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Lemmy.ca's Main Community

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Welcome to the lemmy.ca/c/main community!

All new users on lemmy.ca are automatically subscribed to this community, so this is the place to read announcements, make suggestions, and chat about the goings-on of lemmy.ca.

For support requests specific to lemmy.ca, you can use [email protected].


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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Hello all! Posting from Mlem on iOS 17!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

how is it? i'm on android but the screenshots look pretty nice!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Reminds me a lot of Apollo (it being killed by Reddit is why I am no longer going to use Reddit). There's quite a bit of features lacking at the moment, but it is really good knowing that it is in early stages of development. Would love to contribute to its code.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

Like if I view [email protected] through lemmy.ca, it shows no posts.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

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!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Greetings ~~shitlords~~, fellow Canadians.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Being Canadian is, like, a state of mind, eh. Welcome

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wouldn't it be a province of mind? :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Aaaaeeeeyyyyy-ooohhhhh!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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!

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