There has been a steady trickle of new users here today, and in the past little while, mostly due to the bad decisions that reddit is currently making.
Anyways, welcome! Feel free to look around, and if you have any questions about anything lemmy related, feel free to ask!
Also, if you feel up to it, introduce yourself in the comments below!
The only roadblock I see is how difficult it is to follow communities outside your main instance. It would be nice if there was a log-in-as option so you can easily subscribe if you come across a page that isn't a part of your instance. Right now you have to either search it on your main, or copy the url over (which I've seen doesn't work all the time, but could be because of server load.)
I left MB 10 years ago for Sask! I miss the lakes and trees but we have a nice little home here. It’s also cool that people who live in the cities here aren’t scared to leave them!
Hi, I'm a programmer living in beautiful rural New Brunswick. I guess you can say I'm part of the Reddit exodus, but still unsure if I'll leave that platform for good. Hoping for a much better experience and interactions here. Have an awesome day, everyone!
Hello fellow humans. I’m actually from a different CA, California. But I’m a believer that you should choose an instance based upon the administration not on topic, and this one feels much more in line with my sensibilities than the other large ones. Sorry to stereotype, but the conversations feel kinder here than elsewhere (even by the already nice standards of lemmy instances overall.)
I don’t much like sharing personal type information online, so I hope you’ll forgive my brevity. I don’t work in tech, but have had a lifelong interest in it so I feel right at home here at the ground floor of a new community.
Hello from the forests of Quebec. I'm a huge fan of decentralization and open source tools. I will be hanging around here and watching reddit implode from afar. I was one of the digg exodus crowd, so I know that there is no way I can live without a link aggregator and discussion platform, lemmy seems like an instant win to me!
I'm a reddit refugee. I signed up at Beehow first, but after looking around, saw some of you fine folks from here showing up over there. Beehow seems nice, but even though I have no connection to it, I have always had an affinity for Canada, so I looked around over here and decided to make this my home. :) Although I'm thinking of setting up my own instance, too.
One of the reasons I thought I might be happier over here is that while Beehaw seems pretty neutral, my politics are not, so I figure in the long run, I probably share more in common with folks here than there.
I was on reddit since 2009 when I had my 15 minutes of fame and folks there invited me to do an AMA. I was a default mod for a while. I deleted /u/daychilde trying to escape reddit. Failed, went back, moderated some more. Left again, went back. I only mod my local city's subreddit now, and basically I'm done with reddit. Lemmy and tildes are replacements for me, and so far I'm liking them both!
I hope you will forgive me for being American and let me hang out with you fine folks :)
Thanks for the warm welcome smorks! Also here from reddit, and I can already tell that this is the online community I've been yearning for. People connecting with each other, engaging in discussion. There's a lot of good things that came from reddit over the years, but as I've read so many times in various relationship subreddits "When people show you who they are, believe them the first time" (sorry Maya Angelou).
Spez showed us what he really thinks of his userbase, and I'm proud to add reddit to the list of corporations I won't use because they're dicks.
Ahem.
Really glad to see a strong Canadian contingent here. May your timmies be hot and your beer cold 😁
I'm a reddit refugee like many others, and was delighted to find Canada well-represented in the fediverse!
Now I've been exploring various communities and have a question. Many posts seem to offer a link to another instance and all the comments are local to that instance. I don't think I can post there without opening a new account? Or am I wrong? I can comment in the post containing the link, but there is usually no activity there, so I can't join an ongoing discussion that way.
Or at least that's the way it appears to me. I'm confused!
If you can access the thread in another community you can post there without creating another account. That's the main draw of this setup. Still new myself and there is some growing pains finding the other instances communities but once I am there it is working
Well, here's an example of what I'm talking about. The post contains nothing but a link but when you follow that, it says You must log in or register to comment.
But I just noticed elsewhere it says I need to subscribe to [email protected]
So I've gone through the motions of doing that, but when I look at Communities -> Subscribed, it now says Subscribe Pending under [email protected].
I'm going to assume that once approved, I can then comment?
Thanks for making this Canadian instance :) I first created my account on Lemmy.ml, but also made one here since I am Canadian. Looking forward to seeing Lemmy grow as a whole, and see more Canadians join the Fediverise :)
For anyone interested, I've made a community for posting PC hardware/accessory sales (r/bapcsalescanada). Feel free to join and contribute. And if you know how to create an RSS feed, also let me know!
Thanks for the heads up! I guess I meant using an RSS feed from somewhere else, like RFD, or the actual BAPC subreddit so it auto posts here in my community.
Fifteen-year veteran of reddit checking in. So glad to be a part of this societal shift, and excited to see where we go from here!
