They must be those cool folks from r/onguardforthee and r/fredericton! Lets get off those american Reddit servers eh!
Update: there’s a thread on r/buycanadian with 93 upvotes, promoting the platform! Open the floodgates baby!
Good day, eh!
Struth, mate!
…wait
Oh Canada, we must come together to protect our country from the insane monsters south of our border.
The insane monsters in canada too. Cough pp Cough danielle Smith Cough cough
Unfortunately, she has a couple years of term left. Then Nenshi can eat her lunch.
It’s, “O Canada,” which means something very different than, “Oh, Canada.”
And a new AO3 tag is born…
Why did I never notice that before?
You’re probably just accustomed to the French, “Ô Canada!”
What? But O and Oh sound the same either way. Hmm.
Do we? Because this feels to me like a ruling class problem. Labour class is a lot less affected, and our efforts are mostly helping the exact same set of oligarchs who are working both sides of the border.
Just joined today. Happy to be here and away from reddit!!
You made it to safety! Welcome!
Good on you mate. Welcome
Congrats. Canada needs to build its own social media infrastructure.
They should also build a wall so our stupid stays south of their sovereign border.
Not all of us are stupid. Just a majority. No more than 3/4. Maybe. On a really good day.
Let’s just put the argument to rest by becoming Canadian. Please?
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.
No, I want to start exposing a grafana instance but for now I’m keeping this internal since it hits our live postgres.
The query if you want it is:
SELECT DATE(published AT TIME ZONE 'UTC') AS date, COUNT(*) FILTER (WHERE instance_id IN (SELECT id FROM instance WHERE domain = 'lemmy.ca')) AS lemmy_ca, COUNT(*) FILTER (WHERE instance_id IN (SELECT id FROM instance WHERE domain = 'sh.itjust.works')) AS sh_itjust_works, COUNT(*) FILTER (WHERE instance_id IN (SELECT id FROM instance WHERE domain = 'lemmy.world')) AS lemmy_world, COUNT(*) FILTER (WHERE instance_id IN (SELECT id FROM instance WHERE domain = 'lemmy.dbzer0.com')) AS dbzer0, COUNT(*) FILTER (WHERE instance_id IN (SELECT id FROM instance WHERE domain = 'jlai.lu')) AS jlai_lu, count(*) as all_lemmy FROM person GROUP BY 1 ORDER BY 1;Or here’s your instance overlayed with us to provide a comparison:
A suggestion from someone who frequently deals with observability infrastructure: it’s a good idea to set up a postgres exporter and record your data as Prometheus metrics, that way querying the metrics does not hit any of the production stack.
Prometheus is the goat, and is built into a surprisingly large amount of FOSS service tools. JupyterHub for example includes Prometheus metrics out of the box
Eh. Calling it the goat is excessive. I’m planning to go victoriametrics instead.
Yes the exporter format is common and widely supported though, which is nice.
Nice, thank you!
I’m not on lemmy.ca but as a moose I appreciate this post and my fellow Canadians 🇨🇦🫎
hey guys check out this moose over here.
Are you a tiny moose?
(cough) no, but my voice is a little hoarse
A moose once bit my sister
It means he’s playful.
She was making fun of the size of my antlers.
It was such a rough rut!
Wait you mean .ca is Canada and not California??
r/sellcalifornia
!sellcalifornia
I’ve known this for almost as long as I’ve been on lemmy… but I still read it as lemmy California at first.
It could be both if you joined us
Would they join Canada, or we we join them? Does it even matter?!
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California would be .ca.us but nearly no one uses .us addresses, a few states point their .us domain at their .com domain
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!
Let’s talk =)
Let the collaborations begin ;)
Let us know if you get this setup!
That’s so great yo, thank you from all fediversians
Also sorry from all USAians with brains 😭 srsly
Can I pay you in maple syrup?
Supplied from beautiful Quebec!
Quebec really is beautiful. Haven’t been in ages, would love to go back one day.
There’s great fishing in Quebec.
And cheese!
