It’s been a long road, but this issue is finally resolved.

We’re not opposed to hosting non-Star Trek communities as long as they adhere to instance guidelines, but before you move you should know that the federation gap with .world is closing and should be finally caught up before the end of the week.

Time for startrek.website/c/theymightbegiants?

No worries at all, we want to make sure we’re providing a fast and reliable (well, as fast and reliable as is possible with beta software at least!) experience. Like I said I don’t notice .world missing very much but that doesn’t mean we don’t realize the value their communities provide to the overall ecosystem.

What was the community/post? It’s possible we removed it on our side (Also we are up to 4 days behind now, progress!).

Personally I don’t prefer the .world versions of most communities so I haven’t noticed much difference.

Hey just want to update you on this, we made some changes that appear to be working. We’ve gone from 1.47 weeks behind to 1.42. You can see the recent change here.

Oh, very nice! And yes, the blue was chosen because it matches with the default Lemmy upvote color.

As ValueSubtracted said please report. Reporting alerts startrek.website admins and the admins of the user’s home instance. If we notice another instance regularly not cleaning out their trash, we have the option to defederate from them.

Here is our FAQ. What kind of communities are you most interested in? I’d be happy to make some recommendations.

As ValueSubtracted said, as far as we can tell, the problem is on Lemmy.world’s side as we are not seeing any major disruptions with content from other instances. But we are looking into options on our end.

EDIT: We’ve made some adjustments that appear to be closing the gap

EDIE 2: The issue has been resolved

StarTrek.website saw 4 approved registrations in the past day, and we typically get about 1/day too.

Straight jump, no issues that I’ve noticed thus far.

We suspect this may have to do with their older Lemmy version as we’re noticing it on some other instances as well, but not .ml which is running the latest.

Tesseract is great!

Defederation is the nuclear option. Until now we had removed any communities we weren’t comfortable hosting, and treated users on a case-by-case basis based on how they behaved in our communities, which worked for a while but became untenable.

When we started this project the admin team felt that welcoming outsiders into our (wholesome, sane) Star Trek communities was the net-positive action. But as I said it became too much to handle so we unfortunately had to cut the cord.

I think Beehaw.org is. We’re 2/3 as well (now). .ml has some communities/users we’ve removed, but largely speaking .ml users have not caused any issues on our hosted communities, and we feel exposing them to our (generally awesome) communities is the net-positive here. Honestly .world’s (lack of) moderation is more actively an issue for our mods, but since they’re so big and we’re a niche instance we really can’t afford to de-federate from them.

Bookstack is great!