Lemmy.ca's Main Community

BC here, yet another reddit refugee. New to the fediverse and still trying to figure it out.

Hi everybody! Nice to meet you all. :D I'm over in Ottawa, and I'm completely new to Lemmy (immigrating from Reddit), so I hope I can learn the culture of this place okay!

First thing's first: I'm going to figure out how to navigate this place, and then I'm going to start talking to folks. Wish me luck (or wish me a For Redditors help guide). :P

Edit: This is probably going to make the OG Lemmings (Lemmites?) cry, but I think this place makes easier sense if I go at it like:

• Instance = subreddit
• Community = post flair

Because each instance is its own website with its own admin, and each community is a group within that instance. I can join a community to chat about whatever the community's about, but if I want to go to the communities in a different instance, it's like going to a different subreddit; I can't just find it by trying to 'filter' the communities by their 'flair' since that community isn't 'here'. It's at a completely different subreddit/instance/website. :)

New Brunswick Reddit refuge....

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!

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

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

Hello from Ottawa , the 613. Can anyone point me to url for the history of the Lemmy site, perhaps even the backstory of Lemmy.ca ? I didn't check into Reddit back in 2015. I am interested. I was led here by a reddit moderator in the electronics industry.

Edit2 I found Michaels intro post and the ten tutorial inks and I will start there

Introducing myself here. I'm a refugee from Reddit. I'm a father, Catholic, lawyer from rural Alberta near Calgary.

I've always been a big fan of open source software and I'm trying to figure out the federated model of social media. I figured this is probably the right place for me to pop into and branch out from here.

Looking forward to eventually replacing Reddit entirely if the Lemmy instances get to that point.

Is there a way to sort comments? Currently using Jerboa on android

Hi, another Reddit refugee here from Vancouver Island! I've had some experience with federated software through Mastodon, but I like Reddit-style forums better.

My life revolves around finding cool rocks, polishing those cool rocks into neat little shapes, then making silver jewelry out of them. Also DIY/home decorating, plant-based cooking, and playing the same old video games over and over.

Hi, I'm coming over from Mastodon to poke around for a while. Going to fill out a proper bio in the coming days. Looks cool!

hi everyone! one more from the reddit exodus… currently living in southwestern ON. hoping to join some communities focused on gaming, hiking and beer drinking in the area! if you got any suggestions, let me know!

Hey all,

Just joined here and Mastodon. Using a web blocker and finding alternatives to break my Reddit habit and leave that place behind. Looking forward to learning new platforms.

Cheers

Hey there, is there anything I can do about a single community dominating my “hot” sorting in the subscribed homepage?

My subscribed communities are a mix of very small and very large communities, but when I view my subscribed feed it’s almost exclusively the largest ones, with the same posts dominating for several days. This effectively makes the subscribed page useless for me.

Is there no way to see a variety of communities like I would with the Reddit algorithm? Thanks!

From Digg, to Reddit to here!

Hi,

Yet another Reddit migrant here. Stopped using RIF the day the blackout started and never went back.

I downloaded a app today called Connect for Lemmy from the Google app store. Seems ok so far, and decided to connect to your instance since, hey I'm in Canada.

I seemed to find a lot of the local communities I was in on Reddit here, however the content is not nearly as much as in Reddit. Hopefully more people migrate here.

If you ever do set something up to help fund the ongoing costs I'm definately in.

Hello from Ontario! Too bad we could not sign up with our existing Mastodon user account (is that even possible?).

Happy to be here and I'm excited about having a dedicated Canadian Lemmy instance.

Thank you for all your hard work @smorks@lemmy.ca and @crb@lemmy.ca !

hello chat. im just the average reddit refugee. im excited to see how reddit messes up even further

Thanks for the welcome! I am from Sask originally, but currently residing in STILL FLIPPING SNOWY Nunavut!

No, I'm not bitter. Not at all. Nope. Too cold to be bitter.

Greetings all. Like many here, I'm a Reddit refugee and happy to find a new community. My interests include video games, computers, travel and books.

Thank you for the warm welcome!

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?

I’m really liking how Lemmy is shaping up. Once a quality android & iOS app is developed I could see it being a complete Reddit replacement

I randomly found an incredibly helpful post by @tezoatlipoca over on a lemmy.ml thread about how we're going to pay for "all this". It was there I saw that lemmy.ca existed so when it was time to register, I knew exactly where to go. Thanks again, mate.

Hello from beautiful BC! I am also transitioning to this platform from Reddit. My interests include book binding, video games, sobriety/recovery, reading, hockey, and Star Wars.

I had Jerboa installed on my phone for the last month or so. The Reddit issues finally got my butt in gear. I've gotten into open source software and self hosting in the past year and while I manage Windows environments in my professional life I moved to Linux in my personal environment. Really helps separate work/home life and I've learned a ton of new stuff which I love. Happy to be a part of the fediverse!

Hey everyone! I'm from Ottawa. Refugee from Reddit, looking forward to exploring Lemmy and the fediverse generally.

Thank you for the welcome and hello everyone. All the major platforms have censored my free speech so now I'm spreading the word to Lemmy users in the great state of CA!

One time a young man, very big man and obviously from CA, came up to me with tears in his eyes and he told me "sir, you are so incredibly stable, I was about to lose my grip on reality until I found out about how incredibly stable you are and I thought 'if he's stable, I'll be stable too'" and he was for the rest of his days people. My stability did that. Who knows what he might've done, maybe nothing but probably something, we don't know, but if you put me in prison, the people who need my stability, they're wonderful special people but they might do some bad things. Sad!

[Hello, I'm in St. John's where it's currently 6 degrees with a light drizzle.]

Glad to be here! I went ahead and made a couple of communities to mirror Reddit's KingstonOntario. I prefer the underscore since there's no capitalization, but I made another without the underscore just to avoid someone else making it and splitting the community. Hopefully we can get more posts and ones of higher quality than over on the ol' Reddit. I've been using Reddit since before Digg thought it would be a good idea to do exactly what Reddit is now doing... History repeats itself until we learn I guess!

I'm not really understanding how communities work across servers. I was able to create /c/Nintendo, as well as subscribe to /c/Nintendo from lemmy.world. I can comment in either, but when I go to the one from lemmy.world from lemmy.ca I can only see my comment and none of the other comments in that thread.

Hello from Hamilton!

Fairly new here--- I'm trying to sub to some /c/ in .ml but I'm seeing "subscribe pending" and I wasn't seeing that when I was subscribing to communities earlier. Is this a bug or does my sub request need approval from a mod in that community?

New to lemmy as a previous redditor. I'm having a hell of a time trying to subscribe to other server's communities. For instance, if I search !indieheads@lemmy.world on lemmy.ca, nothing is found, having the same issue with !wine@lemmy.world. How do I subscribe to these communities from a lemmy.ca account? Thanks in advance for any help!