It’s been on the back-burner for a bit but it’s time that I get on it and register our operation as a on-profit organization. We will be registering under the BC Societies Act. Completing this registration will allow for opening up a bank account under the organization’s name and reopen donations and have the previously...
Would be interested in knowing what kind of future projects we’re thinking about?
Other than a potential matrix server, I do not currently have anything in mind. The future is unpredictable.
An example of a non-profit effort that I took on in the past is COVID PPE 3D printing with volunteer community printers. If something like that was needed for pandemic or disaster relief again would be nice to not have to go through the trouble of spinning up a new non-profit.
I think we can definitely work with Canadian Open Source Communication Association. Maybe swap out Communication for Community.
I keep hearing upvote and downvotes doesn’t matter on fediverse. How does the “Top of the day” work? Is it just comments on a post? Thanks for clarifying.
Thanks for the kind words! @Shadow has been amazing.
You guys are amazing and I’m more than happy with the subscribed donation I’ve given to your instance.
Just so you know with the transition to the new team all prior donation subscriptions have been cancelled and we’ve yet to set up a new system for donations.
We’ll let you all know when we have a new system up and running right now but it’s not high priority as we’re well funded for at least the next 6 to 9 months if we don’t have explosive growth.
I’ll keep that in mind, and I’ve just had a realization, we can set up all the donation options and just not “cash out” until we’re determined non-profit status and how we’re going to set up the financial side of it.
It’s not totally accurate, so professional oversize drivers don’t trust it and double check signage by looking on Google Street view, and still check the physical signs as they drive.
Even the one on DriveBC apparently has some errors, and so do the routes that you get with your oversize permit occasionally. At the end of the day, it’s ultimately the driver’s responsibility to make sure every overpass/tunnel/snowshed etc is tall enough for their load.
The current funds are enough to operate it at it’s current capacity for ~11 months. Once we get to accepting donations again and figure out how to set up our accounting, I would definitely like to see a growing contingency reserve fund built up to be ready for future unexpected growth or unexpected slowdown in donations.
We will continue to be transparent in a similar format to this but split the remaining balance in a operating fund and reserve fund.
Ever contribution is greatly appreciated even if it’s just 10 cents a month (please don’t actually donate just 10 cents, payment fees are more than that). We currently don’t have plans of doing flairs but if we ever do we will keep what you’ve mentioned in mind.
$137.xx right now per month. Moving images to Object Storage will slowly add to that.
We figure even without significant efficiency improvements for Lemmy we should be able to handle easily 25,000 users or so without adding more resources to that.
We asked him to stick around for as long as he wants in whatever capacity he wants. Good to have his input for a longer transition period so we can carry on his way of doing things.
There will be a huge drop off to drop as part of the transition process to the new admin team we have paused donations at this time.
We’re on the fence if we want to accept further donations before registering as a not-for-profit to avoid any of the funds having to run through my personal bank account.
Hi all, Is there a way for me to block a particular domain no matter in which community it finds itself in? There are some news outlets that I just don’t want to be polluted by....
Now it’s a matter of sustaining and slow growth. Hopefully. Best thing you can do to see Lemmy succeed is participate: comment, post, doomscroll All+Top Hou ;)...
I’ll have to ask Kamscan how he’s not being caught up by the rate limit and pass it on to my contact at the ministry. Explains why I was the one that updated on Twitter that the highway 3 closure earlier today has been cleared…
We’ll share this post with other instance admins once there’s a bit more discussion, and maybe seeing this will get the ball rolling for other instances to have similar discussions.
Is this just me or is anyone else having issues where suddenly when clicking on a community or post they are logged out? These seems new as of the 0.18.2 update....
I’ve contacted them to see if they would be willing to transfer it to us. Figured I’d have better luck as a Lemmy admin then just someone random. The domain name is under $20 a year so it’s a non issue.
My lemmy apps can no longer connect to the API (Memmy, mlem, thunder, wefwef etc) unless I manually navigate to a community, however won’t accept requests to make posts or comments. Anyone else having this issue?...
I can’t remember exactly but @Shadow is the one that takes care of those things, I think he’s got it set up to backup every 8 hours? I’m taking a rapid crash course in sysadmin but I’m not really ready to start poking at production server stuff yet.
In my opinion the “drama” was a critical part of immediately drawing attention to the voulnerabilty and bringing it to the attention of most instance admins very quickly.
Few things that have been added on my to-do list that I’ve learned from this.
We need more backend man power for coverage.
