Welcome, new users!

There has been a steady trickle of new users here today, and in the past little while, mostly due to the bad decisions that reddit is currently making.

Anyways, welcome! Feel free to look around, and if you have any questions about anything lemmy related, feel free to ask!

Also, if you feel up to it, introduce yourself in the comments below!

edit: Here’s a nice getting started guide for lemmy: tech.michaelaltfield.net/…/lemmy-migration-find-s…

i should have added it here a while ago!

RandomDude,

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!

smorks,
@smorks@lemmy.ca avatar

there should be an icon that will give you a link to the rss feed:

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/2616062f-5dca-4575-b9d0-9ddc4e2590fe.png

IronKrill, (edited )

Hey again, been a while since I posted in this thread! Was hoping to clarify a bit on the Lemmy.ca rules if I could. I have two questions:

  1. What is the stance on NSFL/gore content? Allowed, discouraged, banned?
  2. We have the rule “No porn.” This sounds simple, but what is classified as porn. Is all nudity porn? Is nudity alright in an artistic context such as the Statue of David? What about a medical/injury setting, or a non-pornographic setting such as “public freakout” videos?

I ask these questions as I moderate !roadcam which could have both of these sorts of content posted to it, if not often. I am unsure if I want to ban that content outright, but it would be handy to know the instance rules first.

smorks,
@smorks@lemmy.ca avatar

Sorry for the delay, I talked this over with the other admins, and here’s what we decided:

  1. NSFL/gore content is not allowed.
  2. That’s a tough one. Artistic should be fine. Medical/injury should also be fine, as long as it’s not wading into NSFL/gore stuff.

Hope that helps!

IronKrill, (edited )

Not at all, it’s a tough question. Thank you so much for the answers, I will revise my community’s rules to stay in line with that then. :)

UncleBadTouch,
@UncleBadTouch@lemmy.ca avatar

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

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/471a9117-3111-49a3-a986-37e13237b6ab.jpeg

BruceDoh,

This here’s my birds https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/e085090e-fd24-494e-bb26-7964a0bdc2f5.jpeg

UncleBadTouch,
@UncleBadTouch@lemmy.ca avatar

so friggin cute! i miss having chickens. no more free breakfast!

venuswasaflytrap,

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.

ashley,

It’s like email but Reddit style

venuswasaflytrap,

Yeah, I read that before, but I didn’t really understand what that meant.

ashley,

Email is federated as well. You sign up to a server (ex. Gmail.com), then you use and interact only with gmail.com, but you can then tell gmail to send an email to another server such as outlook, and it’s the same for their users.

Difference being the content is public here, whereas email isn’t, and Lemmy also uses ActivityPub which is a standard to forward messages between servers.

CrimsonFlash,

That makes way more sense!

The only roadblock I see is how difficult it is to follow communities outside your main instance. It would be nice if there was a log-in-as option so you can easily subscribe if you come across a page that isn’t a part of your instance. Right now you have to either search it on your main, or copy the url over (which I’ve seen doesn’t work all the time, but could be because of server load.)

cygnus,
@cygnus@lemmy.ca avatar

Mastodon makes it easy to follow someone on a different instance, so I expect it’s only a matter of time that Lemmy adds that functionality (especially now with the influx of new users)

MarkG_108,

One thing I find confusing is the notification bell icon. I notice that even if I check it, it still registers the same number of notifications that it had done previously. This number never seems to go down. What’s with that?

smorks,
@smorks@lemmy.ca avatar

you have to manually mark them as “read”, unless you’re replying. don’t think there’s a way to change that currently?

shinigamiookamiryuu,

Hello everyone. It’s nice to meet everyone, it’s so warm here. You may call me Lenny since it’s the real nickname of mine people have started referring to me as. I’m a 23-year-old woman from Vermont who works for a reporting place (sort of) and likes art and cryptography. I’m on both Lemmy and Reddit but Lemmy has truly grown on me. Thanks for having me here, and feel free to ask questions.

daychilde,

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 :)

glandrid,

Being Canadian is, like, a state of mind, eh. Welcome

daychilde,

Wouldn’t it be a province of mind? :)

Sigmatics,

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

Burstar, (edited )
@Burstar@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Can somebody explain to me why this is “Canadian Server, run by Canadians”… but located in the Netherlands? https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/510a7d78-c1d3-4e23-bf6c-607574f149a2.png

Edit: thanks for the informative responses!

smorks,
@smorks@lemmy.ca avatar

@TruckBC @Shadow i’m guessing this is because it’s now using cloudflare?

Shadow,
@Shadow@lemmy.ca avatar

Correct! The server running this and all data is stored in Canada.

Here’s a blurb from a doc I’m working on:

Lemmy.ca is hosted in Canada at OVH in Beauharnois, QC with all data on a dedicated server. Backups are PGP encrypted and pushed to the OVH backup service, however these will be moved off-site in the near future.

We use Cloudflare as a security and performance layer in front of the server. They accept the traffic for Lemmy.ca through a worldwide network of ingestion points, scrub it of abusive traffic, cache the images, and pass it through an encrypted tunnel to our server. This means they can see in plain text the data sent between us including your credentials, posts, comments and images. You can read more about their policies at www.cloudflare.com/trust-hub/.

deadly4u,

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?

SturgiesYrFase,
@SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml avatar

What’s your favourite sci-fi era? I’m quite partial to golden age, despite it’s many many maaaannnny flaws. Just something about the idea that the author would set Mr Average Joe on an adventure, which he’s quite prepared for, because everyone knows how to navigate in space.

deadly4u,

Golden Age, based on your description, seems to fit the description of a lot of my favourite books. I have a hard time picking favourites, so here are a few series, plus a few singles, I absolutely loved:

  • Bobiverse, Dennis E. Taylor
  • Expeditionary Force, Craig Alanson
  • Red Rising, Pierce Brown
  • Foundation, Isaac Asimov
  • The Expanse, James S. A. Corey
  • Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsky
  • Project Hail Mary & The Martian, Andy Weir
shortwavesurfer,
@shortwavesurfer@lemmy.ca avatar

For me its

  • The Martian, and Artemis by Andy Weir
  • Termination Shock by Neil Stephenson
  • 2001, 2010, 2061, 3001 Odyssey series by Arthur C Clarke
  • lots of David Brin
  • lots of Greg Bear
  • One Second After (series) by William Forstchen
  • The Wool Omnibus (series) by Hugh Howey
  • Beacon 23 by Hugh Howey
  • After Sundown by Linda Howard
  • Solar Flare by Larry Burkett
  • etc

I really enjoy books with a solar flare componet due to my being a ham radio op. I also love apocolypse books of nearly any type. Just no zombies as they freak me out

bgb_ca,

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.

butterslaps,
@butterslaps@lemmy.ca avatar

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

MzPhalange,

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

n_emoo,

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?

smorks,
@smorks@lemmy.ca avatar

i’m the admin. i’m a software developer, living in Winnipeg, MB. I spend a lot of time watching my son play baseball in the spring/summer, own a dog that sometimes acts like a cat.

Not sure what makes this server different from others? I will do my best to make this place a safe, welcoming space for all. Will probably need some help along the way as we grow.

It’s currently run on a VPS on lunanode, a canadian provider. I’m currently self funding it, but plan on accepting donations to help run it as well.

likelytrash,
@likelytrash@lemmy.ca avatar

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

smorks,
@smorks@lemmy.ca avatar

it doesn’t look that way.

i mainly just visit lemmy in my browser on my phone, works well enough for me.

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