pull the trigger on !doctorwho@startrek.website - with the new season up and running, this seems like as good a time as any. Whovians new and old alike are welcome to stop by!

"Space Babies"

Logline

Ruby learns the Doctor’s amazing secrets when he takes her to a Baby Farm in the future that’s being run by babies, but threatened by a bogeyman.

Written by: Russell T. Davies

Directed by: Julie Anne Robinson

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"The Devil's Chord"

Logline

When the Doctor and Ruby meet The Beatles, they discover that the all-powerful Maestro is changing history.

Written by: Russell T. Davies

Directed by: Ben Chessell

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This thead is a trial balloon to gauge whether there's interest in having ongoing "Doctor Who" discussion threads, or perhaps a local community.