r/startrek has just launched its own Lemmy instance

https://old.reddit.com/r/startrek/comments/14a5t8w/looking_for_an_alternative_to_reddit_to_talk_trek/

by ZacnyLos • 3 years ago

108 32 3 years ago

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remram4• 3 years ago

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36341257

Link to Lemmy community: https://startrek.website/c/startrek

porphyra2• 3 years ago

...aaaand it's down already

I love the idea of a fediverse but I am not sure how it can possibly scale up to large communities. As long as people have to spin up their own node to host one, it seems forever limited to small groups of not more than perhaps a few hundreds users.

Sakos2• 3 years ago

Agree. Imo, alternatives like lemmy just poison the well when they can't handle a tiny fraction of the users of a single subreddit.

javajosh• 3 years ago

Like so many people you underestimate the capacity of modern computers. Stack Overflow is famously hosted on like 6 machines. I personally worked on a system that was running on two machines, one a hot backup, that served highly dynamic content to 400k monthly actives.

rjh29• 3 years ago

Maybe that's not such a bad thing.

codetrotter2• 3 years ago

Loads fine for me now. Try again?

remram4• 3 years ago

This comment is also a dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36341414

dumpsterlid• 3 years ago

Super cool! A separate fan community like this is huge for longterm fan/community building. It also totally fits the ethos of star trek itself.

bovermyer• 3 years ago

I get a cert error. Maybe the Let's Encrypt issue?

wellthisisgreat• 3 years ago

I think what's going to happen with Reddit is people won't drop it for Lemmy but people will use both in parallel and eventually the more engaged / interesting users will leave reddit, and it will be over.

shagie• 3 years ago

The sub is set to restricted - nobody except for the mods (and other approved users if they've set them up) can post.

It would be curious if Paramount or CBS Studios were to request Reddit hand over the sub for it to moderate as it owns the trademark.

jacooper• 3 years ago

Should've bought startrek.social

johnchristopher2• 3 years ago

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

"For good", interesting. I wonder how things will be in three months for reddit communities. I wonder what parallels can be drawn between this reddit situation, twitter/mastodon and whatsapp/signal.

fsniper• 3 years ago

It's open already. Did reddit take over?

Shared404• 3 years ago

Looks to be restricted. Probably it's set up so people can find the new site.

Reptur• 3 years ago

its read only

johnchristopher2• 3 years ago

The new home of r/StarTrek, r/DaystromInstitute and sigh ...r/Risa

Hey, hey, hey :).

luuurker• 3 years ago

Not sure if it's a good idea to use that domain (startrek.website). It might attract some lawyers if it gets too popular.

liotier• 3 years ago

Does something resembling the "Old Reddit" look & feel exist among the Reddit clones ?

gmuslera• 3 years ago

To boldly go where no Reddit community has gone before.

tredre3• 3 years ago

The contrast on this website is rather bad. For example the pinned discussions are dark blue against a dark grey background. Prev (disabled button) and Next (normal button) use almost the same shade of grey. Hot|Top|New|Old all look like disabled buttons (very faint) but they are clickable.

There doesn't seem to be a way to switch to a light theme? Are there other online viewers for lemmy?

(Of course this could be the result of me being middle-aged or me using a mid-range monitor rather than high-end OLED, so take of that what you will)

ttt3ts• 3 years ago

Join a different instance with a different color scheme?

r/startrek has just launched its own Lemmy instance

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