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.
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.
How much effort would it be for them to create a new one and do it again?
Minimal, but it is the domain that gets blocked so the attacker would still need to purchase a new domain.
Would you like the admins to permaban them?
Oh, my bad! Also congratulations.
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!
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.
nuqneH!
Welcome to our new home in the Fed~~eration~~iverse. First of all- WOW we did not expect to surpass 300 users on this instance (and over 1K fediverse subscribers) within our first 48 hours and with little promotional effort. We are all excited to see where this long road goes.
I had some stuff typed out, but honestly, this thread sums it up better. Check it out! It has infographics.
If you're still stressed out, remember that Lemmy is still new. Yes, it's ugly, but people said Reddit was ugly too (both are correct). As Lemmy grows, and #Rexxit continues, more tools will get made. Decentralization opens up a lot of possibilities we didn't have before. The future is bright.
Yes! Eventually. Right now our focus is staying online, fast, and reliable which means keeping things focused while we find our footing. Daystrom, StarTrek and Risa were chosen to start off with because the three of them cover the "srs bsns ↔ shitposting" spread quite well.
If you are part of a community interested in being hosted on startrek.website, send me a DM and we can try to work something out.
We've started a Patreon here: Patreon.com/treksite. There's only one plan and it's just $4. If our growth continues like it has, we're going to need to upgrade our hosting very soon.
Lemmy is weird with languages. In your user settings, make sure “Language” is set to both “English” and “Undetermined”. You can select additional languages as well, but they aren’t currently allowed on this server. On desktop, you can use CTRL+click to select both options. This will allow you to see content for which the author has not set a language, and content which has been set to “English”.
This will hopefully be made more clear with future updates.
Add this exception to your adblocker (replace "lemmy.world" with your instance):
@@||*/pictrs/*$domain=lemmy.world
Follow us on Mastodon for updates, scheduled maintenance, etc.
We've just opened a new "offtopic" community, welcome to !quarks@startrek.website, Quarks is fun!
If you have any questions for the team, please don't hesitate to ask in this thread! 🖖
Currently stalled but we're working on it.