Lemmy.ca's Main Community

Hello, Lemmy community! Greetings from BC.

I've been a reddit user for a lot of years, and have been looking for an alternative for a while now. Maybe this is it? I like things that are free, open-source, distributed, federated, etc. I want to give my energy to this kind of community, not something run by a corporation.

Hello from Ottawa , the 613. Can anyone point me to url for the history of the Lemmy site, perhaps even the backstory of Lemmy.ca ? I didn't check into Reddit back in 2015. I am interested. I was led here by a reddit moderator in the electronics industry.

Edit2 I found Michaels intro post and the ten tutorial inks and I will start there

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.

Hi. Calgarian checking in. I am happy to find this!

Love Sci fi, fishing, minesweeper and astronomy.

New Brunswick Reddit refuge....

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 all! Posting from Mlem on iOS 17!

Hi! I just joined as well. I haven’t decided yet whether I give up Reddit or not. I am happy with my move to Mastodon so I figured I try Lemmy as well. I am in Alberta 👋🏻

Hi everybody! Nice to meet you all. :D I'm over in Ottawa, and I'm completely new to Lemmy (immigrating from Reddit), so I hope I can learn the culture of this place okay!

First thing's first: I'm going to figure out how to navigate this place, and then I'm going to start talking to folks. Wish me luck (or wish me a For Redditors help guide). :P

Edit: This is probably going to make the OG Lemmings (Lemmites?) cry, but I think this place makes easier sense if I go at it like:

• Instance = subreddit
• Community = post flair

Because each instance is its own website with its own admin, and each community is a group within that instance. I can join a community to chat about whatever the community's about, but if I want to go to the communities in a different instance, it's like going to a different subreddit; I can't just find it by trying to 'filter' the communities by their 'flair' since that community isn't 'here'. It's at a completely different subreddit/instance/website. :)

Question on the nuance of federation-- is there a reason to spin up a community locally in .ca if a really popular one already exists in another server? Would most people here just sync up to that other server and ignore the local one? I'm thinking we might want to avoid having 500 communities for everything

Coming from a reddit mindset where it was easier because you just had one community to think about

edit: by this I don't mean "can we" but rather what's best practice or what does the existing community tend to default to

Just joined today! Going to be fun to find new communities to interact with.

Thank you for making a Canadian instance. I became a citizen this month, and I couldn't be happier about it.

I had Jerboa installed on my phone for the last month or so. The Reddit issues finally got my butt in gear. I've gotten into open source software and self hosting in the past year and while I manage Windows environments in my professional life I moved to Linux in my personal environment. Really helps separate work/home life and I've learned a ton of new stuff which I love. Happy to be a part of the fediverse!

BC here, yet another reddit refugee. New to the fediverse and still trying to figure it out.

Thank-you for the welcome. Looking forward to the non-centralized fun

Redditor of 12 years chiming in from BC :P

Another Western Canadian reddit refugee here. I still can't decide if I consider myself Albertan or British Columbian. I've spent about an equal amount of my life in each province. Alberta does have the lower drinking age and less taxes so it might edge out the competition.

I randomly found an incredibly helpful post by @tezoatlipoca over on a lemmy.ml thread about how we're going to pay for "all this". It was there I saw that lemmy.ca existed so when it was time to register, I knew exactly where to go. Thanks again, mate.

I’m really liking how Lemmy is shaping up. Once a quality android & iOS app is developed I could see it being a complete Reddit replacement

Another Reddit Refugee here! I'm looking forward to learning about this new platform. Exciting!

Is there a way to sort comments? Currently using Jerboa on android

Greetings all. Like many here, I'm a Reddit refugee and happy to find a new community. My interests include video games, computers, travel and books.

Thank you for the warm welcome!

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!

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.

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.

hi everyone! one more from the reddit exodus… currently living in southwestern ON. hoping to join some communities focused on gaming, hiking and beer drinking in the area! if you got any suggestions, let me know!

Hello from nw pa. Enjoying the smoke

Hi, I'm coming over from Mastodon to poke around for a while. Going to fill out a proper bio in the coming days. Looks cool!

Hey everyone! I'm from Ottawa. Refugee from Reddit, looking forward to exploring Lemmy and the fediverse generally.

From Digg, to Reddit to here!

Hi, another Reddit refugee here from Vancouver Island! I've had some experience with federated software through Mastodon, but I like Reddit-style forums better.

My life revolves around finding cool rocks, polishing those cool rocks into neat little shapes, then making silver jewelry out of them. Also DIY/home decorating, plant-based cooking, and playing the same old video games over and over.

Hey all,

Just joined here and Mastodon. Using a web blocker and finding alternatives to break my Reddit habit and leave that place behind. Looking forward to learning new platforms.

Cheers

Happy to be here and I'm excited about having a dedicated Canadian Lemmy instance.

Hey there, is there anything I can do about a single community dominating my “hot” sorting in the subscribed homepage?

My subscribed communities are a mix of very small and very large communities, but when I view my subscribed feed it’s almost exclusively the largest ones, with the same posts dominating for several days. This effectively makes the subscribed page useless for me.

Is there no way to see a variety of communities like I would with the Reddit algorithm? Thanks!

Glad to be here. I am still trying to comprehend how all these different servers/instances work but lemmy should hopefully be more resilient from a takeover a la twitter (never had a twitter account fortunately) or an implosion from above a la reddit.

Sorry for the dumb question, but how do I interact with all the other servers/instance (for example beehaw.org or lemmy.ml, etc.) do i use the same login and password as the lemmy.ca?

hello chat. im just the average reddit refugee. im excited to see how reddit messes up even further