Lemmy.ca's Main Community

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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 :)

Hello there. I've been dabbling a bit on sites to escape reddit and that retard spez. I am currently trying this, said it, scored and poal. I'm hoping I can find a new place to enjoy. My main concern is the hobby subs may not compare well to those I used on reddit.

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?

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

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 Lemmians... Lemmites? Lemmons?

What's the preferred nomenclature for the denizens of this site?

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.

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.

Hi! Thank you and hi everybody :) I just opened account here and seems really good and better than I though it was due bad feedback of some people. Maybe Reddit has signed their gradually death sentence with the APIpocalypse. Using currently Jerboa and tried Lemmur before. Both are good but the design and intuitive UI I rather Jerboa. But I don't receive notifications I think :(

Somebody know why? Some bugs writing comments also, maybe due the high traffic for the huge exodus from Reddit or Jerboa bug? I could connect with Kbin Social or Mastodon also since here? How? Thank you!

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.

In the rules it says no porn allowed, does that also mean no viewing/commenting under porn? What if you post porn to another instance?

It's not the content I came here to post, but I think the answer will help me understand better how this works as the inter-operability is a bit confusing. As in, is the content posted to another instance hosted there or on this one (due to my account being here), and do I follow their rules, these rules, or both?

Fediverse fan here, joining here as there's no Irish lemmy that I could find. I'll be looking for Music/Guitar/Piano communities, and software/programming type groups.