Welcome, new users!

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 😁

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.

Happy to be here with you all!

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).

Reddit old-timer from Toronto here. Happy to see how fast the Fediverse is evolving thanks to u/spez. Feels like the internet again.

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!

Okay this federated stuff is really growing on me.

The idea that you can sign up on any server, and still have a feed from many different servers is pretty cool.

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.

Hope you all have a great day!

My first post, and hopefully the picture i attached works. This is Loki, my 27 year old macaw, one of 2 rainbow chickens i have

Hey fellow (mostly) Canadians! Reddit Refugee of 13 years, this is my first Lemmy experience. I originally made a Lemmy.world account, but moved here as I felt more comfortable having the server hosted in Canada for data integrity/security.

Seems like a neat place, the distributed/"federated" stuff was a bit confusing at first, but seems neat. I guess we'll see how big the migration from Reddit to here is.

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.

New Brunswick Reddit refuge....

Hello from Canada's best and most important and relevant province!

Manitoba!

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

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. :)

Redditor of 12 years chiming in from BC :P

BC here, yet another reddit refugee. New to the fediverse and still trying to figure it out.

Thank you for all your hard work @smorks@lemmy.ca and @crb@lemmy.ca !

Hi,

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.

Hello from Ontario! Too bad we could not sign up with our existing Mastodon user account (is that even possible?).

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!

Hey everyone! I'm from Ottawa. Refugee from Reddit, looking forward to exploring Lemmy and the fediverse generally.

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!

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!

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!

Hello from Ontario. Using Jerboa.

Thanks for this awesome server, it really is so chill to have a place with decent users and without the drama of lemmy.world.

Coming from Reddit also, and trying to navigate around here - Happy Canada Day!🍁

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.]

Hello from Ottawa! This is my first Lemmy post. Reddit refugee.

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?

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)!

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 :)

Redditor of 11 years chiming in from BC.

Thanks for the welcome! I am from Sask originally, but currently residing in STILL FLIPPING SNOWY Nunavut!

No, I'm not bitter. Not at all. Nope. Too cold to be bitter.

Thank you for approving me! And on Canada Day too!

Hey neighbours! West coast checking in here.

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.

Can somebody explain to me why this is "Canadian Server, run by Canadians"... but located in the Netherlands?

Edit: thanks for the informative responses!

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.

Aloha. I see that "mamot.fr" is a linked instance here. Can I subscribe here, to something like mamot.fr/@pluralistic?

Hello Lemmians... Lemmites? Lemmons?

What's the preferred nomenclature for the denizens of this site?

Any reason why my front page is mostly posts from a week ago, regardless of whether i set it to "Hot" or "Active"?

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.

I'm from Kansas City! We're kinda like Canadians!

Thank-you for the welcome. Looking forward to the non-centralized fun

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 !community@host.tld 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.

Why do other some communities I'm subbed to when viewing through lemmy.ca show no posts, no users, etc?

Like if I view pixelart@lemmy.ml through lemmy.ca, it shows no posts.

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:

1. What is the stance on NSFL/gore content? Allowed, discouraged, banned?
2. 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.

Greetings shitlords, fellow Canadians.

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.

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 !indieheads@lemmy.world on lemmy.ca, nothing is found, having the same issue with !wine@lemmy.world. How do I subscribe to these communities from a lemmy.ca account? Thanks in advance for any help!

Heyo! Nice to be here, excited for Lemmy so far. Thanks for hosting!

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 :)

Let's link up and chat!

Omg did I actually figure out how to join? Yay

Is there a way to sort comments? Currently using Jerboa on android

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!

Hello, Lemmy community! Greetings from BC.

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 There,

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.

Hello all! Posting from Mlem on iOS 17!

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?

Hi folks!

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)

Here's to the future!

Northern Ontario checking in. Cheers everyone.

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.

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

I'm still not fully grasping this. Am I supposed to make accounts for multiple instances?

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.

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.

Here from Reddit, and this is looking like a great new space. Cheers!

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 Canada's Pants!

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 :)

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.

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?

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.

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?

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.

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?

Hello everyone, new to Lemmy!

I had randomly picked up Lemmy.world but found Lemmy.ca along the way.

Was hoping to sign up here but it seems to be having issues. Hopefully that gets resolved over the next few days and I can land over here with y'all.

If not, I guess it doesn't really matter. I can just sub around here too.

Fediverse is cool :)

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.

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?

Hello everyone,

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!