They must be those cool folks from r/onguardforthee and r/fredericton! Lets get off those american Reddit servers eh!
Update: there’s a thread on r/buycanadian with 93 upvotes, promoting the platform! Open the floodgates baby!
I think I found Lemmy from r/EhBuddyHoser, sweet find!
May I ask which post has lead you here?
Good day, eh!
Struth, mate!
…wait
It’s a new world for me too. Thanks for having me.
I challenge every newbies to create 1-3 posts over the first 72 h here : what do you enjoy in social media usually? It doesn’t have to be perfectly new if it’s new on Lemmy: your favourite Reddit group isn’t represented here or silent for a while : show us a glimpse of what you like and see how much engagement you receive.
Hi! If you need reliable canadian hosting for lemmy.ca let me know. I am a co-founder of a Canadian Cloud and I will be happy to provide the infra for free. We are happy to help canada going out of American Corporation. If you are interested, let me know!
Let’s talk =)
Let the collaborations begin ;)
Let us know if you get this setup!
Can I pay you in maple syrup?
That’s almost more stable than the canadian dollars these days, I might consider ;)
Supplied from beautiful Quebec!
Quebec really is beautiful. Haven’t been in ages, would love to go back one day.
There’s great fishing in Quebec.
And cheese!
rare hockey cards only, chum
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.
Just joined to get away from Reddit - I’m pleasantly surprised with how active it seems here despite the much smaller community! This is exciting!
We like to party too!
Question for you: are pretty much all of the users Canadian or in Canada? Is it possible to tell?
Users that you see with an email-like suffix to their name are using different websites and are less likely to be Camadian (though, as you know/ we are everywhere). Users without the suffix (if your client omits local addressing) are on lemmy.ca and are much more likely to be Canadian.
I would assume most users are Canadian as they would have more related interests here.
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.
Also there’s a Quebec friendica instance called https://onjase.quebec/
They have 29 users and an uptime of 95%
Thank you for informing me as that brings a smile to my face.
Seize the memes of production!
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.
That’s a lot of potential wiggle room. 92k to 920k potential registered users while currently LW has 174k, that’s 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. 😂
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.
There isn’t room for multiple social media in my life and i will try with only Lemmy for a few months. I did came from r/BuyCanadian with curiosity more than the US boycott in mind. I plead guilty!
I switched to Lemmy.ca with the first wave and have found zero reasons to go back to Reddit since.
There are nifty migration tools that help you find Lemmy equivalent communities for the subreddits you were subscribed to.
Likewise, but I still go to reddit via searches if the other results aren’t helping me out. At this point it’s more an act of desperation than desire, though.
No need to feel guilty about doing the right thing.
And there’s not an endless stream of content on lemmy, so it doesn’t eat up too much time.
Nice so they were talking about us there!
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.
Lemmy is love. Welcome everyone :)
We’re bunch of fluffy taneggs!
Oh Canada, we must come together to protect our country from the insane monsters south of our border.
Do we? Because this feels to me like a ruling class problem. Labour class is a lot less affected, and our efforts are mostly helping the exact same set of oligarchs who are working both sides of the border.
The insane monsters in canada too. Cough pp Cough danielle Smith Cough cough
It’s, “O Canada,” which means something very different than, “Oh, Canada.”
Why did I never notice that before?
You’re probably just accustomed to the French, “Ô Canada!”
What? But O and Oh sound the same either way. Hmm.
And a new AO3 tag is born…
