Lemmy.ca's Main Community

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.

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

New to lemmy as a previous redditor. I'm having a hell of a time trying to subscribe to other server's communities. For instance, if I search [email protected] on lemmy.ca, nothing is found, having the same issue with [email protected]. How do I subscribe to these communities from a lemmy.ca account? Thanks in advance for any help!

Hello from nw pa. Enjoying the smoke

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

Another Reddit refugee here. Just signed up and am looking around and figuring it all out.

I see there's a significant number of some of the ~~subreddits~~ communities that I frequented that don't seem to exist here yet. So, naturally, I am motivated to create some of these.

Where and how do I announce to lemmy.ca and to other servers that a new community has been created? Is there a protocol for this, and a community for such announcements?

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

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.

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

Thank you for having me!

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)!

There seems to be an issue with the signup process on lemmy.ca. I've been trying to signup for a while today but the Sign Up button just keeps spinning when I click it. I've tried numerous things to try to fix it and nothing seems to work. Signed up on a different server so I could report the issue.

Heyo! Nice to be here, excited for Lemmy so far. Thanks for hosting!

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 :)

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?

Hello from Ontario. Using Jerboa.

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

Redditor of 11 years chiming in from BC.

Hello fellow Canucks! Slowly getting used to how this all works and gotta admit, it's kind of neat so far! Looking forward to trading my crippling reddit addiction for a crippling Lemmy addiction.

Hello from Hamilton!

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.

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?

Calgarian living in Shanghai here. Really disappointed in the direction that reddit is heading, so may be looking for a new home. Hoping to find discussions about hockey, cycling, Android, and scifi / Star Trek which were my favourite things to talk about on reddit.

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/[email protected] 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.

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.

Aloha. I see that "mamot.fr" is a linked instance here. Can I subscribe here, to something like mamot.fr/@pluralistic?

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

Thanks for having a place for us Canucks to congregate eh!

I have a background in IT/Networking/Infrastructure, so if you need a hand or a brain to pick for running this place, just drop me a DM! Also if you need donations to cover costs, best to get OpenCollective/Patreon going on sooner rather than later.