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They must be those cool folks from r/onguardforthee and r/fredericton! Lets get off those american Reddit servers eh!
Update: thereβs a thread on r/buycanadian with 93 upvotes, promoting the platform! Open the floodgates baby!
I think I found Lemmy from r/EhBuddyHoser, sweet find!
May I ask which post has lead you here?
Itβs a new world for me too. Thanks for having me.
I challenge every newbies to create 1-3 posts over the first 72 h here : what do you enjoy in social media usually? It doesnβt have to be perfectly new if itβs new on Lemmy: your favourite Reddit group isnβt represented here or silent for a while : show us a glimpse of what you like and see how much engagement you receive.
Hi! If you need reliable canadian hosting for lemmy.ca let me know. I am a co-founder of a Canadian Cloud and I will be happy to provide the infra for free. We are happy to help canada going out of American Corporation. If you are interested, let me know!
Can I pay you in maple syrup?
That's almost more stable than the canadian dollars these days, I might consider ;)
Congrats. Canada needs to build its own social media infrastructure.
They should also build a wall so our stupid stays south of their sovereign border.
Just joined to get away from Reddit - Iβm pleasantly surprised with how active it seems here despite the much smaller community! This is exciting!
We like to party too!
Question for you: are pretty much all of the users Canadian or in Canada? Is it possible to tell?
I did some playing around with grafana. This data is all just number of signups per day, grouped by instance.
Here you can see our recent spike in users compared to normal:
Adding in some other large instances we all got an increase in traffic, but ours seems to be more sustained:
And for completeness, compared to all of lemmy (as visible by lemmy.ca, so only things we federate with):
Reddit's announced some more changes but I suspect the whole tariff situation is pushing Canadians extra hard.
I'm not on lemmy.ca but as a moose I appreciate this post and my fellow Canadians π¨π¦π«
There's some Facebook 'buy Canadian' groups with over half a million people in - this server occasionally comes up there too when people are looking for Canadian hosted discussion sites to ditch big American tech like reddit or Facebook groups.
Also there's a Quebec friendica instance called https://onjase.quebec/
They have 29 users and an uptime of 95%
Thank you for informing me as that brings a smile to my face.
Update: we just hit 9.2k! Keep up the surge folks! Keep Shadow busy tonight!
Doesn't the new server support at least 10x-100x the current capacity? I think it was a huge machine compared to the old one. I guess storage is separate.
Thatβs a lot of potential wiggle room. 92k to 920k potential registered users while currently LW has 174k, thatβs one crazy hardware upgrade. The servers will become cheaper to run in the future as we put to use our economies of scale.
There isnβt room for multiple social media in my life and i will try with only Lemmy for a few months. I did came from r/BuyCanadian with curiosity more than the US boycott in mind. I plead guilty!
I switched to Lemmy.ca with the first wave and have found zero reasons to go back to Reddit since.
There are nifty migration tools that help you find Lemmy equivalent communities for the subreddits you were subscribed to.
Its a great time to join. I think many of us have been lurkers in reddit and now with the tides of change we need to also make Lemmy active, especially the Canadian sites
Wait you mean .ca is Canada and not California??
California would be .ca.us but nearly no one uses .us addresses, a few states point their .us domain at their .com domain
Ooo, there's a Canadian Rexit happening? Cool! I keep my Reddit usage much more focused on niche hobby communities now, and there's zero talk of Reddit politics on those yet, sadly.
Oh Canada, we must come together to protect our country from the insane monsters south of our border.
Do we? Because this feels to me like a ruling class problem. Labour class is a lot less affected, and our efforts are mostly helping the exact same set of oligarchs who are working both sides of the border.
Nope, here for a break from the drama on r/ehbuddyhoser.
Should probably find a place to cross post some of their memes here now that I think of it. The Bay of Nova Scotia was gold.
I was going to post my standard Tankie Triad warning for new users, but looks like lemmy.ca defed's from the entire Triad already LMAO
...I need to move to Canada....
Iβll still learning how to use it and I donβt know what the lemmys are or how the communities work but Iβm happy Iβm not supporting Reddit eh