If anyone else is missing an old-reddit/digg style UI on the desktop, I've published Rediggit for Lemmy. It's very much a work-in-progress, but it should scratch that immediate itch for more legroom. Currently for light theme only, but more coming (and feel free to hack away and shape my mess into something even better).
By all means! Mine itself is based off DarkFox's Old reddit-ish Lemmy. I hope to do a full rewrite in the coming weeks, to incorporate dark mode and make it all more robust, but wanted to share for any other ex-redditors looking for a hotfix.
Vancouver Island here. Happy to see a woodworking community getting going here already, and hoping to see a bigger rock climbing community on lemmy in the future. Thanks for hosting!
Checking in from Nova Scotia! Fellow Rexxiter (?) looking for a new location to plant roots with a good community. Primary interests are in automotive, woodworking, cycling, and electronics.
Hello from South Eastern Ontario! Great to be here! I'm about anything tech, fitness, automotive (cars, trucks, motorcycles, ICE, Hybrid, Electric), and overall physical and mental health!
Very open minded and always will to learn. I also have this uncanny ability to change my opinion and direction as long as there is sufficient data from reputable sources :)
Hello from Eastern Ontario. I am a Reddit Refugee and this is my first day on Lemmy. I'm happy to make lemmy.ca my home. I'm interested in maple syrup making, microcontrollers and using them to make maple syrup, and my first computer was a Commodore 64 and I recently completed a SixtyClone 250466 Commodore 64 clone. I'm a small farmer, amateur welder, and I am an information security sales engineer by day. I've created three communities and hope to contribute to Lemmy. If you think I might be interested in a community please point me in the right direction.
Introducing myself here. I'm a refugee from Reddit. I'm a father, Catholic, lawyer from rural Alberta near Calgary.
I've always been a big fan of open source software and I'm trying to figure out the federated model of social media. I figured this is probably the right place for me to pop into and branch out from here.
Looking forward to eventually replacing Reddit entirely if the Lemmy instances get to that point.
I'm pleasantly surprised there are so many people here already. The experience has been a lot better than I expected. The UI is nice and lean. It was super easy to subscribe to communities from this and other instances. It's really exciting to be a part of something for which the core mission is not shareholder value.
Hello! Came over from Reddit based on recommendations from Mastodon friends. Looking forward to interact on food, Habs, wine, Canadian politics, and tv shows. My last favourite was Succession. I can't start a new show for fear of being disappointed. What are you watching?
You got me thinking- I don't think I've watched a new TV show in at least a year, there's so many old favourites to binge through out there. I'm currently rewatching The X-Files.
Yet another reddit refugee from Canada's West Coast. I've been in reddit for 15 years, mostly as a lurker with intermittent contributions (mostly comments in discussion threads). I used to use old.reddit, so would not have been affected (yet) by the announced API changes directly, but I am disappointed in the most recent behaviour of the admins over there and their disregard for the communities at large and the countless contributions of volunteer moderators, developers and content contributors that helped reddit to grow to what it is today.
I'm looking forward to explore Lemmy and Tildes and enjoy the reddit feel of the earlier days.
Greetings from the Wet Coast, fellow Canuckleheads! Another Reddit Refugee. I've had such a great experience with Mastodon, I'm looking at other ways the fediverse and distributed social networks can inform and entertain, while preserving privacy and not selling its users information as product.
Interests include technology, Linux, tabletop RPGs, computer games, science, Indigenous language revitalization, plus whatever might make me curious.
Hi everyone! I’m another Reddit lurker checking out Lemmy in light of the upcoming changes there. I’m in Ontario near the GTA and looking forward to what the community builds. Thanks for hosting the server!
Hello! Another Reddit refugee here. Saskatoon is home for me. Looking forward to figuring out how Lemmy and the Fediverse differs from what I'm used to.
Hello and thanks for the greetings!
Yet another reddit refugee from Canada's east coast.
Looking forward to learning the ropes around here and enjoy some comments.
Hopefully this site can remain as a refreshing change from other sites.
Hello from Vancouver! Like many others I'm a Reddit refugee. My interests include AI, data science, homemade vegan ice cream, Linux, tech, Linux gaming, and Pathfinder 2e.
Good Afternoon My Fellow Canucks (Canadians) and Canadian Lovers Eh!
Like many of you, I have also left Reddit and plan to make my home here. I'm in York Region in Ontario and well have a distributed set of friends all over the place. Lots of love to my brothers and sisters in the surrounding Provinces.
As for me, well I tend to read about technology, play allot of board games, and seem to dabble in Linux land while helping people with techie issues. I'm currently trying to learn the board game "Earth" which at some point will teach at game night.
