Okay this federated stuff is really growing on me.

The idea that you can sign up on any server, and still have a feed from many different servers is pretty cool.

My first post, and hopefully the picture i attached works. This is Loki, my 27 year old macaw, one of 2 rainbow chickens i have

Hey fellow (mostly) Canadians! Reddit Refugee of 13 years, this is my first Lemmy experience. I originally made a Lemmy.world account, but moved here as I felt more comfortable having the server hosted in Canada for data integrity/security.

Seems like a neat place, the distributed/"federated" stuff was a bit confusing at first, but seems neat. I guess we'll see how big the migration from Reddit to here is.

Hello fellow humans. I’m actually from a different CA, California. But I’m a believer that you should choose an instance based upon the administration not on topic, and this one feels much more in line with my sensibilities than the other large ones. Sorry to stereotype, but the conversations feel kinder here than elsewhere (even by the already nice standards of lemmy instances overall.)

I don’t much like sharing personal type information online, so I hope you’ll forgive my brevity. I don’t work in tech, but have had a lifelong interest in it so I feel right at home here at the ground floor of a new community.

Hello from Canada's best and most important and relevant province!

Manitoba!

Hi, I'm a programmer living in beautiful rural New Brunswick. I guess you can say I'm part of the Reddit exodus, but still unsure if I'll leave that platform for good. Hoping for a much better experience and interactions here. Have an awesome day, everyone!

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 :)

Thanks for the warm welcome smorks! Also here from reddit, and I can already tell that this is the online community I've been yearning for. People connecting with each other, engaging in discussion. There's a lot of good things that came from reddit over the years, but as I've read so many times in various relationship subreddits "When people show you who they are, believe them the first time" (sorry Maya Angelou).

Spez showed us what he really thinks of his userbase, and I'm proud to add reddit to the list of corporations I won't use because they're dicks.

Ahem.

Really glad to see a strong Canadian contingent here. May your timmies be hot and your beer cold 😁

Hello from the forests of Quebec. I'm a huge fan of decentralization and open source tools. I will be hanging around here and watching reddit implode from afar. I was one of the digg exodus crowd, so I know that there is no way I can live without a link aggregator and discussion platform, lemmy seems like an instant win to me!

Thanks for making this Canadian instance :) I first created my account on Lemmy.ml, but also made one here since I am Canadian. Looking forward to seeing Lemmy grow as a whole, and see more Canadians join the Fediverise :)

For anyone interested, I've made a community for posting PC hardware/accessory sales (r/bapcsalescanada). Feel free to join and contribute. And if you know how to create an RSS feed, also let me know!

I'm a reddit refugee like many others, and was delighted to find Canada well-represented in the fediverse!

Now I've been exploring various communities and have a question. Many posts seem to offer a link to another instance and all the comments are local to that instance. I don't think I can post there without opening a new account? Or am I wrong? I can comment in the post containing the link, but there is usually no activity there, so I can't join an ongoing discussion that way.

Or at least that's the way it appears to me. I'm confused!

Vancouver Island here. Happy to see a woodworking community getting going here already, and hoping to see a bigger rock climbing community on lemmy in the future. Thanks for hosting!

Hello from South Eastern Ontario! Great to be here! I'm about anything tech, fitness, automotive (cars, trucks, motorcycles, ICE, Hybrid, Electric), and overall physical and mental health!

Very open minded and always will to learn. I also have this uncanny ability to change my opinion and direction as long as there is sufficient data from reputable sources :)

Let's link up and chat!

Checking in from Nova Scotia! Fellow Rexxiter (?) looking for a new location to plant roots with a good community. Primary interests are in automotive, woodworking, cycling, and electronics.

Happy to be here with you all!

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.

Hello from Ottawa! This is my first Lemmy post. Reddit refugee.

Fifteen-year veteran of reddit checking in. So glad to be a part of this societal shift, and excited to see where we go from here!

If anyone else is missing an old-reddit/digg style UI on the desktop, I've published Rediggit for Lemmy. It's very much a work-in-progress, but it should scratch that immediate itch for more legroom. Currently for light theme only, but more coming (and feel free to hack away and shape my mess into something even better).

Reddit old-timer from Toronto here. Happy to see how fast the Fediverse is evolving thanks to u/spez. Feels like the internet again.

Thanks for the warm welcome! While things are still new, I know it will pick up. I feel like this is my new home after 12 years on reddit

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! 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?

I'm pleasantly surprised there are so many people here already. The experience has been a lot better than I expected. The UI is nice and lean. It was super easy to subscribe to communities from this and other instances. It's really exciting to be a part of something for which the core mission is not shareholder value.

I'm from Kansas City! We're kinda like Canadians!

Hi. Canadian living in South East Asia. On Mastodon, @elias@go.arkadi.one Linux, coffee, and board game enthusiast.

Checking out this Lemmy thing until I try self-hosting it myself.

Good Afternoon My Fellow Canucks (Canadians) and Canadian Lovers Eh!

Like many of you, I have also left Reddit and plan to make my home here. I'm in York Region in Ontario and well have a distributed set of friends all over the place. Lots of love to my brothers and sisters in the surrounding Provinces.

As for me, well I tend to read about technology, play allot of board games, and seem to dabble in Linux land while helping people with techie issues. I'm currently trying to learn the board game "Earth" which at some point will teach at game night.

Hope you all have a great day!

Hello! Another Reddit refugee here. Saskatoon is home for me. Looking forward to figuring out how Lemmy and the Fediverse differs from what I'm used to.

Hello from Vancouver! Like many others I'm a Reddit refugee. My interests include AI, data science, homemade vegan ice cream, Linux, tech, Linux gaming, and Pathfinder 2e.

Hello and thanks for the greetings! Yet another reddit refugee from Canada's east coast. Looking forward to learning the ropes around here and enjoy some comments. Hopefully this site can remain as a refreshing change from other sites.

Omg did I actually figure out how to join? Yay

Just joined today! Going to be fun to find new communities to interact with.

Thank you for making a Canadian instance. I became a citizen this month, and I couldn't be happier about it.

Thank-you for the welcome. Looking forward to the non-centralized fun

Hello all! Posting from Mlem on iOS 17!

Hi! I just joined as well. I haven’t decided yet whether I give up Reddit or not. I am happy with my move to Mastodon so I figured I try Lemmy as well. I am in Alberta 👋🏻

Question on the nuance of federation-- is there a reason to spin up a community locally in .ca if a really popular one already exists in another server? Would most people here just sync up to that other server and ignore the local one? I'm thinking we might want to avoid having 500 communities for everything

Coming from a reddit mindset where it was easier because you just had one community to think about

edit: by this I don't mean "can we" but rather what's best practice or what does the existing community tend to default to