They must be those cool folks from r/onguardforthee and r/fredericton! Lets get off those american Reddit servers eh!
Update: there’s a thread on r/buycanadian with 93 upvotes, promoting the platform! Open the floodgates baby!
Doing my part and reporting in! 🫡
Welcome all , lets keep it going . Also thanks for the super admin we got here .
Update 2: 9.3k users has been hit! It keeps going!
Oh Canada, we must come together to protect our country from the insane monsters south of our border.
The insane monsters in canada too. Cough pp Cough danielle Smith Cough cough
Unfortunately, she has a couple years of term left. Then Nenshi can eat her lunch.
It’s, “O Canada,” which means something very different than, “Oh, Canada.”
Lemmy is love. Welcome everyone :)
We’re bunch of fluffy taneggs!
Wait you mean .ca is Canada and not California??
It could be both if you joined us
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I’ve known this for almost as long as I’ve been on lemmy… but I still read it as lemmy California at first.
r/sellcalifornia
!sellcalifornia
I’m not on lemmy.ca but as a moose I appreciate this post and my fellow Canadians 🇨🇦🫎
A moose once bit my sister
It means he’s playful.
hey guys check out this moose over here.
Are you a tiny moose?
Just joined to get away from Reddit - I’m pleasantly surprised with how active it seems here despite the much smaller community! This is exciting!
Welcome!
We like to party too!
Question for you: are pretty much all of the users Canadian or in Canada? Is it possible to tell?
Users that you see with an email-like suffix to their name are using different websites and are less likely to be Camadian (though, as you know/ we are everywhere). Users without the suffix (if your client omits local addressing) are on lemmy.ca and are much more likely to be Canadian.
though, as you know/ we are everywhere
True enough. I joined a British instance for reasons that seemed good enough to me at the time I signed up. I kind of pity any Canadian who decided to sign up with an American instance somewhere back in the depths of time, though—I don’t think Trump will manage to put a tariff on electrons, but I wouldn’t put it past him to try, and the last I checked, migration of accounts between servers in the Fediverse was still kind of half-baked.
You can join communities on other instances too if you have specific interests.
I would assume most users are Canadian as they would have more related interests here.
Hi, I use sh.itjust.works, another fantastic Canadian instance, and I’m British! Big love!
Welcome everyone.
There’s some Facebook ‘buy Canadian’ groups with over half a million people in - this server occasionally comes up there too when people are looking for Canadian hosted discussion sites to ditch big American tech like reddit or Facebook groups.
A Facebook exodus!
Thank you for informing me as that brings a smile to my face.
Hi! If you need reliable canadian hosting for lemmy.ca let me know. I am a co-founder of a Canadian Cloud and I will be happy to provide the infra for free. We are happy to help canada going out of American Corporation. If you are interested, let me know!
Let’s talk =)
Let the collaborations begin ;)
Let us know if you get this setup!
Can I pay you in maple syrup?
rare hockey cards only, chum
That’s almost more stable than the canadian dollars these days, I might consider ;)
Supplied from beautiful Quebec!
There’s great fishing in Quebec.
Its a great time to join. I think many of us have been lurkers in reddit and now with the tides of change we need to also make Lemmy active, especially the Canadian sites
Update: we just hit 9.2k! Keep up the surge folks! Keep Shadow busy tonight!
Doesn’t the new server support at least 10x-100x the current capacity? I think it was a huge machine compared to the old one. I guess storage is separate.
That’s a lot of potential wiggle room. 92k to 920k potential registered users while currently LW has 174k, that’s one crazy hardware upgrade. The servers will become cheaper to run in the future as we put to use our economies of scale.
Now that you spell out these numbers, probably not 100x. 😂
Why not sh.itjust.works?
Your instance doesn’t really matter that much but personally, I feel like the bigger instances will be the ones more prone to enshitification.
The admins over here are Canadian and have set up a non-profit to keep everything they’re doing above board, so I like them. :)
Check out https://fedecan.ca/en/
Feddit.uk are also using a nice opencollective funding model, so it seems like these projects are nicely decentivised against a rogue admin selling the domain or selling the actual server
We can promote both! I just know Lemmy.ca more.
Why not lemmygrad, hexbear, or .ml?
because of the tankies lol. don’t pretend you don’t know about the reputation those instances have.
Yeaaa, I made my account on .ml a while ago. Looking forward to when migrating accounts is supported to move home to .ca
Tanky?
“communists” that are mainly concerned with defending everything that the modern Russian and Chinese governments do and shitting on everything America does. i can vibe with the America bashing, especially right now, but China and Russia also generally suck in many of the ways that America is currently getting worse in.
Nothing to add other than “yup”, though with the caveat that if you block some users and their pro-Russia/China posts, its quite a peaceful place
Those aren’t Canadian to start…
it’s hard to tell a Canadian from a non-Canadian on the internet. It’s not like there’s a Captcha test for it. Can you imagine
Captcha: What is Madame Soleil’s first name?
Idk. So I guess it is working properly.
I pictured something more like this.
