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Lemmy.ca's Main Community

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Welcome to lemmy.ca's c/main!

Since everyone on lemmy.ca gets subscribed here, this is the place to chat about the goings on at lemmy.ca, support-type items, suggestions, etc.

Announcements can be found at https://lemmy.ca/c/meta

For support related to this instance, use https://lemmy.ca/c/lemmy_ca_support

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by smorks@lemmy.ca to c/main@lemmy.ca
 

There has been a steady trickle of new users here today, and in the past little while, mostly due to the bad decisions that reddit is currently making.

Anyways, welcome! Feel free to look around, and if you have any questions about anything lemmy related, feel free to ask!

Also, if you feel up to it, introduce yourself in the comments below!

edit: Here's a nice getting started guide for lemmy: https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2023/06/11/lemmy-migration-find-subreddits-communities/

i should have added it here a while ago!

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[–] venuswasaflytrap@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ashley@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It’s like email but Reddit style

[–] CrimsonFlash@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That makes way more sense!

The only roadblock I see is how difficult it is to follow communities outside your main instance. It would be nice if there was a log-in-as option so you can easily subscribe if you come across a page that isn't a part of your instance. Right now you have to either search it on your main, or copy the url over (which I've seen doesn't work all the time, but could be because of server load.)

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Mastodon makes it easy to follow someone on a different instance, so I expect it's only a matter of time that Lemmy adds that functionality (especially now with the influx of new users)

[–] venuswasaflytrap@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I read that before, but I didn't really understand what that meant.

[–] ashley@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Email is federated as well. You sign up to a server (ex. Gmail.com), then you use and interact only with gmail.com, but you can then tell gmail to send an email to another server such as outlook, and it’s the same for their users.

Difference being the content is public here, whereas email isn’t, and Lemmy also uses ActivityPub which is a standard to forward messages between servers.

[–] UncleBadTouch@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] BruceDoh@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] UncleBadTouch@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

so friggin cute! i miss having chickens. no more free breakfast!

[–] Sirquacksalot@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Bo7a@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

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!

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Hello everyone. It's nice to meet everyone, it's so warm here. You may call me Lenny since it's the real nickname of mine people have started referring to me as. I'm a 23-year-old woman from Vermont who works for a reporting place (sort of) and likes art and cryptography. I'm on both Lemmy and Reddit but Lemmy has truly grown on me. Thanks for having me here, and feel free to ask questions.

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Sigmatics@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Burstar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

Edit: thanks for the informative responses!

[–] smorks@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@TruckBC@lemmy.ca @Shadow@lemmy.ca i'm guessing this is because it's now using cloudflare?

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Correct! The server running this and all data is stored in Canada.

Here's a blurb from a doc I'm working on:

Lemmy.ca is hosted in Canada at OVH in Beauharnois, QC with all data on a dedicated server. Backups are PGP encrypted and pushed to the OVH backup service, however these will be moved off-site in the near future.

We use Cloudflare as a security and performance layer in front of the server. They accept the traffic for Lemmy.ca through a worldwide network of ingestion points, scrub it of abusive traffic, cache the images, and pass it through an encrypted tunnel to our server. This means they can see in plain text the data sent between us including your credentials, posts, comments and images. You can read more about their policies at https://www.cloudflare.com/trust-hub/.

[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Hey again, been a while since I posted in this thread! Was hoping to clarify a bit on the Lemmy.ca rules if I could. I have two questions:

  1. What is the stance on NSFL/gore content? Allowed, discouraged, banned?
  2. We have the rule "No porn." This sounds simple, but what is classified as porn. Is all nudity porn? Is nudity alright in an artistic context such as the Statue of David? What about a medical/injury setting, or a non-pornographic setting such as "public freakout" videos?

I ask these questions as I moderate !roadcam which could have both of these sorts of content posted to it, if not often. I am unsure if I want to ban that content outright, but it would be handy to know the instance rules first.

[–] smorks@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry for the delay, I talked this over with the other admins, and here's what we decided:

  1. NSFL/gore content is not allowed.
  2. That's a tough one. Artistic should be fine. Medical/injury should also be fine, as long as it's not wading into NSFL/gore stuff.

Hope that helps!

[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not at all, it's a tough question. Thank you so much for the answers, I will revise my community's rules to stay in line with that then. :)

[–] Gleddified@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

Manitoba!

[–] smorks@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago
[–] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] w111@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] jadero@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

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!

[–] Doubleohdonut@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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 😁

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Hello from Eastern Ontario. I am a Reddit Refugee and this is my first day on Lemmy. I'm happy to make lemmy.ca my home. I'm interested in maple syrup making, microcontrollers and using them to make maple syrup, and my first computer was a Commodore 64 and I recently completed a SixtyClone 250466 Commodore 64 clone. I'm a small farmer, amateur welder, and I am an information security sales engineer by day. I've created three communities and hope to contribute to Lemmy. If you think I might be interested in a community please point me in the right direction.

[–] bgb_ca@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] daychilde@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 :)

[–] glandrid@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Being Canadian is, like, a state of mind, eh. Welcome

[–] daychilde@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Wouldn't it be a province of mind? :)

[–] kiwiheretic@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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?

[–] thayer@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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).

[–] RandomDude@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Thanks for making this Canadian instance :) I first created my account on Lemmy.ml, but also made one here since I am Canadian. Looking forward to seeing Lemmy grow as a whole, and see more Canadians join the Fediverise :)

For anyone interested, I've made a community for posting PC hardware/accessory sales (r/bapcsalescanada). Feel free to join and contribute. And if you know how to create an RSS feed, also let me know!

[–] smorks@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

there should be an icon that will give you a link to the rss feed:

[–] MarkG_108@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One thing I find confusing is the notification bell icon. I notice that even if I check it, it still registers the same number of notifications that it had done previously. This number never seems to go down. What's with that?

[–] smorks@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

you have to manually mark them as "read", unless you're replying. don't think there's a way to change that currently?

[–] n_emoo@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] smorks@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

i'm the admin. i'm a software developer, living in Winnipeg, MB. I spend a lot of time watching my son play baseball in the spring/summer, own a dog that sometimes acts like a cat.

Not sure what makes this server different from others? I will do my best to make this place a safe, welcoming space for all. Will probably need some help along the way as we grow.

It's currently run on a VPS on lunanode, a canadian provider. I'm currently self funding it, but plan on accepting donations to help run it as well.

[–] CautiousYellow@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 year ago

I just signed up tonight. I tried to log in about an hour after signing up, and it worked. Now I have to see whether I can find a community that lives elsewhere on lemmy.

[–] mintiefresh@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Hello everyone, new to Lemmy!

I had randomly picked up Lemmy.world but found Lemmy.ca along the way.

Was hoping to sign up here but it seems to be having issues. Hopefully that gets resolved over the next few days and I can land over here with y'all.

If not, I guess it doesn't really matter. I can just sub around here too.

Fediverse is cool :)