Lemmy.ca's Main Community

Hello from beautiful BC! I am also transitioning to this platform from Reddit. My interests include book binding, video games, sobriety/recovery, reading, hockey, and Star Wars.

Hello from Hamilton!

Hello everyone,

This is my first post on Lemmy. I haven't posted on social media since 2020 due to my fear of engagement algorithms.

So far, I really like it. The interface is clean, and it's easy to use.

Cheers

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

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.

Thanks to the host!

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.

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 :)

Glad to be here! I went ahead and made a couple of communities to mirror Reddit's KingstonOntario. I prefer the underscore since there's no capitalization, but I made another without the underscore just to avoid someone else making it and splitting the community. Hopefully we can get more posts and ones of higher quality than over on the ol' Reddit. I've been using Reddit since before Digg thought it would be a good idea to do exactly what Reddit is now doing... History repeats itself until we learn I guess!

Can somebody explain to me why this is "Canadian Server, run by Canadians"... but located in the Netherlands?

Edit: thanks for the informative responses!

Can someone explain a little bit about how federation works? Can I log into other Lemmy servers using my lemmy.ca login? Also can I create communities that exist across multiple servers?

Thanks for the welcome! Lemmy sure is a bit different, but a distributed approach feels like the right way. I guess you could call me a digg and a reddit refugee since I'm pretty much done with both of those.

I'm an old tech dude these days, I guess. But I know a good bit of new tech too.

Any reason why my front page is mostly posts from a week ago, regardless of whether i set it to "Hot" or "Active"?

Hello! And thank you for hosting!

I'm still finding my way around and I've kind of figured out the remote subscribing thing...but there are some communities that I cannot see in the search despite knowing that they are there (if I visit the other instance directly). I've seen posts where people say to just do a search for that community and it will get indexed on your instance, but it doesn't seem to be working for me.

For example: /c/animals@beehaw.org is a valid community over on beehaw, but I can't subscribe to it by searching it here (or by going to the extended URL myself) and despite having tried several times to do the search, it just isn't indexing for me to be able to subscribe to it.

EDIT: I have now been able to get it added. Beehaw was probably just overwhelmed this morning. Thanks all for the help.

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.

Good to be here! Thanks for setting it up!