Lemmy.ca's Main Community

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!

I had Jerboa installed on my phone for the last month or so. The Reddit issues finally got my butt in gear. I've gotten into open source software and self hosting in the past year and while I manage Windows environments in my professional life I moved to Linux in my personal environment. Really helps separate work/home life and I've learned a ton of new stuff which I love. Happy to be a part of the fediverse!

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 👋🏻

Another Western Canadian reddit refugee here. I still can't decide if I consider myself Albertan or British Columbian. I've spent about an equal amount of my life in each province. Alberta does have the lower drinking age and less taxes so it might edge out the competition.

Hello, Lemmy community! Greetings from BC.

I've been a reddit user for a lot of years, and have been looking for an alternative for a while now. Maybe this is it? I like things that are free, open-source, distributed, federated, etc. I want to give my energy to this kind of community, not something run by a corporation.

Hello from Ottawa , the 613. Can anyone point me to url for the history of the Lemmy site, perhaps even the backstory of Lemmy.ca ? I didn't check into Reddit back in 2015. I am interested. I was led here by a reddit moderator in the electronics industry.

Edit2 I found Michaels intro post and the ten tutorial inks and I will start there

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 everybody! Nice to meet you all. :D I'm over in Ottawa, and I'm completely new to Lemmy (immigrating from Reddit), so I hope I can learn the culture of this place okay!

First thing's first: I'm going to figure out how to navigate this place, and then I'm going to start talking to folks. Wish me luck (or wish me a For Redditors help guide). :P

Edit: This is probably going to make the OG Lemmings (Lemmites?) cry, but I think this place makes easier sense if I go at it like:

• Instance = subreddit
• Community = post flair

Because each instance is its own website with its own admin, and each community is a group within that instance. I can join a community to chat about whatever the community's about, but if I want to go to the communities in a different instance, it's like going to a different subreddit; I can't just find it by trying to 'filter' the communities by their 'flair' since that community isn't 'here'. It's at a completely different subreddit/instance/website. :)

BC here, yet another reddit refugee. New to the fediverse and still trying to figure it out.

Redditor of 12 years chiming in from BC :P

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

Love Sci fi, fishing, minesweeper and astronomy.

With reddit going south with their API change (it seems), it's nice to have a new place to chat, discuss and get informed. Hopefully the disinformation will be kept to a minimum!

I randomly found an incredibly helpful post by @tezoatlipoca over on a lemmy.ml thread about how we're going to pay for "all this". It was there I saw that lemmy.ca existed so when it was time to register, I knew exactly where to go. Thanks again, mate.

Greetings all. Like many here, I'm a Reddit refugee and happy to find a new community. My interests include video games, computers, travel and books.

Thank you for the warm welcome!

I’m really liking how Lemmy is shaping up. Once a quality android & iOS app is developed I could see it being a complete Reddit replacement

Hello all! Posting from Mlem on iOS 17!

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.

Thanks for the welcome! I am from Sask originally, but currently residing in STILL FLIPPING SNOWY Nunavut!

No, I'm not bitter. Not at all. Nope. Too cold to be bitter.

Hello from Ontario! Too bad we could not sign up with our existing Mastodon user account (is that even possible?).

Hey there, is there anything I can do about a single community dominating my “hot” sorting in the subscribed homepage?

My subscribed communities are a mix of very small and very large communities, but when I view my subscribed feed it’s almost exclusively the largest ones, with the same posts dominating for several days. This effectively makes the subscribed page useless for me.

Is there no way to see a variety of communities like I would with the Reddit algorithm? Thanks!

Glad to be here. I am still trying to comprehend how all these different servers/instances work but lemmy should hopefully be more resilient from a takeover a la twitter (never had a twitter account fortunately) or an implosion from above a la reddit.

Sorry for the dumb question, but how do I interact with all the other servers/instance (for example beehaw.org or lemmy.ml, etc.) do i use the same login and password as the lemmy.ca?

Hey everyone! I'm from Ottawa. Refugee from Reddit, looking forward to exploring Lemmy and the fediverse generally.

Thank you for all your hard work @smorks@lemmy.ca and @crb@lemmy.ca !

hello chat. im just the average reddit refugee. im excited to see how reddit messes up even further

Thank you for the welcome and hello everyone. All the major platforms have censored my free speech so now I'm spreading the word to Lemmy users in the great state of CA!

One time a young man, very big man and obviously from CA, came up to me with tears in his eyes and he told me "sir, you are so incredibly stable, I was about to lose my grip on reality until I found out about how incredibly stable you are and I thought 'if he's stable, I'll be stable too'" and he was for the rest of his days people. My stability did that. Who knows what he might've done, maybe nothing but probably something, we don't know, but if you put me in prison, the people who need my stability, they're wonderful special people but they might do some bad things. Sad!

[Hello, I'm in St. John's where it's currently 6 degrees with a light drizzle.]

Another Reddit Refugee here! I'm looking forward to learning about this new platform. Exciting!

Hi, another Reddit refugee here from Vancouver Island! I've had some experience with federated software through Mastodon, but I like Reddit-style forums better.

My life revolves around finding cool rocks, polishing those cool rocks into neat little shapes, then making silver jewelry out of them. Also DIY/home decorating, plant-based cooking, and playing the same old video games over and over.

As someone who used to use FIDONet in the 90s, I have to say that I feel right at home in the Fediverse :)

From Digg, to Reddit to here!

Hello from Vancouver! Like many others I'm a Reddit refugee. My interests include AI, data science, homemade vegan ice cream, Linux, tech, Linux gaming, and Pathfinder 2e.