We have gotten a lot of new signups over the past few days, and we’re all very excited to have you joining us! You’ll find that people are more than happy to help you get started and learn how to use the site.
If you feel up for it, you can introduce yourself or ask questions below!
We have put together some resources to help new users get started:
You can also read:
- A quick overview of Lemmy
- A detailed guide on how Lemmy works
- A quick overview of ‘the Fediverse’
- Learn about the non-profit that runs this site
These guides were published very recently, and we will be updating them over time. If you find that something is confusing or missing, please let us know and we can improve them further.
For an organized list of Canadian communities (provinces/territories, Cities / Local , Sports, Schools, BuyCanadian, CanadaPolitics etc.), see this post on [email protected]. You can also ask about communities in places like [email protected].
We also encourage you to check out [email protected], so that others can help you / learn from your questions.
Welcome to Lemmy :)
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absolutely new to here (and to Lemmy, just learn that this exist today from… well … reddit) Glad to be here and glad to move on from there. Thanks to all the folks who host this, setting this up, and making this happen!
Welcome 😊
Definitely check out the guides above, and drop by in [email protected] if you have any issues!
🫶 happy to be here
Make yourselves at home!
Please check out [email protected] and [email protected]
A couple of notes and unsolicited advice as someone who is almost an old hand already…
(1) Your front-page will be more interesting as you subscribe to more things. You can subscribe to things from other Lemmy servers and they will be pulled into your feed here.
(2) Communities that are hosted on this server will show up under “Local”.
(3) “All” shows all of the local content from (2), but also any content that this server had to fetch from other servers for others. Basically, when you subscribe to stuff, it’ll end up in All for everyone else on this server as well. If no one on the server has subscribed to specific content from another server, it won’t show up in All. As a result, All is sort of a cross section of our users’ interests.
(4) If you were to sign up for another server – say lemm.ee – you would get a different Local and All. But you should be able to subscribe to the same things regardless of the server you chose.
(5) Some servers are not connected to others, for reasons. This is called defederation. It’s basically a means to block an entire server who has a community not behaving in a way that doesn’t jive well on your local server. Lemmygrad.ml is blocked from this server, for example. You probably won’t notice, but on rare occasions you can’t subscribe to a community on a blocked server.
(6) You can help the quieter communities grow by shitposting. Throw your backlog of old saved memes into them. There isn’t as much traffic here as reddit, and the niche communities often don’t exist (or are silent).
(7) Find a larger community to post to for engagement. For example, on Reddit I would subscribe to the WinnipegJets team sub, but on Lemmy it is too quiet. So instead I post my Jets content to the more general Hockey community so we can have some discussion. This will change over time.
(8) A good place to find communities to subscribe to is: https://lemmyverse.net/communities – copy and paste the community name – eg: [email protected] – into the search bar and then subscribe.
(9) Meow
(10) Try different sort options. New or Scales are my favourites.
(11) Also don’t be afraid to curate the feed the block button is your friend, don’t like certain users, communities or instances baaam block, there’s your peace of mind.
Yes! I have so much anime softcore blocked in my feed haha.
The block button is key to curating your general daily experience on Lemmy. Obviously block anything you don’t like, but also use it if you’re not interested in a specific scene or topic. You can always remove the block later if you want. I think of the block button more like the “Not Interested” button on Youtube.
Tip: sort by “Top 12 hours or 24hours”. This is equivalent to reddit’s “hot”
Ah ha! Perfect. This is what I was missing. Thank you.
I’ve been here for awhile and have a pretty good understanding of how federation works. Number (3) was a very concise way to explain how the All feed works. I sort of knew but that really helped me understand.
Number (7), I will suggest the use of the cross-posting feature. Post to the larger community for engagement but also cross-post to the smaller communities to help them grow. Quiet communities are a cat-and-mouse game where people don’t post or comment because no one else is. The more people start to engage, the more others will start to engage.
What I like doing is posting to the small community first, and then cross posting from there
That way people in the larger community can follow the link back and learn about the community if they’re interested. It also helps to mention the community at the start of the cross post since Lemmy doesn’t do that automatically
Hi thanks for welcoming. I joined this community because I was looking for a non u.s based social platform, that was like a reddit/message board, while being close to. Seems like a great social community on the Fediverse.
Happy to have you here 😊
Is there any interest in taking donations on Librapay or Open collective again?
We haven’t revisited our donation methods yet, but we will at some point.
If you have a moment, could you share why you’d prefer to have Librapay / Open collective over the existing options? No wrong answers, I just wanted to copy it into our notes for when we revisit all that
I think I’d like those options for a couple of reasons. First would be recurring payments in Canadian dollars. Second would be more visibility for financial contributions, help to see you’re apart of community of donors, and lastly I think these two institutions seem aligned with the values of federation, and bottom up community driven initiatives.
Thanks! I’ve noted that down
Thank you for Lemmy.ca :) Go #TeamCanada
Hey so as a Canadian, we are about to get attacked by our long time ally and the worlds military superpower. We are probably going to be steamrolled, and then become second class citizens in the Trump dictatorship cult. Am I allowed to say violent things about how that makes me feel? Or will I get banned, like on reddit?
