Lemmy.ca's Main Community

Hello from nw pa. Enjoying the smoke

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?

Thank you for having me!

Another Reddit refugee here. Just signed up and am looking around and figuring it all out.

I see there's a significant number of some of the ~~subreddits~~ communities that I frequented that don't seem to exist here yet. So, naturally, I am motivated to create some of these.

Where and how do I announce to lemmy.ca and to other servers that a new community has been created? Is there a protocol for this, and a community for such announcements?

Thank you for approving me! And on Canada Day too!

I'm not Canadian nor do I live in Canada however I have been following Canadian issues for some time now and am thinking about joining CanadaPolitics. I am from New Zealand (hence my username). I would like to interact with average Canadians to find out what life is like over there. Don't panic, I am not thinking of emigrating there. I understand you have a housing crisis over there at the moment. I watch a lot of Canadian YouTube channels. My interest is more about what life is like over there.

I suppose I should mention I am a long time Reddit user which looks like it is imploding these days.

As I am new here are there any rules I should know about?

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!

Coming from Reddit also, and trying to navigate around here - Happy Canada Day!🍁

Thanks for this awesome server, it really is so chill to have a place with decent users and without the drama of lemmy.world.

Hello all, I'm (yet another) new user from reddit, moving on once again. I'm currently in the Montreal area, and my interests include sewing, gardening and bending computers to my will. Hoping to become more active here than I ever was in reddit, but still working on figuring out this fediverse.

Greetings from the Wet Coast, fellow Canuckleheads! Another Reddit Refugee. I've had such a great experience with Mastodon, I'm looking at other ways the fediverse and distributed social networks can inform and entertain, while preserving privacy and not selling its users information as product.

Interests include technology, Linux, tabletop RPGs, computer games, science, Indigenous language revitalization, plus whatever might make me curious.

Heyo! Nice to be here, excited for Lemmy so far. Thanks for hosting!

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.

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?

First time on lemmy, first post ever and glad to see we can write with markdown 🙂

Hi all, happy to be here. Just joined a few moments ago. Looking forward to discovering how the fediverse works in this context (also a mastodon user)!

Is there anyway for users to hide/dismiss pinned messages? This topic keeps appearing first and the only option seems to be block you, or main. Both of which I don't want to do, I personally just do not need to see this 2 week old pinned message, I know others do though

Hello from Ontario. Using Jerboa.

Very new to Quebec, really excited about the sudden increase in decentralization. Mostly here for learning about Canada+QC and lurk on linux related chatter :)

Hello fellow Canucks! Slowly getting used to how this all works and gotta admit, it's kind of neat so far! Looking forward to trading my crippling reddit addiction for a crippling Lemmy addiction.

Redditor of 11 years chiming in from BC.

Hello, Lemmy community! Greetings from BC.

I've been a reddit user for a lot of years, and have been looking for an alternative for a while now. Maybe this is it? I like things that are free, open-source, distributed, federated, etc. I want to give my energy to this kind of community, not something run by a corporation.

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.

Can someone explain a little bit about how federation works? Can I log into other Lemmy servers using my lemmy.ca login? Also can I create communities that exist across multiple servers?

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?

Aloha. I see that "mamot.fr" is a linked instance here. Can I subscribe here, to something like mamot.fr/@pluralistic?

Thanks for the welcome! Lemmy sure is a bit different, but a distributed approach feels like the right way. I guess you could call me a digg and a reddit refugee since I'm pretty much done with both of those.

I'm an old tech dude these days, I guess. But I know a good bit of new tech too.

Hello Lemmians... Lemmites? Lemmons?

What's the preferred nomenclature for the denizens of this site?

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.

Sup.

I'm not really new (was on Mastodon.social years and years ago, now self host my own instance, also have been on a different Lemmy instance for about a year).

I've had an account on Reddit for awhile, deleted it, then made a new one, but now thinking of deleting it again. I made an account here in case something happens with my other Lemmy account because that instance is relatively inactive. Also I'm Canadian and I think that part of my identity takes precedence over any other consideration so having a Lemmy.ca profile makes sense.