Lemmy.ca's Main Community

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!

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?

With reddit going south with their API change (it seems), it's nice to have a new place to chat, discuss and get informed. Hopefully the disinformation will be kept to a minimum!

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. 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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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)!

Hello from Hamilton!

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

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?

Hi! Can you not downvote comments across all of lemmy or is it a per-instance thing?

I mostly used reddit for soccer (COYS!), gaming, and movies/shows. Probably will be the same here.

Glad to be here! I went ahead and made a couple of communities to mirror Reddit's KingstonOntario. I prefer the underscore since there's no capitalization, but I made another without the underscore just to avoid someone else making it and splitting the community. Hopefully we can get more posts and ones of higher quality than over on the ol' Reddit. I've been using Reddit since before Digg thought it would be a good idea to do exactly what Reddit is now doing... History repeats itself until we learn I guess!

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.

Thank you for the welcome and hello everyone. All the major platforms have censored my free speech so now I'm spreading the word to Lemmy users in the great state of CA!

One time a young man, very big man and obviously from CA, came up to me with tears in his eyes and he told me "sir, you are so incredibly stable, I was about to lose my grip on reality until I found out about how incredibly stable you are and I thought 'if he's stable, I'll be stable too'" and he was for the rest of his days people. My stability did that. Who knows what he might've done, maybe nothing but probably something, we don't know, but if you put me in prison, the people who need my stability, they're wonderful special people but they might do some bad things. Sad!

[Hello, I'm in St. John's where it's currently 6 degrees with a light drizzle.]

Howdy folks! Name's Series, and I'm from Ontario. I'm another one of those people who've been heading to Lemmy from Reddit after their rather unwelcome policies as of late. I first heard about it a few months ago, and thought the whole concept of federation was pretty cool, but didn't sign up. Clearly, that was a mistake.

This place seems pretty cool so far. I think I've still gotta get the hang of navigating, but that won't take long. Can't wait to see all the communities that'll pop up.

Hello, I'm a long time lurker from Reddit. Thought I would give this a try, I'm interested. I live in Ontario and work in healthcare IT. I'm still figuring out how Lemmy works. I used to browse Reddit by /r/all and filtered out the communities I didn't want to see.. looks like I can sort of do that by setting the filter at the top to All.

I'm very curious how June 12th is going to shake out. Will Reddit back down? Is this price anchoring? Are they going to lower the cost? There's no way I'm paying a subscription to use reddit, even if it was $1 a month lol

Hello from Ontario. Using Jerboa.

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 :)

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.

Thank you for having me!

Here from Reddit, and this is looking like a great new space. Cheers!

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

Redditor of 11 years chiming in from BC.

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