Reminds me a lot of Apollo (it being killed by Reddit is why I am no longer going to use Reddit). There's quite a bit of features lacking at the moment, but it is really good knowing that it is in early stages of development. Would love to contribute to its code.
I had Jerboa installed on my phone for the last month or so. The Reddit issues finally got my butt in gear. I've gotten into open source software and self hosting in the past year and while I manage Windows environments in my professional life I moved to Linux in my personal environment. Really helps separate work/home life and I've learned a ton of new stuff which I love. Happy to be a part of the fediverse!
I'm not exactly a Reddit refugee, since I've been using a variety of decentralized communications systems for a while. I even still make small use of Usenet! That said, now seems like a good time to get signed up on a lemmy instance with my "real" username.
I chose this instance for several reasons. It seems like a solid and sane instance (from my perspective!). It helps keep the load off of the "main" instance (which load would be less if someone put some effort into not making it seem like the obvious place to sign up). Last but not least, hello from Southern Saskatchewan!
Hello from Ottawa , the 613. Can anyone point me to url for the history of the Lemmy site, perhaps even the backstory of Lemmy.ca ? I didn't check into Reddit back in 2015. I am interested. I was led here by a reddit moderator in the electronics industry.
Edit2 I found Michaels intro post and the ten tutorial inks and I will start there
i can give you the quick history of lemmy.ca. kinetix started this instance back in 2020 i believe. around January, 2022, he was asking if anyone wanted to take over the site. so i volunteered, and around the beginning of February 2022 it had been transferred over.
it's been pretty quiet here since then, until the whole reddit fiasco recently, and it's great to see all the new users and increased activity!
I've been a reddit user for a lot of years, and have been looking for an alternative for a while now. Maybe this is it? I like things that are free, open-source, distributed, federated, etc. I want to give my energy to this kind of community, not something run by a corporation.
Hi everybody! Nice to meet you all. :D I'm over in Ottawa, and I'm completely new to Lemmy (immigrating from Reddit), so I hope I can learn the culture of this place okay!
First thing's first: I'm going to figure out how to navigate this place, and then I'm going to start talking to folks. Wish me luck (or wish me a For Redditors help guide). :P
Edit: This is probably going to make the OG Lemmings (Lemmites?) cry, but I think this place makes easier sense if I go at it like:
Instance = subreddit
Community = post flair
Because each instance is its own website with its own admin, and each community is a group within that instance. I can join a community to chat about whatever the community's about, but if I want to go to the communities in a different instance, it's like going to a different subreddit; I can't just find it by trying to 'filter' the communities by their 'flair' since that community isn't 'here'. It's at a completely different subreddit/instance/website. :)
Hi! I just joined as well. I haven’t decided yet whether I give up Reddit or not. I am happy with my move to Mastodon so I figured I try Lemmy as well. I am in Alberta 👋🏻
Question on the nuance of federation-- is there a reason to spin up a community locally in .ca if a really popular one already exists in another server? Would most people here just sync up to that other server and ignore the local one? I'm thinking we might want to avoid having 500 communities for everything
Coming from a reddit mindset where it was easier because you just had one community to think about
edit: by this I don't mean "can we" but rather what's best practice or what does the existing community tend to default to
hi everyone! one more from the reddit exodus… currently living in southwestern ON. hoping to join some communities focused on gaming, hiking and beer drinking in the area! if you got any suggestions, let me know!
Just joined here and Mastodon. Using a web blocker and finding alternatives to break my Reddit habit and leave that place behind. Looking forward to learning new platforms.
i was just going to tell you that you could do that, but you figured it out yourself, haha. unfortunately there's currently no way to the the reverse (lemmy to mastodon), i don't believe.
Hey there, is there anything I can do about a single community dominating my “hot” sorting in the subscribed homepage?
My subscribed communities are a mix of very small and very large communities, but when I view my subscribed feed it’s almost exclusively the largest ones, with the same posts dominating for several days. This effectively makes the subscribed page useless for me.
Is there no way to see a variety of communities like I would with the Reddit algorithm? Thanks!
Hey thanks for the response. I generally find Active is just as bad for surfacing older threads. At a glance most of them are 4-5 days old. Might simply be out of luck for now but I'll take a look at that link you sent. Cheers.
The issue with Hot and Active seems to be that comments weigh in a little too heavy. Since these are the top sorts, all these new Lemmings see these threads, comment, and keep them at the top.
When numbers stabilize (or at least stop doubling every couple of days) this might resolve itself, or maybe the Hot sort might get an tweak.