We’re pretty reasonable with moderation here. The way Lemmy works, mod actions are recorded publicly for transparency. You can access those record here, but as a warning before you open the page, “Some deleted posts may contain disturbing or adult material”: https://lemmy.ca/modlog
So far we’ve only banned users site wide when it was a consistent problem (ex. spam bot, harassing other users). However, we do need to remove comments that are clearly against the law in Canada, else we couldn’t keep operating.
It really comes down to what the comment is. If you look through the threads on here, a lot of people are already expressing how they feel, or what Canada’s/Canadians’ response should be. Where it might be a problem is if someone says they’re going to do something violent/illegal, or call for someone else to do it
Hopefully that makes sense?
“don’t get the admins subpoenaed” is probably a good rule of thumb.
(You folks do a great job, I appreciate the community you’ve fostered and tended to here)
There’s one way to find out.
Just save it… and when the time comes… we do what we gotta do
I can totally relate to you in those regards.
Purchase a long rifle and shoot it often. I say this as a staunch pacifist. Having a weapon and using it are two different things. For a thousand reasons, if a genuine war broke out it would likely destroy America. Unfortunately, likely taking Canada with it.
Regardless, be armed and be prepared. It is not as bleak as you may think, even in the worst case scenario. Best case scenario nothing happens and you take up hunting or target shooting as a hobby!
You will be less likely to be banned. Still, be reasonable, tactful and don’t be a dick about it, even if I get that you came here to express your genuine feelings.
“Kill [person of interest]” is off limits here and on many other servers, but there are ways you can describe how your frustration in ways that aren’t illegal or personally charged. “Fuck [person of interest]” is nearly universally allowed here. Even if not banned, the outcome of whether you are upvoted to heaven or downvoted to hell will depend on the person and the context.
Salut/Hi there!
Welcome! 😊
Bonjour, all! 🙂
Bonjour! 😊
Bonjour all.
Beinvenue!
Bonjour, et bienvenue 😊
Hi everyone!
Welcome 😊
Bonjour, fellow Canadian Lemmies! I’d deleted my Reddit, account in November, and was only lurking, so it’s nice to have a voice in the conversation once more.
Welcome 😊
Not a new user but I’m actually finally deleting my Reddit acct. Just updating all my comments and posts now using redact. The recent news about Elon getting them to massage their content was enough. Fuck them.
I deleted my reddit account a while ago. Sometimes I still lurk, but it hasn’t been the same lately. I was a redditor since 2010.
Welcome to lemmy! I hope you like it here!
Well, now I must give it a try!
What exactly is an ‘instance’?
So, Lemmy is software that lets you build an off-the-shelf content aggregation website, similar to how Wordpress lets you build an off-the-shelf blog. There are dozens of moderate to large websites running Lemmy, and hundreds of small or tiny ones running it.
Each one of these websites can, if the users and admins enable it, subscribe to communities hosted on other Lemmy-based websites, which lets them comment on posts in those communities, or even make their own posts to them.
Because this intercommunication allows users to treat remotely-hosted communities as if they are local to the user’s website, it’s common for people to think of the network of Lemmy-based websites as a signular entity. In this model, each of the independent websites running Lemmy gets called an “instance”.
The same terminology is used for Mastodon-based websites, and other websites that allow for similar auto-syndication of content that creates a simulacra of a centralized content environment. So, a “Lemmy instance” is a “website running Lemmy that is participating in active content syndication”, a “Mastodon instance” is “a website running Mastodon that is participating in active content syndication”, etc. You can replace “Mastodon” or “Lemmy” with “mbin”, “Friendica”, “PieFed”, “Misskey”, “Hubzilla”, “PeerTube”, “PixelFed”, “BookWyrm”, “FunkWhale”, “nodeBB”, or any number of other website engines that are participating in this type of ecosystem.
So, it sounds (actually, ‘reads)’ like a treatise written by someone indoctrinated into the ‘Linux - C++’ ideology (theocracy? The Religion of IT? Way back in the ‘olden days’, we referred to ‘getting a job at IBM’ as ‘entering the Priesthood’ ). The term ‘instance’ comes directly out of the obscure-to-the-masses lexicon of C++, Please, translate your indoctrinated terminology into something more identifiable and familiar to the masses in order for us plebians to follow it.
Or at least provide a ‘definition of terms’ translation service, written without any reference to exclusively in-house terminology in the description.
Also, it would be really, really useful to modify the ‘messages’ coding such that, when clicking to link to the post in ‘messages’ to see the original post, the reader went directly to their post in the thread, instead of starting at the top and having to scroll through page after page of other irrelevant posts in order to see just the activity on their original post.
Welcome!
I’d recommend looking through these two guides / infographics as they are a good introduction
How does Lemmy work, in detail
If you consider the network of email providers, then “gmail” could be considered one “instance” of the network. You can use it as a self-contained service, but the strength comes from being a part of the wider network.
So you can use lemmy.ca as if it was an isolated Canadian version of reddit, but the strength comes from being able to access communities from all over
