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!

  • Spruce_Gum@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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!

      • Werewolf_Cop@lemmy.caEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Question for you: are pretty much all of the users Canadian or in Canada? Is it possible to tell?

        • Kichae@lemmy.caEnglish
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          2 months ago

          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.

          • turtle [he/him]@lemm.eeEnglish
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            2 months ago

            Users without the suffix (if your client omits local addressing) are on lemmy.ca

            Just FYI, I don’t believe that this is strictly true. In most cases it is, but I’ve seen many users outside my instance without the suffix. I believe that if someone edits their display name it drops the suffix, or at least it used to. Maybe that’s been corrected?

          • nyan@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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            2 months ago

            though, as you know/ we are everywhere

            True enough. I joined a British instance for reasons that seemed good enough to me at the time I signed up. I kind of pity any Canadian who decided to sign up with an American instance somewhere back in the depths of time, though—I don’t think Trump will manage to put a tariff on electrons, but I wouldn’t put it past him to try, and the last I checked, migration of accounts between servers in the Fediverse was still kind of half-baked.

  • Kichae@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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.

  • Guillaume Harvey@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    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!

    • Quokka@quokk.au
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      2 months ago

      I heard Reddit was going to charge subscriptions for subreddits.

      Also they banned a bunch of porn and lgbt subs.

      • Makeshift@sh.itjust.works
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        2 months ago

        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!

  • Shadow@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    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):

      • Shadow@lemmy.ca
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        2 months ago

        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:

        • lemmyng@lemmy.caEnglish
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          2 months ago

          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.

          • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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            2 months ago

            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

            • Shadow@lemmy.ca
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              2 months ago

              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.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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

  • Snowstorm@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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.

  • vastard@lemmynsfw.com
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    2 months ago

    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.

  • dylanjustice@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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.