Hi There,

Yet another reddit refugee from Canada's West Coast. I've been in reddit for 15 years, mostly as a lurker with intermittent contributions (mostly comments in discussion threads). I used to use old.reddit, so would not have been affected (yet) by the announced API changes directly, but I am disappointed in the most recent behaviour of the admins over there and their disregard for the communities at large and the countless contributions of volunteer moderators, developers and content contributors that helped reddit to grow to what it is today.

I'm looking forward to explore Lemmy and Tildes and enjoy the reddit feel of the earlier days.

Hello all! Posting from Mlem on iOS 17!

Who is the admin for this server? Can you tell us about yourself? What makes this server different from some others (except for its Canadian bias, of course).

Is it run on AWS instance, and are you self funding it?

Hi folks!

I'm Anvil, a student in his final term of an I.T. program. I moved to Ontario for school, so it's been a bit of a wild ride. I'm hoping to find a good Reddit alternative for after RIF goes down due to corporate greed.

General interests include games (PC, switch, PS5), books (fantasy and sci-fi mostly), movies, and music. Big fan of board games and TTRPGs too (#ForeverDM)

Here's to the future!

Northern Ontario checking in. Cheers everyone.

I am Systems Analyst that has been working in IT for the past 30 years. Mostly interested in technology discussion around open source software, systems and network troubleshooting.

Nice to meet you all! Still getting used to the website, I have some instances who work always great, and others working meh, but hey, I think a lot of tweaks will have to be made because we are a lot to migrate here lol

I'm still not fully grasping this. Am I supposed to make accounts for multiple instances?

It's nice to be here! I've been meaning to check this place out for a while, and suddenly there's much more activity, so now seems like a good time :)

Is there a Patreon page or something where we can send donations for lemmy.ca in particular? I'd love to be sure you have what you need to keep this all running.

Hi, i am not canadian but chose here because i dont want to contribute to one server such as lemmy.ml getting to large. I have actually had this account for a while and am a frequent mastodon user but hadnt really kicked the tires much around here.

Here from Reddit, and this is looking like a great new space. Cheers!

Hey all, I'm an ex-pat living in the UK, Scotland to be precise...er. I'm from Vancouver, and I'm on lemmy.ml, as .ca didn't appear to be an option when I signed up.

I'm a Stone Mason, have a cat who's a bit of a shithead, and I make electronic music as a hobby.

I'm not exactly a Reddit refugee, since I've been using a variety of decentralized communications systems for a while. I even still make small use of Usenet! That said, now seems like a good time to get signed up on a lemmy instance with my "real" username.

I chose this instance for several reasons. It seems like a solid and sane instance (from my perspective!). It helps keep the load off of the "main" instance (which load would be less if someone put some effort into not making it seem like the obvious place to sign up). Last but not least, hello from Southern Saskatchewan!

Hello from Canada's Pants!

I'm a reddit refugee. I signed up at Beehow first, but after looking around, saw some of you fine folks from here showing up over there. Beehow seems nice, but even though I have no connection to it, I have always had an affinity for Canada, so I looked around over here and decided to make this my home. :) Although I'm thinking of setting up my own instance, too.

One of the reasons I thought I might be happier over here is that while Beehaw seems pretty neutral, my politics are not, so I figure in the long run, I probably share more in common with folks here than there.

I was on reddit since 2009 when I had my 15 minutes of fame and folks there invited me to do an AMA. I was a default mod for a while. I deleted /u/daychilde trying to escape reddit. Failed, went back, moderated some more. Left again, went back. I only mod my local city's subreddit now, and basically I'm done with reddit. Lemmy and tildes are replacements for me, and so far I'm liking them both!

I hope you will forgive me for being American and let me hang out with you fine folks :)

Hello from Eastern Ontario. I am a Reddit Refugee and this is my first day on Lemmy. I'm happy to make lemmy.ca my home. I'm interested in maple syrup making, microcontrollers and using them to make maple syrup, and my first computer was a Commodore 64 and I recently completed a SixtyClone 250466 Commodore 64 clone. I'm a small farmer, amateur welder, and I am an information security sales engineer by day. I've created three communities and hope to contribute to Lemmy. If you think I might be interested in a community please point me in the right direction.

One thing I find confusing is the notification bell icon. I notice that even if I check it, it still registers the same number of notifications that it had done previously. This number never seems to go down. What's with that?

Hello everyone,

Still trying to get used to the new setup over on Lemmy, however trying to make some new communities work. Want to get /c/ontario and /c/waterloo running with some active discussions and people. Hopefully we can make a difference. :)

Edit: I'd also love to know the hardware that you're running this on!

I just signed up tonight. I tried to log in about an hour after signing up, and it worked. Now I have to see whether I can find a community that lives elsewhere on lemmy.

Hello there. I've been dabbling a bit on sites to escape reddit and that retard spez. I am currently trying this, said it, scored and poal. I'm hoping I can find a new place to enjoy. My main concern is the hobby subs may not compare well to those I used on reddit.

There seems to be an issue with the signup process on lemmy.ca. I've been trying to signup for a while today but the Sign Up button just keeps spinning when I click it. I've tried numerous things to try to fix it and nothing seems to work. Signed up on a different server so I could report the issue.

Hello everyone, new to Lemmy!

I had randomly picked up Lemmy.world but found Lemmy.ca along the way.

Was hoping to sign up here but it seems to be having issues. Hopefully that gets resolved over the next few days and I can land over here with y'all.

If not, I guess it doesn't really matter. I can just sub around here too.

Fediverse is cool :)

Hey! New Ontarian user here. I'm jumping ship from Reddit before my favorite app loses API access. It's a real shame Reddit went that route.

I'm a software developer by day. I love gaming, sci-fi/fantasy paper/audio books, metal and electronic music.

I hope Reddit suffers a serious exodus. Maybe the secret to ending the cycle of shitty corporate social media is to help with the open source federated approach?

Glad to be here. I am still trying to comprehend how all these different servers/instances work but lemmy should hopefully be more resilient from a takeover a la twitter (never had a twitter account fortunately) or an implosion from above a la reddit.

Sorry for the dumb question, but how do I interact with all the other servers/instance (for example beehaw.org or lemmy.ml, etc.) do i use the same login and password as the lemmy.ca?

Hello! Came over from Reddit based on recommendations from Mastodon friends. Looking forward to interact on food, Habs, wine, Canadian politics, and tv shows. My last favourite was Succession. I can't start a new show for fear of being disappointed. What are you watching?