Hi, another Reddit refugee here from Vancouver Island! I've had some experience with federated software through Mastodon, but I like Reddit-style forums better.
My life revolves around finding cool rocks, polishing those cool rocks into neat little shapes, then making silver jewelry out of them. Also DIY/home decorating, plant-based cooking, and playing the same old video games over and over.
Will do! Right now I'm working through Octopath Traveler 2. My go-to games for mindless downtime are Binding of Isaac and Minecraft, but in general I'm a born and raised Nintendo boy.
Hello from beautiful BC! I am also transitioning to this platform from Reddit. My interests include book binding, video games, sobriety/recovery, reading, hockey, and Star Wars.
Another Western Canadian reddit refugee here. I still can't decide if I consider myself Albertan or British Columbian. I've spent about an equal amount of my life in each province. Alberta does have the lower drinking age and less taxes so it might edge out the competition.
Yep, me too! I remember moving over from Digg and finding Reddit to be really bare bones after Digg. The interface seemed so old school and not appealing at all. But I obviously got used to it and it became my new online home. I'm sure my experience with Lemmy will be similar in that any minor gripes will dissipate over time as I get used to it. And hopefully without all the drama of those previous sites!
Glad to be here. I am still trying to comprehend how all these different servers/instances work but lemmy should hopefully be more resilient from a takeover a la twitter (never had a twitter account fortunately) or an implosion from above a la reddit.
Sorry for the dumb question, but how do I interact with all the other servers/instance (for example beehaw.org or lemmy.ml, etc.) do i use the same login and password as the lemmy.ca?
your lemmy.ca credential only work lemmy.ca instance, but if you select posts from "all" you gonna see posts from lemmy.ml, beehaw.org,etc and you can comment and upvote just fine
(in mastodon you can migrate accounts between instances but this is a feature in development here)
I randomly found an incredibly helpful post by @tezoatlipoca over on a lemmy.ml thread about how we're going to pay for "all this". It was there I saw that lemmy.ca existed so when it was time to register, I knew exactly where to go. Thanks again, mate.
Thank you for the welcome and hello everyone. All the major platforms have censored my free speech so now I'm spreading the word to Lemmy users in the great state of CA!
One time a young man, very big man and obviously from CA, came up to me with tears in his eyes and he told me "sir, you are so incredibly stable, I was about to lose my grip on reality until I found out about how incredibly stable you are and I thought 'if he's stable, I'll be stable too'" and he was for the rest of his days people. My stability did that. Who knows what he might've done, maybe nothing but probably something, we don't know, but if you put me in prison, the people who need my stability, they're wonderful special people but they might do some bad things. Sad!
[Hello, I'm in St. John's where it's currently 6 degrees with a light drizzle.]
Yet another Reddit migrant here. Stopped using RIF the day the blackout started and never went back.
I downloaded a app today called Connect for Lemmy from the Google app store. Seems ok so far, and decided to connect to your instance since, hey I'm in Canada.
I seemed to find a lot of the local communities I was in on Reddit here, however the content is not nearly as much as in Reddit. Hopefully more people migrate here.
If you ever do set something up to help fund the ongoing costs I'm definately in.
New to lemmy as a previous redditor. I'm having a hell of a time trying to subscribe to other server's communities. For instance, if I search [email protected] on lemmy.ca, nothing is found, having the same issue with [email protected]. How do I subscribe to these communities from a lemmy.ca account? Thanks in advance for any help!
i first tried the search for [email protected], but then tried the url (https://lemmy.world/c/indieheads), and it found it. a bit weird, but it now looks like if you search either one now it'll come up. maybe a weird federation quirk.
Is there anyway for users to hide/dismiss pinned messages? This topic keeps appearing first and the only option seems to be block you, or main. Both of which I don't want to do, I personally just do not need to see this 2 week old pinned message, I know others do though
There seems to be an issue with the signup process on lemmy.ca. I've been trying to signup for a while today but the Sign Up button just keeps spinning when I click it. I've tried numerous things to try to fix it and nothing seems to work. Signed up on a different server so I could report the issue.
hmmm, that's really weird. i've had a bunch of signups today already, and had one just a few minutes ago? i'll test it out and check the logs to see if i can find anything.
i think i heard some other users have issues and i think they maybe tried with a different browser and it worked? or maybe it's an extension or something causing issues? as long as javascript/websockets is enabled there should be an issue?
actually, come to think of it, i thought i read about an issue where it wasn't giving a proper error if something went wrong, like a duplicate username or something. if you let me know the username you were trying i can see if it exists already or not?
Like pretty much everyone else in this thread, I've got a nerdy background and I'm jumping ship from Reddit before spez completely implodes the site. Time to grab some poutine and enjoy the fireworks, I guess.
