I think the announcement post should have stayed pinned longer. I waited a long time for your Pixelfed instance. One evening, I did a random Lemmy check and saw the announcement post pinned at the top of my feed. The next day, it was gone. I’m sure there are some people who are interested in a Pixelfed instance run by the Lemmy.ca team and may not even realize it’s already live.

I’ve been alternating between the mobile website and the official Android app since the launch of Pixelfed.ca. I’m leaning towards the website due to some deficiencies in the official app:

• Lots of random crashes. I can’t reliably replicate this, so I can’t say for sure what causes it. I’m using a Google Pixel 9 Pro on Android 15.
• There might be some user error here, but I can’t get the media editor to work when creating posts. On the New Post screen, I enabled the media editor in the settings menu. I am not given any kind of editing options after selecting an image to upload.
• No suggestions when typing hashtags.
• No global feed.

Overall, I’m really enjoying my Pixelfed experience despite the growing pains associated with using a new instance.

Is that the reason why it’s hosted overseas? I think it’s interesting that an instance “intended to serve citizens and residents of British Columbia” isn’t hosted in BC.

Yes! It’s finally here! My first experience with Pixelfed was back in 2019 on an instance which got shut down shortly after I signed up. It really demonstrated the importance of picking the “right” instance. Given Fedecan’s track record with Lemmy.ca, I know Pixelfed.ca won’t suffer the same fate. 😊

I think you’re being too generous. I’m probably not alone in saying that a 10% price increase gives me 0% interest in buying a new laptop.

You guys are fast. You updated to the latest version before I even knew about its existence. I love this instance.

Exciting. This brings us one step closer to Pixelfed and Friendica hosted by Fedecan.

Does anyone have experience using Friendica primarily as an RSS reader? Could it function as an alternative to web-based RSS readers like Feedly?

Thanks for the reply. I am particularly interested in Fedecan’s expansion into other decentralized/federated platforms. I know the timing is dependent on the server migration, but I was wondering if there’s a tentative list of what may be supported.

Apologies if this sounds impatient, but is there any kind of update on the status of Fedecan? This was announced six months ago and there’s been radio silence since then.

What if I never used Meta in the first place? What does that make me? Am I a virtue signaller too?

In Vancouver, Canada, we have a journalist named St. John Alexander who pronounces his first name as “Sinjin.” I heard him say it on TV and it sounded weird. His profile even mentions it.

He’s often asked about his name. St. John is originally British and is pronounced “Sinjin.” His parents discovered it in Charlotte Bronte’s novel Jane Eyre.

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I wasn’t sure if Lemmuy-UI in the results list was a typo or an alternative interface. Now I know. 😄

Just the other day, I was thinking about how nice it would be for the team behind lemmy.ca to expand into other Fediverse services. I’m glad to see it’s on the roadmap. The future is looking brighter for non-corporate social media in Canada.

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No! I recently started going back to the office, so the Google One VPN was an easy way for me to bypass the restrictions on my company’s Wi-Fi network.

The title mentions Ubuntu and Fedora, but I ran cat /proc/sys/vm/max_map_count on my openSUSE Tumbleweed system and it also uses 1048576.

I no longer use Linux Mint, but I really enjoyed the decade I spent on it. The kernel change seems like a good move considering Mint is targeted towards desktop users.

I use OpenWRT on my Linksys WRT3200ACM because I used to have a cable connection that suffered from bufferbloat. The SQM feature made a huge improvement. I eventually switched to a fiber connection from a different ISP which does not suffer from bufferbloat, but I kept OpenWRT on my router.