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!
edit: Here’s a nice getting started guide for lemmy: https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2023/06/11/lemmy-migration-find-subreddits-communities/
i should have added it here a while ago!
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 😁
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.
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.
Coming from Reddit also, and trying to navigate around here - Happy Canada Day!🍁
Greetings
shitlords, fellow Canadians.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.
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?
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.
It’s like email but Reddit style
That makes way more sense!
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.)
It’s easy with Mlem on iOS
Mastodon makes it easy to follow someone on a different instance, so I expect it’s only a matter of time that Lemmy adds that functionality (especially now with the influx of new users)
Yeah, I read that before, but I didn’t really understand what that meant.
Email is federated as well. You sign up to a server (ex. Gmail.com), then you use and interact only with gmail.com, but you can then tell gmail to send an email to another server such as outlook, and it’s the same for their users.
Difference being the content is public here, whereas email isn’t, and Lemmy also uses ActivityPub which is a standard to forward messages between servers.
Hello from Canada’s best and most important and relevant province!
Manitoba!
yessss!
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!
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:
- Bobiverse, Dennis E. Taylor
- Expeditionary Force, Craig Alanson
- Red Rising, Pierce Brown
- Foundation, Isaac Asimov
- The Expanse, James S. A. Corey
- Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Project Hail Mary & The Martian, Andy Weir
For me its
- The Martian, and Artemis by Andy Weir
- Termination Shock by Neil Stephenson
- 2001, 2010, 2061, 3001 Odyssey series by Arthur C Clarke
- lots of David Brin
- lots of Greg Bear
- One Second After (series) by William Forstchen
- The Wool Omnibus (series) by Hugh Howey
- Beacon 23 by Hugh Howey
- After Sundown by Linda Howard
- Solar Flare by Larry Burkett
- etc
I really enjoy books with a solar flare componet due to my being a ham radio op. I also love apocolypse books of nearly any type. Just no zombies as they freak me out
Can somebody explain to me why this is “Canadian Server, run by Canadians”… but located in the Netherlands?
Edit: thanks for the informative responses!
@[email protected] @[email protected] i’m guessing this is because it’s now using cloudflare?
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/.
Here from Reddit, and this is looking like a great new space. Cheers!
