The timing definitely could have been better. But maybe now more people have seen it?
Currently stalled but we're working on it.
Uh, everything’s under control. Situation normal, everything’s perfectly all right now. We’re fine… We’re all fine here now. Thank you.
How are you?
If we go "by the book" like Lieutenant Saavik, hours could seem like days.
But seriously it will take days.
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Update: this is completed. All hear this, all hear this: StarTrek.website users will have issues with images for a few days while we migrate pict-rs to S3 storage.
(startrek.website)
Apologies for the inconvenience! 
In case anyone else is as confused as I was: yes, we are defederated from Hexbear.net. This image is simply hosted there.
You know, if Spock were here, he'd say that you were an irrational, illogical human being by taking on a mission like this.
...Sounds like fun!
Let's just say there's a reason we moved to the place where defederation is an option...
After all, any instance can pickup some of those and isn’t representative of the instance as a whole.
I think I speak for the whole admin team that we actually do hold instance owners responsible for the communities they host, the same way we hold Reddit (the company) responsible for the communities they choose to host. That said, we made the decision that (for now) the best practice for handling large general purpose instances like .world or .ml is to take a scalpel approach until such a time comes that the Threadiverse is more resilient.
While ostensibly a "general purpose" instance, users on Hexbear had a tendency to come to our hosted communities and aggressively push propaganda, unfairly burdening our mods, so it was a much easier decision to de-federate. We actually did announce that one because of their size.
(Also FYI in case you're not aware you are posting form lemmy.world so just to be clear none of these policies apply to your current account!)
EDIT: I also think it might be useful to highlight that we never take actions against other instances, we take actions for our users/communities.
StarTrek.website have been using the !startrek@startrek.website logo instance-wide since the beginning, and since we have been seeing above-average growth lately, the admin team figured it was time to zhuzh up our lil' Webzone with it's own identity:
...Get it?
We also have (mostly) completed a project I've been working on since the beginning, exclusive StarTrek.website custom animated emojis! Introducing:
I've-had-enough-of-your-nonsense Data:
I-would-like-more-of-your-nonsense Riker: 
Are-you-shitting-me Tuvok
...And much, much more!
To use these, look here while making a post or comment:
Make it known around the Fediverse that you are a Website™ user! Characters from other series will be added periodically in the future (aka when I find the time)!
As always, thank you to our Patreon supporters for keeping us live! If you are interested in helping out with the bills, we have just one plan and it's $4.
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.
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!
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Season one of StarTrek.website is in the bag! So we've added "V'ger", as a treat.
(startrek.website)
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)
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A friendly reminder that we also have mlem ("old reddit") fronted installed too for those that prefer browsing in a familiar interface on desktop.
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We do plan on updating to Lemmy 0.19.4 sometime this month so keep an eye out for that!
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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.
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Consider this a friendly reminder to yourself and all users here that if you see a user behaving in a way you just plain don't like, (even if it's on another instance) don't hesitate to report it to us. The admin team is extremely aggressive with blocks and bans. We want this instance to be a quiet, thoughtful, and fun entry point to the Fediverse. And we want our users to be happy.
That said I understand the need for a break! I'll miss your presence and as ValueSubtracted said we'll keep the antimatter inducers uh, er- inducing.