Lemmy.ca's Main Community

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?

Thanks for the welcome! Lemmy sure is a bit different, but a distributed approach feels like the right way. I guess you could call me a digg and a reddit refugee since I'm pretty much done with both of those.

I'm an old tech dude these days, I guess. But I know a good bit of new tech too.

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.

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

As someone who used to use FIDONet in the 90s, I have to say that I feel right at home in the Fediverse :)

So... still wrapping my head around the whole concept of of federated spaces. By way of comparison, if I go to Reddit, and I search for subreddits, it searches all of reddit, and pulls up the relevant information. If I do a search here, am I searching ONLY the Lemmy.ca server, or does that search ALL of the Lemmy fediverse? If not, how does one do that? CAN one do that? Sorry for the newbie questions. I want to make the move from Twitter/Reddit to Mastodon/Lemmy, but I want to get it so I can indoctrinate my over cautious, set-in-their-ways friends. :)

Greetings ~~shitlords~~, fellow Canadians.

Nice to meet you all! Still getting used to the website, I have some instances who work always great, and others working meh, but hey, I think a lot of tweaks will have to be made because we are a lot to migrate here lol

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

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?

This is fantastic; thank you for hosting this instance. I was more of a Reddit lurker but intend to be more active on this federated platform to help the community build. Having lurked a bit before registering I have to say that I hope the community vibe stays the same as it seems less toxic so far than a lot of the Reddit communities.

It's nice to be here! I've been meaning to check this place out for a while, and suddenly there's much more activity, so now seems like a good time :)

Is there a Patreon page or something where we can send donations for lemmy.ca in particular? I'd love to be sure you have what you need to keep this all running.

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.

Good to be here! Thanks for setting it up!

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/animals@beehaw.org 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.