I had to do a double take when I saw Lemmy.ca spiked to 9.1k registered users

I think I found Lemmy from r/EhBuddyHoser, sweet find!

It’s a new world for me too. Thanks for having me.

I challenge every newbies to create 1-3 posts over the first 72 h here : what do you enjoy in social media usually? It doesn’t have to be perfectly new if it’s new on Lemmy: your favourite Reddit group isn’t represented here or silent for a while : show us a glimpse of what you like and see how much engagement you receive.

Hi! If you need reliable canadian hosting for lemmy.ca let me know. I am a co-founder of a Canadian Cloud and I will be happy to provide the infra for free. We are happy to help canada going out of American Corporation. If you are interested, let me know!

Congrats. Canada needs to build its own social media infrastructure.

I did some playing around with grafana. This data is all just number of signups per day, grouped by instance.

Here you can see our recent spike in users compared to normal:

Adding in some other large instances we all got an increase in traffic, but ours seems to be more sustained:

And for completeness, compared to all of lemmy (as visible by lemmy.ca, so only things we federate with):

Reddit's announced some more changes but I suspect the whole tariff situation is pushing Canadians extra hard.

Just joined to get away from Reddit - I’m pleasantly surprised with how active it seems here despite the much smaller community! This is exciting!

I'm not on lemmy.ca but as a moose I appreciate this post and my fellow Canadians 🇨🇦🫎

There's some Facebook 'buy Canadian' groups with over half a million people in - this server occasionally comes up there too when people are looking for Canadian hosted discussion sites to ditch big American tech like reddit or Facebook groups.

Seize the memes of production!

former r/onguardforthee fan here ... I've been on Lemmy.ca now for over a year ... happy to see others are hopping on board and jumping off the burning train wreck

ADDITION TO MY ORIGINAL .... one thing we current users of Lemmy should point out to any new users that are joining Lemmy either here at Lemmy.ca or any other fediverse instance is to REMIND EVERYONE TO DONATE TO AND SUPPORT THE INSTANCE THEY ARE ON. It's great that all this stuff is free for us to use but there are people here who work to develop, maintain and upgrade the source software and there are groups of people who maintain and manage the instances that we all use. We can't expect all these people to work for free. Many of them may not mind working for free and they might even enjoy it but there will come times when they either can't do it any more or they just run out of money, resources and time and energy to manage things as they grow more and more popular. No one complains when things are working but everyone will scream and shout as soon as their instance fails for one reason or another. Everyone or as many people as possible should find a bit of money to support their instance or the developers. Even if everyone gave a dollar, that would add up to thousands. If we keep these instances and the people that work and maintain all this well funded then we can all be safe and secure from any corporate rot that might creep into our communities.

Update: we just hit 9.2k! Keep up the surge folks! Keep Shadow busy tonight!

There isn’t room for multiple social media in my life and i will try with only Lemmy for a few months. I did came from r/BuyCanadian with curiosity more than the US boycott in mind. I plead guilty!

Its a great time to join. I think many of us have been lurkers in reddit and now with the tides of change we need to also make Lemmy active, especially the Canadian sites

Ooo, there's a Canadian Rexit happening? Cool! I keep my Reddit usage much more focused on niche hobby communities now, and there's zero talk of Reddit politics on those yet, sadly.

Wait you mean .ca is Canada and not California??

Lemmy is love. Welcome everyone :)

Oh Canada, we must come together to protect our country from the insane monsters south of our border.

Nope, here for a break from the drama on r/ehbuddyhoser.

Should probably find a place to cross post some of their memes here now that I think of it. The Bay of Nova Scotia was gold.

I was going to post my standard Tankie Triad warning for new users, but looks like lemmy.ca defed's from the entire Triad already LMAO

...I need to move to Canada....

I’ll still learning how to use it and I don’t know what the lemmys are or how the communities work but I’m happy I’m not supporting Reddit eh

What caused it?

Welcome everyone.

Why not sh.itjust.works?

I pictured something more like this.

Welcome fellow canucks!

I look forward to the communities you create and contribute to!

Update 2: 9.3k users has been hit! It keeps going!

Just joined today. Happy to be here and away from reddit!!

Yesssss! So cool!

after seeing a thread on r/buycanadian saying “petition to rename the Americano, a Canadiano” I knew the next step was to head over here & make an account lol

Good day, eh!

Doing my part and reporting in! 🫡

And us Americans from reddit and month old Rednote accounts.

Welcome all , lets keep it going . Also thanks for the super admin we got here .

It's is a bit embarrassing to admit, but this is the first time I've cried during our national anthem.

God keep our land glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee!

O Canada

Congrats

That's awesome