Very new to Quebec, really excited about the sudden increase in decentralization. Mostly here for learning about Canada+QC and lurk on linux related chatter :)
Hey! New Ontarian user here. I'm jumping ship from Reddit before my favorite app loses API access. It's a real shame Reddit went that route.
I'm a software developer by day. I love gaming, sci-fi/fantasy paper/audio books, metal and electronic music.
I hope Reddit suffers a serious exodus. Maybe the secret to ending the cycle of shitty corporate social media is to help with the open source federated approach?
What's your favourite sci-fi era? I'm quite partial to golden age, despite it's many many maaaannnny flaws. Just something about the idea that the author would set Mr Average Joe on an adventure, which he's quite prepared for, because everyone knows how to navigate in space.
Golden Age, based on your description, seems to fit the description of a lot of my favourite books. I have a hard time picking favourites, so here are a few series, plus a few singles, I absolutely loved:
I'm not really understanding how communities work across servers. I was able to create /c/Nintendo, as well as subscribe to /c/Nintendo from lemmy.world. I can comment in either, but when I go to the one from lemmy.world from lemmy.ca I can only see my comment and none of the other comments in that thread.
Glad to be here! I went ahead and made a couple of communities to mirror Reddit's KingstonOntario. I prefer the underscore since there's no capitalization, but I made another without the underscore just to avoid someone else making it and splitting the community. Hopefully we can get more posts and ones of higher quality than over on the ol' Reddit. I've been using Reddit since before Digg thought it would be a good idea to do exactly what Reddit is now doing... History repeats itself until we learn I guess!
Hello all, I'm (yet another) new user from reddit, moving on once again. I'm currently in the Montreal area, and my interests include sewing, gardening and bending computers to my will. Hoping to become more active here than I ever was in reddit, but still working on figuring out this fediverse.
Hi all, happy to be here. Just joined a few moments ago. Looking forward to discovering how the fediverse works in this context (also a mastodon user)!
Another Reddit refugee here. Just signed up and am looking around and figuring it all out.
I see there's a significant number of some of the subreddits communities that I frequented that don't seem to exist here yet. So, naturally, I am motivated to create some of these.
Where and how do I announce to lemmy.ca and to other servers that a new community has been created? Is there a protocol for this, and a community for such announcements?
Hello fellow Canucks! Slowly getting used to how this all works and gotta admit, it's kind of neat so far! Looking forward to trading my crippling reddit addiction for a crippling Lemmy addiction.
Fairly new here--- I'm trying to sub to some /c/ in .ml but I'm seeing "subscribe pending" and I wasn't seeing that when I was subscribing to communities earlier. Is this a bug or does my sub request need approval from a mod in that community?
no, there should be no approval required. it's likely just because .ml is overloaded right now, as i was getting the same thing. will continue to monitor it.
Hello there. I've been dabbling a bit on sites to escape reddit and that retard spez. I am currently trying this, said it, scored and poal. I'm hoping I can find a new place to enjoy. My main concern is the hobby subs may not compare well to those I used on reddit.
Who is the admin for this server? Can you tell us about yourself? What makes this server different from some others (except for its Canadian bias, of course).
Is it run on AWS instance, and are you self funding it?
i'm the admin. i'm a software developer, living in Winnipeg, MB. I spend a lot of time watching my son play baseball in the spring/summer, own a dog that sometimes acts like a cat.
Not sure what makes this server different from others? I will do my best to make this place a safe, welcoming space for all. Will probably need some help along the way as we grow.
It's currently run on a VPS on lunanode, a canadian provider. I'm currently self funding it, but plan on accepting donations to help run it as well.
Do you mind sharing how big of a VPS is required to run an instance this size? One of the issues with Mastodon is that it's written in Ruby and it requires a lot of money to run a decently sized server. I'm wondering if Lemmy is more efficient given that it's written in Rust
Calgarian living in Shanghai here. Really disappointed in the direction that reddit is heading, so may be looking for a new home. Hoping to find discussions about hockey, cycling, Android, and scifi / Star Trek which were my favourite things to talk about on reddit.
Howdy folks! Name's Series, and I'm from Ontario. I'm another one of those people who've been heading to Lemmy from Reddit after their rather unwelcome policies as of late. I first heard about it a few months ago, and thought the whole concept of federation was pretty cool, but didn't sign up. Clearly, that was a mistake.
This place seems pretty cool so far. I think I've still gotta get the hang of navigating, but that won't take long. Can't wait to see all the communities that'll pop up.