That’s almost more stable than the canadian dollars these days, I might consider ;)
rare hockey cards only, chum
Lemmy is love. Welcome everyone :)
We’re bunch of fluffy taneggs!
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.
A Facebook exodus!
Canadian Friendica will be here soon!
It’s URL is friendi.ca!
Thank you for informing me as that brings a smile to my face.
Also there’s a Quebec friendica instance called https://onjase.quebec/
They have 29 users and an uptime of 95%
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!
We like to party too!
Question for you: are pretty much all of the users Canadian or in Canada? Is it possible to tell?
Users that you see with an email-like suffix to their name are using different websites and are less likely to be Camadian (though, as you know/ we are everywhere). Users without the suffix (if your client omits local addressing) are on lemmy.ca and are much more likely to be Canadian.
though, as you know/ we are everywhere
True enough. I joined a British instance for reasons that seemed good enough to me at the time I signed up. I kind of pity any Canadian who decided to sign up with an American instance somewhere back in the depths of time, though—I don’t think Trump will manage to put a tariff on electrons, but I wouldn’t put it past him to try, and the last I checked, migration of accounts between servers in the Fediverse was still kind of half-baked.
I like being in a regional instance, it means I can view local and see Australian news etc, it also means I don’t need to tell people where I’m from as often
Users without the suffix (if your client omits local addressing) are on lemmy.ca
Just FYI, I don’t believe that this is strictly true. In most cases it is, but I’ve seen many users outside my instance without the suffix. I believe that if someone edits their display name it drops the suffix, or at least it used to. Maybe that’s been corrected?
I would assume most users are Canadian as they would have more related interests here.
Hi, I use sh.itjust.works, another fantastic Canadian instance, and I’m British! Big love!
You can join communities on other instances too if you have specific interests.
Welcome!
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
Fuckin’ a. Welcome
Update: we just hit 9.2k! Keep up the surge folks! Keep Shadow busy tonight!
Doesn’t the new server support at least 10x-100x the current capacity? I think it was a huge machine compared to the old one. I guess storage is separate.
That’s a lot of potential wiggle room. 92k to 920k potential registered users while currently LW has 174k, that’s one crazy hardware upgrade. The servers will become cheaper to run in the future as we put to use our economies of scale.
Now that you spell out these numbers, probably not 100x. 😂
Why not sh.itjust.works?
We can promote both! I just know Lemmy.ca more.
Your instance doesn’t really matter that much but personally, I feel like the bigger instances will be the ones more prone to enshitification.
The admins over here are Canadian and have set up a non-profit to keep everything they’re doing above board, so I like them. :)
Check out https://fedecan.ca/en/
Feddit.uk are also using a nice opencollective funding model, so it seems like these projects are nicely decentivised against a rogue admin selling the domain or selling the actual server
We also have one Admin in charge of the domains (me) and one in charge of the domains (GA), so we’d have to team up to go rogue. We also have processes to handover control if we get hit be a bus.
until you get hexbeared
Now you’ve jinxed it!
I do like the bus protocol, everyone should have one
We must protect the precious Feddit domains!
Why not lemmygrad, hexbear, or .ml?
Those aren’t Canadian to start…
it’s hard to tell a Canadian from a non-Canadian on the internet. It’s not like there’s a Captcha test for it. Can you imagine
Captcha: What is Madame Soleil’s first name?
Cirque?
Idk. So I guess it is working properly.
because of the tankies lol. don’t pretend you don’t know about the reputation those instances have.
Yeaaa, I made my account on .ml a while ago. Looking forward to when migrating accounts is supported to move home to .ca
Tanky?
“communists” that are mainly concerned with defending everything that the modern Russian and Chinese governments do and shitting on everything America does. i can vibe with the America bashing, especially right now, but China and Russia also generally suck in many of the ways that America is currently getting worse in.
Nothing to add other than “yup”, though with the caveat that if you block some users and their pro-Russia/China posts, its quite a peaceful place
Seize the memes of production!
that’s good