Major instances, and probably all instances should partner with another instance that’s in an opposite time zone for emergency response. Ideally having partnered admins and backend admins with no more than 8 hours difference between each one for 24 hour reliable coverage would be ideal. Partnered admins should in my opinion have each other’s phone numbers and have it set to bypass do not disturb.
We need to make sure users know how to contact admins off Lemmy for emergencies, as well as ensure that admins are tagged when a situation like this develops. (To my knowledge no lemmy.ca admin was tagged when this started to unfold.)
There’s more thoughts but I can’t remember them on 5 hours of sleep 😴
They been redirecting to lemon party and some weird video. Do not go to the website. This is the admin that been hacked: https://i.imgur.com/GbYyrBL.jpg...
As you may have already noticed, 3 new admins have been added. Welcome @TruckBC , @Shadow , and @Jarcode! There are also many more people that are helping behind the scenes as well. They have many years of experience moderating various subreddits, and I believe that they can bring lemmy.ca to the next level....
Lemmy.ca is hosted on OVHcloud as they have a Canadian data center. If you’re not specifically looking for a Canadian server, there’s many other options that are priced more attractively.
Non-Profit Registration: Name suggestions.
It’s been on the back-burner for a bit but it’s time that I get on it and register our operation as a on-profit organization. We will be registering under the BC Societies Act. Completing this registration will allow for opening up a bank account under the organization’s name and reopen donations and have the previously...
What're the odds lemmy.ca has a sister mastodon instance?
I like the admins here, so if you’re running a mastodon instance, I think I’d choose that one. Yes/no/planned/maybe/aliens?
Public asked to comment on Highway 1 upgrades from Langley to Abbotsford - Aldergrove Star (www.aldergrovestar.com)
Growing B.C. wildfire closes Highway 20 | Winnipeg Free Press (www.winnipegfreepress.com)
Non-Paywall Article
Up/Down votes doesn't matter?
I keep hearing upvote and downvotes doesn’t matter on fediverse. How does the “Top of the day” work? Is it just comments on a post? Thanks for clarifying.
New user interfaces available on lemmy.ca!
Hello everyone!...
Place an ad for Lemmy on r/place?
Please see sh.itjust.works/post/1429723 for more discussion about our ad....
B.C. transportation minister vows to raise fines, recover repair costs after overpass strike (bc.ctvnews.ca)
June 2023 financial update for lemmy.ca
This is a little late, but I figure that it’s better late than never!...
Can I block a particular domain?
Hi all, Is there a way for me to block a particular domain no matter in which community it finds itself in? There are some news outlets that I just don’t want to be polluted by....
Well, the new user bump has passed! (lemmy.ca)
Now it’s a matter of sustaining and slow growth. Hopefully. Best thing you can do to see Lemmy succeed is participate: comment, post, doomscroll All+Top Hou ;)...
this link takes you to a random Web1 website (wiby.me)
52% of people in B.C. are within $200 of not being able to pay their bills: survey | CTV News (bc.ctvnews.ca)
Social media's reliability in emergencies questioned after Twitter change hampers DriveBC | CBC News (www.cbc.ca)
Projects at Delta's Annacis Island sewage plant to cost billions (www.delta-optimist.com)
[Lemmy.ca Discussion] What should we do about Lemmit.online
@bot has been subject to multiple reports from our users over the last while....
Random log outs
Is this just me or is anyone else having issues where suddenly when clicking on a community or post they are logged out? These seems new as of the 0.18.2 update....
Any Canadian based Matrix servers? Or servers associated with lemmy.ca?
Was just interested in joining Matrix and since my lemmy account was on a Canadian server was wondering if my Matrix account could be too.
Apps no longer connect to lemmy.ca API
My lemmy apps can no longer connect to the API (Memmy, mlem, thunder, wefwef etc) unless I manually navigate to a community, however won’t accept requests to make posts or comments. Anyone else having this issue?...
lemmy.blahaj.zone Also Compromised
The site is down for now but do not try to login into it.
Lemmy.world is compromised
They been redirecting to lemon party and some weird video. Do not go to the website. This is the admin that been hacked: https://i.imgur.com/GbYyrBL.jpg...
New Admins, Server Upgraded
As you may have already noticed, 3 new admins have been added. Welcome @TruckBC , @Shadow , and @Jarcode! There are also many more people that are helping behind the scenes as well. They have many years of experience moderating various subreddits, and I believe that they can bring lemmy.ca to the next level....