Hey all, I'm an ex-pat living in the UK, Scotland to be precise...er. I'm from Vancouver, and I'm on lemmy.ml, as .ca didn't appear to be an option when I signed up.
I'm a Stone Mason, have a cat who's a bit of a shithead, and I make electronic music as a hobby.
Thanks for having a place for us Canucks to congregate eh!
I have a background in IT/Networking/Infrastructure, so if you need a hand or a brain to pick for running this place, just drop me a DM! Also if you need donations to cover costs, best to get OpenCollective/Patreon going on sooner rather than later.
I am Systems Analyst that has been working in IT for the past 30 years. Mostly interested in technology discussion around open source software, systems and network troubleshooting.
I am so pleased to find a suitable alternative to reddit. Before reddit I mostly just visited Slashdot - And I've been going back recently as well. I hope to frequent lemmy + slashdot now.
Just curious to hear from any long-time users what expectations might need to be managed for a new user to lemmy/fediverse.
in my opinion, lemmy is still pretty young in terms of features. most of the basic features are there, but i'm sure there will be some things from reddit that people will miss.
it will also be interesting to see if our servers are able to handle the potential upcoming surge of users. i will try and be as transparent as I can if the server is struggling to keep up!
I'm not really new (was on Mastodon.social years and years ago, now self host my own instance, also have been on a different Lemmy instance for about a year).
I've had an account on Reddit for awhile, deleted it, then made a new one, but now thinking of deleting it again. I made an account here in case something happens with my other Lemmy account because that instance is relatively inactive. Also I'm Canadian and I think that part of my identity takes precedence over any other consideration so having a Lemmy.ca profile makes sense.
Hey everyone. One of my primary activities on Reddit was watching videos in one way or another. I used to use RES on desktop and Sync for android, both of those had embedded video players. It's a very tiny feature but I miss it, is there anything like that for Lemmy yet?
Same goes for gifs, I haven't really seen any moving pictures on here lol
Can someone explain a little bit about how federation works? Can I log into other Lemmy servers using my lemmy.ca login? Also can I create communities that exist across multiple servers?
I always relate it to another federated service like email.
You create an account on a provider like Hotmail, Gmail, or yahoo. It doesn't really matter which one you choose because you can access emails from any other provider.
You cannot sign into hotmail.com using your Gmail account. If you go to Yahoo.com directly then you can't interact with content there because you're not signed in there. But if you are signed in at gmail.com and then follow accounts from yahoo.com, the all the emails from those yahoo accounts will show up in your Gmail page.
I would love to know too. Maybe a link to a Lemmy how-to ? I have a true fear of missing out I think. For example, if I follow /c/hockey on lemmy.ca, do I also get the posts from other instances ? Someone help us ! :)
I've been fiddling around with it a bit. I think the way it works is that you sign up to an instance, and log into a specific instance. You can search for communities on other instances - e.g. ifyou search for https://lemmy.ml/c/memes, which is the memes community on the lemmy.ml instance, you can subscribe to it, even from this instance.
Thanks for the welcome! Lemmy sure is a bit different, but a distributed approach feels like the right way. I guess you could call me a digg and a reddit refugee since I'm pretty much done with both of those.
I'm an old tech dude these days, I guess. But I know a good bit of new tech too.
I'm still finding my way around and I've kind of figured out the remote subscribing thing...but there are some communities that I cannot see in the search despite knowing that they are there (if I visit the other instance directly). I've seen posts where people say to just do a search for that community and it will get indexed on your instance, but it doesn't seem to be working for me.
For example: /c/[email protected] is a valid community over on beehaw, but I can't subscribe to it by searching it here (or by going to the extended URL myself) and despite having tried several times to do the search, it just isn't indexing for me to be able to subscribe to it.
EDIT: I have now been able to get it added. Beehaw was probably just overwhelmed this morning. Thanks all for the help.
I just signed up tonight. I tried to log in about an hour after signing up, and it worked. Now I have to see whether I can find a community that lives elsewhere on lemmy.
Top of the Day or New seem to be the best options right now. Top of the Day should return new posts with lots of activity, while New will often return posts that don't yet have comments.
I agree this is a complaint that I hope will soon go away. It seems the algorithm also takes into account comments as "activity" so the front page posts get the most comments and thus stay "active" for too long.
A bit of a late reply but the sorting methods were bugged in the 0.17.4 release of lemmy. This current 0.18 release has fixed them so it should be working better now.
I'm not Canadian nor do I live in Canada however I have been following Canadian issues for some time now and am thinking about joining CanadaPolitics. I am from New Zealand (hence my username). I would like to interact with average Canadians to find out what life is like over there. Don't panic, I am not thinking of emigrating there. I understand you have a housing crisis over there at the moment. I watch a lot of Canadian YouTube channels. My interest is more about what life is like over there.
