Otter @ otter @lemmy.ca

I waddled onto the beach and ~~stole~~ *found* a computer to use.

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Nope, lemmy.ca is Canadian and so is another big Lemmy instance called sh.itjust.works. There are also lots of smaller instances that are by Canadians. Since anyone can set up an instance, more technical users (with a background in that kind of thing) have set up instances for themselves or their friends / family. A university or local government could also set one up.

But the rest of the network is vast. A lot of the other Lemmy instances (ex. feddit.uk, jlai.lu) are European, aussie.zone is Australian, etc. Many of the instances are generalist instances not focusing on any location (lemmy.world, lemm.ee, etc) or topic specific (programming.dev is focussed on that).

I hope that's not too much information, I'm excited is all :)

Welcome! :)

Going off of what people have mentioned in the registration applications, it is a combination of

• wanting to support Canadian, and avoiding American tech companies (due to tariffs and other concerns)
• concerns with how big tech has changed for the worse these past few months
• Reddit's recent actions, such as banning (and then reversing) a bunch of communities and the recent paywall announcement
• learning about it for the first time and being excited about the concept

The first point is why lemmy.ca has seen more relative growth this week than the others, but a lot of fediverse instances have seen growth recently

For sure! If it helps, we put together this page on what the word means more generally (for all types of fediverse websites, and not just Lemmy). The infographic style images might be helpful

https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-started

For lemmy.ca specifically, you can think of the entire website as being one 'instance' of a larger network of similar websites. It is possible to shut down the 'federation' and just exist as our own isolated forum (similar to Reddit), but that defeats the purpose of running this kind of website.

This page should also help you see how it affects a Lemmy website like ours

https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/detailed-overview

What I like doing is posting to the small community first, and then cross posting from there

That way people in the larger community can follow the link back and learn about the community if they're interested. It also helps to mention the community at the start of the cross post since Lemmy doesn't do that automatically

Here are some more tips, put together by @Rentlar@lemmy.ca in this post

Quick FAQ:

I'm actually not sure if we have a community like that yet, if someone wants to make it feel free :)

Belgica antarctica, or the Antarctic midge, is the only insect that lives year-round on its namesake continent. Do you know how weird you have to be to be the only insect somewhere? But this midge doesn’t care. It just lives out its bug life, which lasts two years, in an otherwise bugless wasteland.

Humans definitely care about the midge, though—how could we not? What is it doing there? How is it not dead? What can it teach us about cryopreservation? These questions are addressed in a new study that resolved mysteries about the animal’s interesting life cycle.

The paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-86617-4

This is why the quantum expander device is helpful

What's the little guy snacking on 😄

Totally fair

Scrubs comes to mind as a show that is medical, while being more wholesome / comedic. There are probably better recommendations out there

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That might not be Kevin actually, looks like Kevin was wearing matching blue pants. Unless something happened in the bathroom anyway

Fair enough, they show the injuries and procedures in detail

It’s like The Bear but in a hospital

This was my thought as well, it lets you 'into the room' with them in a similar way.

Friends in the medical field enjoyed it, one criticism being "it's too real" lol

Reminds me of

I was going to eat that Mummy

This is a Drop-in session. No 'registration' required ...

I went to grab Bobby Tables and found this new variation

I like the attention to detail with the windows after the kid ran to the other side of the school

!bestoflemmy@lemmy.world comes to mind, is that close to what you're looking for?

Good feedback

Do you think it would be better to define it, or use different words entirely?

For example

... because of open standards which is a common language that they all speak. Email providers and...