No worries, we’ll figure out how this works someday.

  • Desert_Artificer@startrek.website
    4·
    1 year ago

    Hi everyone! I’m glad to see Daystrom has its own continuity of government bunker.

    It looks like M-5 is hard at work archiving posts. Is it grabbing old PoTWs or working off some other criteria?

    • williams_482@startrek.websiteOPM
      1·
      1 year ago

      It looks like M-5 is hard at work archiving posts. Is it grabbing old PoTWs or working off some other criteria?

      Currently the criteria is “was it on the wiki and did someone message Reddit modmail asking for it (or something closely related to it)”. So M-5 isn’t actually working very hard at all at the moment, but that can change!

      We don’t currently plan to repost things that other put on Daystrom’s main site, but we do encourage people to repost things they were proud of from their own comment history if they feel so inclined. We intend to reopen the site in read-only mode before too much longer, which should make that process easier, and in the long run we’d like to put together some kind of comprehensive off-site archive with proper credit given to submitters. Alternately, if there’s something from the wiki you would like to see preserved here, let us know and M-5 will set to work on it.

  • JCPhoenix@beehaw.org
    3·
    1 year ago

    Excited to see you guys on the Lemmyverse! The subreddit was always one of those places I could get lost in for hours. Now I can do it here!

  • CaptainTightpants@startrek.website
    3·
    1 year ago

    Great, guys. I go through the trouble of purchasing “daystrominstitute.us” and standing up a Digital Ocean droplet and just found out that somebody way more competent beat me to the punch! /s

    I’d like to share a few thoughts, if I may.

    I still don’t know the technical abilities of the Fediverse at-large and how customizable individual servers are. So some of these may be impossible or irrelevant.

    1) I’d like to see a summary page of hosting costs with the ability to help out. We’re kinda on our own here and nobody should have to bear the Brunt alone.

    2) It would be nice to see an onboarding wiki to show new users. Maybe explaining how the concepts here map to their equivalent Reddit terms.

    1. Since (I’m assuming) this is a hosted cloud instance from one of our more technically inclined officers, it may also be good to have a page of other devops type people who can help out with server tasks when needed.

    With that said, I’m genuinely thrilled to see people back and can’t wait to dive back in to reading fanon so detailed that it makes a doctoral dissertation look like a shopping list.

    Cheers!

    Edit: Perusing the threads and it looks like most everything I wanted is already here!

  • Klanky@sopuli.xyz
    2·
    1 year ago

    Thanks for starting this! I found another Daystrom Institute on here but it seems dead. Looking forward to all the great discussion!

  • Jerichi@startrek.website
    2·
    1 year ago

    I hope we can find KhaosWorks and some of the other Daystrom regulars over here. I’d be lost without their breakdowns ):

    • Interesting@startrek.website
      6·
      1 year ago

      Either Reddit will back down, or it will very quickly grow. I would worry more for /r/startrek, but this community doesn’t have a peer anywhere else.

      • Bonolio@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        It’s not going to grow much.
        95% of redditors won’t make the shift.
        The Startrek community on Reddit is just going to start spinning up new subreddits to replace the ones that were closed.
        Sure, it will take some time for the new communities to reestablish but it will happen.

        I support and regularly use federated systems and support the principals of the Startrek subs that have moved, but the reality is that societally/practically we are a long way from people choosing to move away from the various MegaSocials.

        • Lockely@pawb.social
          1·
          1 year ago

          We’ve had people try to spin up alternates for years and they haven’t taken off, except with certain groups of people who can’t help but miss the entire point of Star Trek.

          The moderators are as much responsible for the community as the platform is. These communities are growing exceedingly fast, and it’s not like Lemmy isn’t just slightly jankier old.reddit anyway.

          • Bonolio@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 year ago

            I suspect people being people there will be a larger surge to the Fediverse once third party apps start failing.
            Just to be clear, I have no objections to the move, and agree with the stance, I just have doubts about people leaving their places of convenience.
            In general I find the kind of person that moves to the fediverse to more interesting anyway.
            Wishing this community success