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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!
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.
Not all of us are stupid. Just a majority. No more than 3/4. Maybe. On a really good day.
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.
Is this grafana public? I'd like to check for jlai.lu, we also had a recent influx of users.
No, I want to start exposing a grafana instance but for now I'm keeping this internal since it hits our live postgres.
The query if you want it is:
SELECT
DATE(published AT TIME ZONE 'UTC') AS date,
COUNT(*) FILTER (WHERE instance_id IN (SELECT id FROM instance WHERE domain = 'lemmy.ca')) AS lemmy_ca,
COUNT(*) FILTER (WHERE instance_id IN (SELECT id FROM instance WHERE domain = 'sh.itjust.works')) AS sh_itjust_works,
COUNT(*) FILTER (WHERE instance_id IN (SELECT id FROM instance WHERE domain = 'lemmy.world')) AS lemmy_world,
COUNT(*) FILTER (WHERE instance_id IN (SELECT id FROM instance WHERE domain = 'lemmy.dbzer0.com')) AS dbzer0,
COUNT(*) FILTER (WHERE instance_id IN (SELECT id FROM instance WHERE domain = 'jlai.lu')) AS jlai_lu,
count(*) as all_lemmy
FROM person
GROUP BY 1
ORDER BY 1;
Or here's your instance overlayed with us to provide a comparison:
Nice, thank you!
A suggestion from someone who frequently deals with observability infrastructure: it's a good idea to set up a postgres exporter and record your data as Prometheus metrics, that way querying the metrics does not hit any of the production stack.
Prometheus is the goat, and is built into a surprisingly large amount of FOSS service tools. JupyterHub for example includes Prometheus metrics out of the box
Eh. Calling it the goat is excessive. I'm planning to go victoriametrics instead.
Yes the exporter format is common and widely supported though, which is nice.
I'm not on lemmy.ca but as a moose I appreciate this post and my fellow Canadians π¨π¦π«
A moose once bit my sister
It means heβs playful.
She was making fun of the size of my antlers.
It was such a rough rut!
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.
Thank you for informing me as that brings a smile to my face.
A Facebook exodus! 
Canadian Friendica will be here soon!
It's URL is friendi.ca!
former r/onguardforthee fan here ... I've been on Lemmy.ca now for over a year ... happy to see others are hopping on board and jumping off the burning train wreck
ADDITION TO MY ORIGINAL .... one thing we current users of Lemmy should point out to any new users that are joining Lemmy either here at Lemmy.ca or any other fediverse instance is to REMIND EVERYONE TO DONATE TO AND SUPPORT THE INSTANCE THEY ARE ON. It's great that all this stuff is free for us to use but there are people here who work to develop, maintain and upgrade the source software and there are groups of people who maintain and manage the instances that we all use. We can't expect all these people to work for free. Many of them may not mind working for free and they might even enjoy it but there will come times when they either can't do it any more or they just run out of money, resources and time and energy to manage things as they grow more and more popular. No one complains when things are working but everyone will scream and shout as soon as their instance fails for one reason or another. Everyone or as many people as possible should find a bit of money to support their instance or the developers. Even if everyone gave a dollar, that would add up to thousands. If we keep these instances and the people that work and maintain all this well funded then we can all be safe and secure from any corporate rot that might creep into our communities.
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.
Now that you spell out these numbers, probably not 100x. π
Seize the memes of production!
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.
Wait you mean .ca is Canada and not California??
I've known this for almost as long as I've been on lemmy... but I still read it as lemmy California at first.
Lemmy is love. Welcome everyone :)
Weβre bunch of fluffy taneggs!
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.
Please. That's one of the few reasons I go to Reddit, getting some of that maple memes.
Welcome fellow canucks!
I look forward to the communities you create and contribute to!
Update 2: 9.3k users has been hit! It keeps going!
Welcome all , lets keep it going . Also thanks for the super admin we got here .
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
Good day, eh!
Congrats
Weβre going for the stars!
That's awesome
All the new people are pretty cute!