I suppose I should mention I am a long time Reddit user which looks like it is imploding these days.
As I am new here are there any rules I should know about?
Correct! The server running this and all data is stored in Canada.
Here's a blurb from a doc I'm working on:
Lemmy.ca is hosted in Canada at OVH in Beauharnois, QC with all data on a dedicated server. Backups are PGP encrypted and pushed to the OVH backup service, however these will be moved off-site in the near future.
We use Cloudflare as a security and performance layer in front of the server. They accept the traffic for Lemmy.ca through a worldwide network of ingestion points, scrub it of abusive traffic, cache the images, and pass it through an encrypted tunnel to our server. This means they can see in plain text the data sent between us including your credentials, posts, comments and images. You can read more about their policies at https://www.cloudflare.com/trust-hub/.
Hello everyone. It's nice to meet everyone, it's so warm here. You may call me Lenny since it's the real nickname of mine people have started referring to me as. I'm a 23-year-old woman from Vermont who works for a reporting place (sort of) and likes art and cryptography. I'm on both Lemmy and Reddit but Lemmy has truly grown on me. Thanks for having me here, and feel free to ask questions.
Hello, I'm a long time lurker from Reddit. Thought I would give this a try, I'm interested. I live in Ontario and work in healthcare IT. I'm still figuring out how Lemmy works. I used to browse Reddit by /r/all and filtered out the communities I didn't want to see.. looks like I can sort of do that by setting the filter at the top to All.
I'm very curious how June 12th is going to shake out. Will Reddit back down? Is this price anchoring? Are they going to lower the cost? There's no way I'm paying a subscription to use reddit, even if it was $1 a month lol
Nice to meet you all! Still getting used to the website, I have some instances who work always great, and others working meh, but hey, I think a lot of tweaks will have to be made because we are a lot to migrate here lol
This is fantastic; thank you for hosting this instance. I was more of a Reddit lurker but intend to be more active on this federated platform to help the community build. Having lurked a bit before registering I have to say that I hope the community vibe stays the same as it seems less toxic so far than a lot of the Reddit communities.
Hey all! Came here after the Reddit news like a lot of you. Getting my feet wet around here, but I'm into technology and metal so that's where I'll head out to.
Hey again, been a while since I posted in this thread! Was hoping to clarify a bit on the Lemmy.ca rules if I could. I have two questions:
What is the stance on NSFL/gore content? Allowed, discouraged, banned?
We have the rule "No porn." This sounds simple, but what is classified as porn. Is all nudity porn? Is nudity alright in an artistic context such as the Statue of David? What about a medical/injury setting, or a non-pornographic setting such as "public freakout" videos?
I ask these questions as I moderate !roadcam which could have both of these sorts of content posted to it, if not often. I am unsure if I want to ban that content outright, but it would be handy to know the instance rules first.
In the rules it says no porn allowed, does that also mean no viewing/commenting under porn? What if you post porn to another instance?
It's not the content I came here to post, but I think the answer will help me understand better how this works as the inter-operability is a bit confusing. As in, is the content posted to another instance hosted there or on this one (due to my account being here), and do I follow their rules, these rules, or both?
viewing/commenting is fine. posting to another instance, it not allowed, because the media would still be stored on this server.
yes, with federation things can get confusing. generally, i would say that you'd need to follow the rules of both servers, when posting/commenting on another instance.
With reddit going south with their API change (it seems), it's nice to have a new place to chat, discuss and get informed. Hopefully the disinformation will be kept to a minimum!
Hi, i am not canadian but chose here because i dont want to contribute to one server such as lemmy.ml getting to large. I have actually had this account for a while and am a frequent mastodon user but hadnt really kicked the tires much around here.
likely because you're the first subscriber from this instance, and currently there's some issues subscribing to lemmy.ml communities, I believe because they have so many users now. if you look at the community it will likely say "subscription pending", so I don't believe it's ever registering on their instance.
the only workaround I know of is to trying to subscribe when it's less busy there.
Is there a way to export a list of all the communities (or kbin magazines) that I'm subscribed to? I can see the list on the right side of the front page, but that's more in the URL style -- I'd still have to parse out the [email protected] format of the community/magazine.
While all this was lemmy/kbin situation was fleshing out, I made accounts on a few different servers, but I'd like to centralize eventually.
It's nice to be here! I've been meaning to check this place out for a while, and suddenly there's much more activity, so now seems like a good time :)
Is there a Patreon page or something where we can send donations for lemmy.ca in particular? I'd love to be sure you have what you need to keep this all running.
