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!

Jode,

I’m still not fully grasping this. Am I supposed to make accounts for multiple instances?

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,
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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

SturgiesYrFase,
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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.

AFallingAnvil,
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Hi folks!

I’m Anvil, a student in his final term of an I.T. program. I moved to Ontario for school, so it’s been a bit of a wild ride. I’m hoping to find a good Reddit alternative for after RIF goes down due to corporate greed.

General interests include games (PC, switch, PS5), books (fantasy and sci-fi mostly), movies, and music. Big fan of board games and TTRPGs too ()

Here’s to the future!

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,
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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.

Bo7a,

Hello from the forests of Quebec. I’m a huge fan of decentralization and open source tools. I will be hanging around here and watching reddit implode from afar. I was one of the digg exodus crowd, so I know that there is no way I can live without a link aggregator and discussion platform, lemmy seems like an instant win to me!

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? :)

blitzen,

Hello fellow humans. I’m actually from a different CA, California. But I’m a believer that you should choose an instance based upon the administration not on topic, and this one feels much more in line with my sensibilities than the other large ones. Sorry to stereotype, but the conversations feel kinder here than elsewhere (even by the already nice standards of lemmy instances overall.)

I don’t much like sharing personal type information online, so I hope you’ll forgive my brevity. I don’t work in tech, but have had a lifelong interest in it so I feel right at home here at the ground floor of a new community.

UncleBadTouch,
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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!

w111,

Here from Reddit, and this is looking like a great new space. Cheers!

jadero,

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!

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,
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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)

Sirquacksalot,

Hey fellow (mostly) Canadians! Reddit Refugee of 13 years, this is my first Lemmy experience. I originally made a Lemmy.world account, but moved here as I felt more comfortable having the server hosted in Canada for data integrity/security.

Seems like a neat place, the distributed/“federated” stuff was a bit confusing at first, but seems neat. I guess we’ll see how big the migration from Reddit to here is.

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

smorks,
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it doesn’t look that way.

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

Gleddified,

Hello from Canada’s best and most important and relevant province!

Manitoba!

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