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!

  • bgb_ca@lemmy.caEnglish
    5·
    2 years 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.

  • Sigmatics@lemmy.caEnglish
    4·
    2 years 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.

  • MzPhalange@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

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

  • Burstar@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

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

    Edit: thanks for the informative responses!

      • Shadow@lemmy.caMEnglish
        6·
        2 years 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/.

  • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    2 years 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.

  • Bo7a@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    2 years 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!

  • Uncle@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    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

  • Sirquacksalot@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    2 years 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.

  • venuswasaflytrap@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    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.

      • CrimsonFlash@lemmy.caEnglish
        0·
        2 years ago

        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.)

        • Ashley@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          2 years 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.

  • blitzen@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    2 years 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.

  • colonelpanik@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • VioletteRei@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Nice to meet you all! Still getting used to the website, I have some instances who work always great, and others working meh, but hey, I think a lot of tweaks will have to be made because we are a lot to migrate here lol

  • dylaner@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    It’s nice to be here! I’ve been meaning to check this place out for a while, and suddenly there’s much more activity, so now seems like a good time :)

    Is there a Patreon page or something where we can send donations for lemmy.ca in particular? I’d love to be sure you have what you need to keep this all running.