Lemmy.ca's Main Community

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!

Hello all, I'm (yet another) new user from reddit, moving on once again. I'm currently in the Montreal area, and my interests include sewing, gardening and bending computers to my will. Hoping to become more active here than I ever was in reddit, but still working on figuring out this fediverse.

Thanks for this awesome server, it really is so chill to have a place with decent users and without the drama of lemmy.world.

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.

Hi! Can you not downvote comments across all of lemmy or is it a per-instance thing?

I mostly used reddit for soccer (COYS!), gaming, and movies/shows. Probably will be the same here.

Hey neighbours! West coast checking in here.

Like pretty much everyone else in this thread, I've got a nerdy background and I'm jumping ship from Reddit before spez completely implodes the site. Time to grab some poutine and enjoy the fireworks, I guess.

Hi, I'm coming over from Mastodon to poke around for a while. Going to fill out a proper bio in the coming days. Looks cool!

Fairly new here--- I'm trying to sub to some /c/ in .ml but I'm seeing "subscribe pending" and I wasn't seeing that when I was subscribing to communities earlier. Is this a bug or does my sub request need approval from a mod in that community?

Coming from Reddit also, and trying to navigate around here - Happy Canada Day!🍁

I'm not Canadian nor do I live in Canada however I have been following Canadian issues for some time now and am thinking about joining CanadaPolitics. I am from New Zealand (hence my username). I would like to interact with average Canadians to find out what life is like over there. Don't panic, I am not thinking of emigrating there. I understand you have a housing crisis over there at the moment. I watch a lot of Canadian YouTube channels. My interest is more about what life is like over there.

I suppose I should mention I am a long time Reddit user which looks like it is imploding these days.

As I am new here are there any rules I should know about?

Thank you for approving me! And on Canada Day too!

I'm not really understanding how communities work across servers. I was able to create /c/Nintendo, as well as subscribe to /c/Nintendo from lemmy.world. I can comment in either, but when I go to the one from lemmy.world from lemmy.ca I can only see my comment and none of the other comments in that thread.

Howdy folks! Name's Series, and I'm from Ontario. I'm another one of those people who've been heading to Lemmy from Reddit after their rather unwelcome policies as of late. I first heard about it a few months ago, and thought the whole concept of federation was pretty cool, but didn't sign up. Clearly, that was a mistake.

This place seems pretty cool so far. I think I've still gotta get the hang of navigating, but that won't take long. Can't wait to see all the communities that'll pop up.

Hi all, happy to be here. Just joined a few moments ago. Looking forward to discovering how the fediverse works in this context (also a mastodon user)!

Is there anyway for users to hide/dismiss pinned messages? This topic keeps appearing first and the only option seems to be block you, or main. Both of which I don't want to do, I personally just do not need to see this 2 week old pinned message, I know others do though

Hello, I'm a long time lurker from Reddit. Thought I would give this a try, I'm interested. I live in Ontario and work in healthcare IT. I'm still figuring out how Lemmy works. I used to browse Reddit by /r/all and filtered out the communities I didn't want to see.. looks like I can sort of do that by setting the filter at the top to All.

I'm very curious how June 12th is going to shake out. Will Reddit back down? Is this price anchoring? Are they going to lower the cost? There's no way I'm paying a subscription to use reddit, even if it was $1 a month lol

Thank you for having me!

First time on lemmy, first post ever and glad to see we can write with markdown 🙂

Hello from Ontario. Using Jerboa.

Very new to Quebec, really excited about the sudden increase in decentralization. Mostly here for learning about Canada+QC and lurk on linux related chatter :)

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

Redditor of 11 years chiming in from BC.

Sup.

I'm not really new (was on Mastodon.social years and years ago, now self host my own instance, also have been on a different Lemmy instance for about a year).

I've had an account on Reddit for awhile, deleted it, then made a new one, but now thinking of deleting it again. I made an account here in case something happens with my other Lemmy account because that instance is relatively inactive. Also I'm Canadian and I think that part of my identity takes precedence over any other consideration so having a Lemmy.ca profile makes sense.

Hey everyone. One of my primary activities on Reddit was watching videos in one way or another. I used to use RES on desktop and Sync for android, both of those had embedded video players. It's a very tiny feature but I miss it, is there anything like that for Lemmy yet?

Same goes for gifs, I haven't really seen any moving pictures on here lol

Thank you for hosting this instance, it looks pretty good for how young it is! I hope the recent rise in users isn't causing you any major problems :)

Omg did I actually figure out how to join? Yay

Yet another long-time reddit refugee. I'm still learning how lemmy / federated networks work. I look forward to contributing to the community.

I am so pleased to find a suitable alternative to reddit. Before reddit I mostly just visited Slashdot - And I've been going back recently as well. I hope to frequent lemmy + slashdot now.

Just curious to hear from any long-time users what expectations might need to be managed for a new user to lemmy/fediverse.