It’s actually possible to create local only communities, which would restrict access to users on lemmy.ca. While that doesn’t completely do what you’re looking for since Canadians on other instances won’t be able to see it, it might help somewhat?

Believe me I want the same thing, and I’d imagine most people here want the same. The solution is to post more of what you want to see so others can learn from it. There’s no entity here deciding what content people post

I didn’t know about the IBM plant, and if you want to make a post about it in !canada@lemmy.ca or some other community, I think it would be cool for more people to know about it

I agree that this is happening. While we should be aware of what they’re up to when it directly affects us, we could use more Canada specific content

I try to share what I can, feel free to share some as well :) If you have a website that you recommend, I can see if I can share more from there

The format of the post also looked similar to spam posts at first glance. A lot of them are pushing AI things

This does happen with comments sometimes. I go into a post and someone has already eloquently said what I would have said (often better than I would have). So I upvote it and move along

Good suggestion, thanks!

These are great, thank you! I can link them in this post as well as in our weekly threads.

Ah great, I need to fix the formatting and schedule them out again.

edit: I made some changes and I’ll schedule out the rest based on feedback. How does this look?

I think we can find a way to work that in to the updated rules for the community. I’ll copy this into our notes for where we’re working on those

We might need that in the future, but for now I think we have enough moderators to users to deal with brigading and bad faith arguments when it happens. So far users have been excellent about reporting it to us

I also don’t love doing blanket bans based on participation alone. Sometimes people comment on content to call it out, and without following the thread carefully and being familiar with the topic, it’s hard to tell who’s arguing for what. That being said, if it’s clear that someone is a problem in other communities, I think it makes sense for mods or admins to preemptively ban them.

That’s fair, can you link some of the posts? You can also DM me, or @admin@lemmy.ca

There isn’t much brigading since it gets dealt with, but it’s not impossible

You can find our posts about this here

• Our nomination thread
• Our voting thread, which also had a list of all songs nominated for Canada
• The three winning nominations that we submitted to the contest

Sorry about that, I’m thinking next time we’ll end the nominations much earlier and leave the voting up longer.

Since lemmy.ca is federated, you can see content from everywhere. However you also have a lot of control over your feed, and you can either block communities you don’t like or (my preference) primarily use the ‘subscribed’ feed and only subscribe to the content you want to see.

This guide page might help: https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/detailed-overview

If you look on !canada@lemmy.ca, we maintain a pinned post with a list of Canadian communities to subscribe to

For sure!

For now I can say that all your songs got points, and I think one of yours was in 4th place :)

They’re from Niagara Falls Ontario!

Isabelle Rezazadeh (born 28 March 1995), who is known by her stage name Rezz (stylized in all caps), is a Ukrainian–Canadian DJ and record producer from Niagara Falls, Ontario.

I’ve pinned your post in the community, consider it the event discussion post :)

I had to check that one earlier as well, thanks for looking in to it :))

There were a few edge cases, mostly around release dates but also artists that moved around through their careers

This is what I went off of when I decided to include the nomination

https://519magazine.com/palaye-royale-a-little-bit-american-a-little-bit-canadian-100-kick-ass/

Oh ok that is odd, thank you for bringing that up

I’ll test that some more before we run another survey on here