Users coming here from reddit might know that the main canada subreddit and offshoots such as metacanada and canada_sub are havens for the far-right. I’m concerned that as Lemmy.ca is growing, a small number of far-right posters might be able to influence the culture that Lemmy.ca develops....
I’ve been talking to many people about the controversy with Reddit, why I left it and why I went onto Lemmy, Kbin and Mastadon instead. Some of my friends have commented that the control is still a problem as other platforms and it is all dependent on who owns the software, who owns the hardware, who are the admins, who are...
I’m totally cool with the federation with lemmyNSFW instance and actually I made an account over there so I could subscribe to my favorite porn subs....
I’m starting to understand the whole federated feed thing, but I’d like more control over it. E.g., I’m on a national instance, so I get every little small town community popping up. Do I just have to block them as I go until I don’t see them anymore, or is there a better way?
I’m looking for communities to subscribe to so I went to the Communities page then selected All but I can’t sort the listed communities. My cursor changes to a finger when I hover over the Subscribers column but nothing happens when I click on it or any of the other columns…
Is there a list of blocked instances somewhere? I was trying to interact with a thread from lemmygrad i found on lemmy.ml but could not get it to come up in search. This makes me assume its blocked
AFAIK matrix.to/#/#lo_canada:mozilla.org is the biggest Canada themed matrix chat room. It’s not partnered with Lemmy.ca or anyone and I believe they were asked before and didn’t want to partner up....
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....
So if I look at a community’s page on the instance proper, like: lemmy.ml/c/artificial_intel . There are posts there that are not reflected when I look at it from lemmy.ca: lemmy.ca/c/[email protected] a post that I’ve posted from Lemmy.ca!...
We have beehaw.org listed as a linked instance. Similarly, they have lemmy.ca listed, yet when i try to access one of their communities like lemmy.ca/c/[email protected] i get an error message