Lemmy.ca's Main Community

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.

My first post, and hopefully the picture i attached works. This is Loki, my 27 year old macaw, one of 2 rainbow chickens i have

Hello from the forests of Quebec. I'm a huge fan of decentralization and open source tools. I will be hanging around here and watching reddit implode from afar. I was one of the digg exodus crowd, so I know that there is no way I can live without a link aggregator and discussion platform, lemmy seems like an instant win to me!

Hey fellow (mostly) Canadians! Reddit Refugee of 13 years, this is my first Lemmy experience. I originally made a Lemmy.world account, but moved here as I felt more comfortable having the server hosted in Canada for data integrity/security.

Seems like a neat place, the distributed/"federated" stuff was a bit confusing at first, but seems neat. I guess we'll see how big the migration from Reddit to here is.

Hello fellow humans. I’m actually from a different CA, California. But I’m a believer that you should choose an instance based upon the administration not on topic, and this one feels much more in line with my sensibilities than the other large ones. Sorry to stereotype, but the conversations feel kinder here than elsewhere (even by the already nice standards of lemmy instances overall.)

I don’t much like sharing personal type information online, so I hope you’ll forgive my brevity. I don’t work in tech, but have had a lifelong interest in it so I feel right at home here at the ground floor of a new community.

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?

Hello from Canada's best and most important and relevant province!

Manitoba!

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!

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 :)

Vancouver Island here. Happy to see a woodworking community getting going here already, and hoping to see a bigger rock climbing community on lemmy in the future. Thanks for hosting!

Fifteen-year veteran of reddit checking in. So glad to be a part of this societal shift, and excited to see where we go from here!

If anyone else is missing an old-reddit/digg style UI on the desktop, I've published Rediggit for Lemmy. It's very much a work-in-progress, but it should scratch that immediate itch for more legroom. Currently for light theme only, but more coming (and feel free to hack away and shape my mess into something even better).

Checking in from Nova Scotia! Fellow Rexxiter (?) looking for a new location to plant roots with a good community. Primary interests are in automotive, woodworking, cycling, and electronics.

Happy to be here with you all!

I'm pleasantly surprised there are so many people here already. The experience has been a lot better than I expected. The UI is nice and lean. It was super easy to subscribe to communities from this and other instances. It's really exciting to be a part of something for which the core mission is not shareholder value.

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?

Thanks for the warm welcome! While things are still new, I know it will pick up. I feel like this is my new home after 12 years on reddit

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!

Introducing myself here. I'm a refugee from Reddit. I'm a father, Catholic, lawyer from rural Alberta near Calgary.

I've always been a big fan of open source software and I'm trying to figure out the federated model of social media. I figured this is probably the right place for me to pop into and branch out from here.

Looking forward to eventually replacing Reddit entirely if the Lemmy instances get to that point.

Hey all, I'm an ex-pat living in the UK, Scotland to be precise...er. I'm from Vancouver, and I'm on lemmy.ml, as .ca didn't appear to be an option when I signed up.

I'm a Stone Mason, have a cat who's a bit of a shithead, and I make electronic music as a hobby.

Reddit old-timer from Toronto here. Happy to see how fast the Fediverse is evolving thanks to u/spez. Feels like the internet again.

Greetings from the Wet Coast, fellow Canuckleheads! Another Reddit Refugee. I've had such a great experience with Mastodon, I'm looking at other ways the fediverse and distributed social networks can inform and entertain, while preserving privacy and not selling its users information as product.

Interests include technology, Linux, tabletop RPGs, computer games, science, Indigenous language revitalization, plus whatever might make me curious.

Hello fellow Canucks! Slowly getting used to how this all works and gotta admit, it's kind of neat so far! Looking forward to trading my crippling reddit addiction for a crippling Lemmy addiction.

Hi everyone! I’m another Reddit lurker checking out Lemmy in light of the upcoming changes there. I’m in Ontario near the GTA and looking forward to what the community builds. Thanks for hosting the server!

Hello! Came over from Reddit based on recommendations from Mastodon friends. Looking forward to interact on food, Habs, wine, Canadian politics, and tv shows. My last favourite was Succession. I can't start a new show for fear of being disappointed. What are you watching?

Hi all from Québec city, I came here searching for a new home, since reddit is likely dying, and had been getting less friendly as time went on. I am still finding my way around here. Thanks to everyone who is making this community possible.

Hey all! Came here after the Reddit news like a lot of you. Getting my feet wet around here, but I'm into technology and metal so that's where I'll head out to.

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.

Thanks for having a place for us Canucks to congregate eh!

I have a background in IT/Networking/Infrastructure, so if you need a hand or a brain to pick for running this place, just drop me a DM! Also if you need donations to cover costs, best to get OpenCollective/Patreon going on sooner rather than later.

Hello! Another Reddit refugee here. Saskatoon is home for me. Looking forward to figuring out how Lemmy and the Fediverse differs from what I'm used to.

Hello and thanks for the greetings! Yet another reddit refugee from Canada's east coast. Looking forward to learning the ropes around here and enjoy some comments. Hopefully this site can remain as a refreshing change from other sites.

Good Afternoon My Fellow Canucks (Canadians) and Canadian Lovers Eh!

Like many of you, I have also left Reddit and plan to make my home here. I'm in York Region in Ontario and well have a distributed set of friends all over the place. Lots of love to my brothers and sisters in the surrounding Provinces.

As for me, well I tend to read about technology, play allot of board games, and seem to dabble in Linux land while helping people with techie issues. I'm currently trying to learn the board game "Earth" which at some point will teach at game night.

Hope you all have a great day!

Fediverse fan here, joining here as there's no Irish lemmy that I could find. I'll be looking for Music/Guitar/Piano communities, and software/programming type groups.

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!

Question on the nuance of federation-- is there a reason to spin up a community locally in .ca if a really popular one already exists in another server? Would most people here just sync up to that other server and ignore the local one? I'm thinking we might want to avoid having 500 communities for everything

Coming from a reddit mindset where it was easier because you just had one community to think about

edit: by this I don't mean "can we" but rather what's best practice or what does the existing community tend to default to

Hi. Calgarian checking in. I am happy to find this!

Love Sci fi, fishing, minesweeper and astronomy.

Calgarian living in Shanghai here. Really disappointed in the direction that reddit is heading, so may be looking for a new home. Hoping to find discussions about hockey, cycling, Android, and scifi / Star Trek which were my favourite things to talk about on reddit.

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.

Hi! I just joined as well. I haven’t decided yet whether I give up Reddit or not. I am happy with my move to Mastodon so I figured I try Lemmy as well. I am in Alberta 👋🏻