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!
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.
It’s a new world for me too. Thanks for having me.
Seize the memes of production!
that’s good
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!
That’s so great yo, thank you from all fediversians
Also sorry from all USAians with brains 😭 srsly
Can I pay you in maple syrup?
rare hockey cards only, chum
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!
Let’s talk =)
Let the collaborations begin ;)
Let us know if you get this setup!
What caused it?
I heard Reddit was going to charge subscriptions for subreddits.
Also they banned a bunch of porn and lgbt subs.
Wait is there any validity to that first one?
I know the second one happened for like a day and they tried to say ‘Just a bug!’ thinking no one would see past their totally brilliant cover-up.
That first one would be huge. Maybe a hammer for all the nails they been gathering to their coffin!
In a video Ask Me Anything (AMA) session hosted by CEO Steve Huffman following the company’s quarterly earnings report (which went poorly), the founder and exec said Reddit is actively testing ways to make some content require payment to access and plans to roll out a “paid subreddit” feature later this year.
https://gizmodo.com/reddit-ceo-says-paywalls-are-coming-soon-2000564245
Woowww.
I hope it finally kills them. With the economy going to shit and everyone becoming poorer and LESS able to afford subscriptions, what a perfect time to paywall it!
What tha hell? I thought he misspelled change with charge. But no.
Supposedly it will just be new subreddits, at least to start.
Way to stifle growth.
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, only things we federate with):
Is this grafana public? I’d like to check for jlai.lu, we also had a recent influx of users.
No, I want to start exposing a grafana instance but for now I’m keeping this internal since it hits our live postgres.
The query if you want it is:
SELECT DATE(published AT TIME ZONE 'UTC') AS date, COUNT(*) FILTER (WHERE instance_id IN (SELECT id FROM instance WHERE domain = 'lemmy.ca')) AS lemmy_ca, COUNT(*) FILTER (WHERE instance_id IN (SELECT id FROM instance WHERE domain = 'sh.itjust.works')) AS sh_itjust_works, COUNT(*) FILTER (WHERE instance_id IN (SELECT id FROM instance WHERE domain = 'lemmy.world')) AS lemmy_world, COUNT(*) FILTER (WHERE instance_id IN (SELECT id FROM instance WHERE domain = 'lemmy.dbzer0.com')) AS dbzer0, COUNT(*) FILTER (WHERE instance_id IN (SELECT id FROM instance WHERE domain = 'jlai.lu')) AS jlai_lu, count(*) as all_lemmy FROM person GROUP BY 1 ORDER BY 1;Or here’s your instance overlayed with us to provide a comparison:
Nice, thank you!
A suggestion from someone who frequently deals with observability infrastructure: it’s a good idea to set up a postgres exporter and record your data as Prometheus metrics, that way querying the metrics does not hit any of the production stack.
Prometheus is the goat, and is built into a surprisingly large amount of FOSS service tools. JupyterHub for example includes Prometheus metrics out of the box
Eh. Calling it the goat is excessive. I’m planning to go victoriametrics instead.
Yes the exporter format is common and widely supported though, which is nice.
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
Is there a problem using an email alias to sign up? I applied more than a week ago. I recognize it’s a lot of work but I was wondering if I had been accidentally been binned as a bot.
Not usually. Can you dm me the account name or email and I’ll look later tonight?
canadAsucks@[email protected]
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!
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.
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.
Welcome! Have fun!
Nice so they were talking about us there!
Congrats. Canada needs to build its own social media infrastructure.
They should also build a wall so our stupid stays south of their sovereign border.
Not all of us are stupid. Just a majority. No more than 3/4. Maybe. On a really good day.
Let’s just put the argument to rest by becoming Canadian. Please?
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.
Nope, here for a break from the drama on r/ehbuddyhoser.
Should probably find a place to cross post some of their memes here now that I think of it. The Bay of Nova Scotia was gold.
Making c/ehbuddyhoser is an option
Do it. [email protected] needs friends.
Done [email protected]
Hosers and Wankers need to do speed dating.
Sounds unwise.
Please. That’s one of the few reasons I go to Reddit, getting some of that maple memes.
And us Americans from reddit and month old Rednote accounts.
Welcome!
Welcome!
Please check out the open-source [email protected]
Welcome fellow canucks!
I look forward to the communities you create and contribute to!