Fediverse fan here, joining here as there's no Irish lemmy that I could find. I'll be looking for Music/Guitar/Piano communities, and software/programming type groups.
Hi! Thank you and hi everybody :) I just opened account here and seems really good and better than I though it was due bad feedback of some people. Maybe Reddit has signed their gradually death sentence with the APIpocalypse. Using currently Jerboa and tried Lemmur before. Both are good but the design and intuitive UI I rather Jerboa. But I don't receive notifications I think :(
Somebody know why? Some bugs writing comments also, maybe due the high traffic for the huge exodus from Reddit or Jerboa bug? I could connect with Kbin Social or Mastodon also since here? How? Thank you!
we currently are having some issues with federation with kbin.social, i believe because they started to use cloudflare when the reddit fiasco started, and it's not playing well for our server for some reason. (i think that's the issue anyways).
we also have some mastodon issues, where for some reason searching for posts/comments/users/communities isn't working. i'm working with another mastodon admin to try and resolve the issues.
I think maybe it doesn't have them yet. Is relatively a new project, in their beginning, version 0.0.30, but I think it could be an amazing app!!
I'd like to contribute but sadly Idk how to programming yet, I only know a bit of Python and I have to look the little exercises I made yet to can remember. But want to be a good programmer in the future, hope isn't to late to study about it and work after with the AI growing.
Is possible access to Kbin.social from Lemmy.world and comment there? Or what I would need to do? And join communities? New in federated communities, I tried on Mastodon a time ago but I didn't understand it very well.
I'm Anvil, a student in his final term of an I.T. program. I moved to Ontario for school, so it's been a bit of a wild ride. I'm hoping to find a good Reddit alternative for after RIF goes down due to corporate greed.
General interests include games (PC, switch, PS5), books (fantasy and sci-fi mostly), movies, and music. Big fan of board games and TTRPGs too (#ForeverDM)
Hello! I have a question. In the settings, there’s this thing called the Matrix User. What is it for/What does it do, and would it be useful to make a Matrix account?
yes, if you have a Matrix account, or if you create one and put it in there, then other users will see a "Send Secure Message" button on your profile page, which will open Matrix to send you an encrypted message.
One thing I find confusing is the notification bell icon. I notice that even if I check it, it still registers the same number of notifications that it had done previously. This number never seems to go down. What's with that?
Hi all from Québec city, I came here searching for a new home, since reddit is likely dying, and had been getting less friendly as time went on. I am still finding my way around here. Thanks to everyone who is making this community possible.
Hello world. :) I keep leaving he big boys for the Federated spaces. Sadly, no one I know is doing the same, so I'm a little adrift. Maybe that will change someday. Thanks for having me though. This really does fit the way I like to use a computer better.
Hi, everyone! Evaluating Lemmy to see if it's the right place for some Reddit communities if Reddit's screen-reader accessible third party apps go away. While there are certainly some issues, it's not that far off.
So I joined the .ml instance because .can wasn't listed...but is there a reason why it's so difficult to find the communities from Lemmy.ca when I search?
Still trying to get used to the new setup over on Lemmy, however trying to make some new communities work. Want to get /c/ontario and /c/waterloo running with some active discussions and people. Hopefully we can make a difference. :)
Edit: I'd also love to know the hardware that you're running this on!
Can you not downvote comments across all of lemmy or is it a per-instance thing?
downvotes are federated across instances. some instances can choose to not allow downvotes, so i think it shows up differently for those instances than for others that do allow downvotes?
So... still wrapping my head around the whole concept of of federated spaces. By way of comparison, if I go to Reddit, and I search for subreddits, it searches all of reddit, and pulls up the relevant information. If I do a search here, am I searching ONLY the Lemmy.ca server, or does that search ALL of the Lemmy fediverse? If not, how does one do that? CAN one do that? Sorry for the newbie questions. I want to make the move from Twitter/Reddit to Mastodon/Lemmy, but I want to get it so I can indoctrinate my over cautious, set-in-their-ways friends. :)
I could be wrong, but I believe when you search it searches all constant that has been "federated" to the server your searching on. in other words, any remote communities that are subscribed by users on this instance will be searched. something along those lines, anyways, haha.
Thank you for your reply! See, that's what I thought, but I tried a few searches that I was sure would pull up a community--things like "fashion" or "volkswagen" or "Beatles" and I come up with no search results. I'd buy that those communities may not exist in a new(er) Canadian-focused server, but across the whole Fediverse of servers? I dunno. I still think there's things about this place that I don't get. Ah well, in time, I'll learn I'm sure. Thank you again for taking the time to reply.