(11) Also don’t be afraid to curate the feed the block button is your friend, don’t like certain users, communities or instances baaam block, there’s your peace of mind.

I've been here for awhile and have a pretty good understanding of how federation works. Number (3) was a very concise way to explain how the All feed works. I sort of knew but that really helped me understand.

Number (7), I will suggest the use of the cross-posting feature. Post to the larger community for engagement but also cross-post to the smaller communities to help them grow. Quiet communities are a cat-and-mouse game where people don't post or comment because no one else is. The more people start to engage, the more others will start to engage.

Tip: sort by "Top 12 hours or 24hours". This is equivalent to reddit's "hot"

Lurking has been my primary activity on Reddit. I shall try to contribute more.

Shucks

Yeah, well, fuck you

I remember I asked a question on reddit about how I can go about getting water to be testing in parts per a trillion.... Lol half the comments told me to fuck off and some of them DM'd me and they told me they would lynch me... maybe its cause Im Black and I did post pictures of myself onto my reddit account.

But wooow....

I didnt even get the question answered at all!

How do I find out where to donate to the instances Im on please?

Welcome! :)

Going off of what people have mentioned in the registration applications, it is a combination of

• wanting to support Canadian, and avoiding American tech companies (due to tariffs and other concerns)
• concerns with how big tech has changed for the worse these past few months
• Reddit's recent actions, such as banning (and then reversing) a bunch of communities and the recent paywall announcement
• learning about it for the first time and being excited about the concept

The first point is why lemmy.ca has seen more relative growth this week than the others, but a lot of fediverse instances have seen growth recently

We're pretty reasonable with moderation here. The way Lemmy works, mod actions are recorded publicly for transparency. You can access those records here, but as a warning before you open the page, "Some deleted posts may contain disturbing or adult material": https://lemmy.ca/modlog

So far we've only banned users site wide when it was a consistent problem (ex. spam bot, harassing other users). However, we do need to remove comments that are clearly against the law in Canada, else we couldn't keep operating.

It really comes down to what the comment is. If you look through the threads on here, a lot of people are already expressing how they feel, or what Canada's/Canadians' response should be. Where it might be a problem is if someone says they're going to do something violent/illegal, or call for someone else to do it

Hopefully that makes sense?

You will be less likely to be banned. Still, be reasonable, tactful and don't be a dick about it, even if I get that you came here to express your genuine feelings.

"Kill [person of interest]" is off limits here and on many other servers, but there are ways you can describe how your frustration in ways that aren't illegal or personally charged. "Fuck [person of interest]" is nearly universally allowed here. Even if not banned, the outcome of whether you are upvoted to heaven or downvoted to hell will depend on the person and the context.

Just save it.. and when the time comes... we do what we gotta do

Purchase a long rifle and shoot it often. I say this as a staunch pacifist. Having a weapon and using it are two different things. For a thousand reasons, if a genuine war broke out it would likely destroy America. Unfortunately, likely taking Canada with it.

Regardless, be armed and be prepared. It is not as bleak as you may think, even in the worst case scenario. Best case scenario nothing happens and you take up hunting or target shooting as a hobby!

There's one way to find out.

I can totally relate to you in those regards.

Welcome!

Welcome :)

Welcome 😊

Glad to have you here!

If you think of the "fediverse" as being like email, an instance would be like an email provider. So you can get an email address from google, protonmail, microsoft, etc, but you can still communicate with other accounts from any of the providers via the standardized protocol. In the same way you can join any particular instance and communicate with other instances.

For sure! If it helps, we put together this page on what the word means more generally (for all types of fediverse websites, and not just Lemmy). The infographic style images might be helpful

https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-started

For lemmy.ca specifically, you can think of the entire website as being one 'instance' of a larger network of similar websites. It is possible to shut down the 'federation' and just exist as our own isolated forum (similar to Reddit), but that defeats the purpose of running this kind of website.

This page should also help you see how it affects a Lemmy website like ours

https://fedecan.ca/...

Welcome!

Welcome! Hope you like it here.

FYI, feddit.nl exists too. You could create an alt account on that site if you ever find the ping times to Canada too slow for your liking :)

Totally!

We were planning to do another census this winter, but we got busy with the new servers and spinning up new platforms.

You might have seen other comments asking about Pixelfed and Friendica. Pixelfed is to instagram in the way that Lemmy is to Reddit, and we're in the process of setting up a Canadian instance of Pixelfed right now. If all goes well, we may get more new people joining through there

Welcome :)

Welcome aboard!

Thank you for posting!

Pixelfed soon. We have a domain registered and I've started provisioning the infra.

Friendica isn't on our todo list yet, not sure if it will be or not since none of us are regular Facebook users.

Edit: Enough people are asking about friendica that I promise to investigate more after pixelfed is up.

We're in the process of getting pixelfed together :) see Shadow's comment

Welcome! Glad to have you here

Welcome :)

*waves vigorously*

Heya, neighbour!

Welcome :)

👋

It made me happy to read that, thank you for writing it. Especially this part:

But my father taught me, and I bet yours did too, you don't do the right thing because it guarantees the right outcome. You do it so you can look in the mirror at the end of the day. Thanks for helping me look in the mirror.

Welcome to lemmy.ca, please let us know if there's anything we can help with 😊

Welcome! I think you'll find that the clunkiness dissolves into the background pretty quickly. Peoples' biggest stumbling block after signup is often that you can find communities with the same name on different websites, and that kind of offends some folks' sensibilities. Coming from OGFT, though, I think you can already appreciate that Reddit had multiple communities fighting over names anyway.

The admins here have been absolute power houses, so I know they'll be only too quick to provide any help that you need, or answer questions about the site or nuances about the underlying tech. And some of us regulars have been around here for a few years now, and even predate the site, thanks to the way federated services can communicate across site types (I started on Mastodon, for instance, and have been kicking the tires on nodeBB).

It's a fun little experiment in internet anarchism.

Good on you. Most OGFT canucks fit right in here. 🍁

Welcome 😊

Ditto!

Welcome back 😊

Any communities worth looking at?

If you're looking for communities related to those recent events, then !buycanadian@lemmy.ca and !canada@lemmy.ca come to mind as being relevant.

Otherwise a lot of new communities have emerged (or migrated) from 2 years ago. We have this guide now on finding communities, you could try the lemmyverse suggestion with topics you're looking into

https://fedecan.ca/...

Welcome nonetheless 😄

Well I challenge every newbie to create 72 new posts over the first 1 to 3 h here!

Welcome 😊

I deleted my reddit account a while ago. Sometimes I still lurk, but it hasn't been the same lately. I was a redditor since 2010.

Welcome to lemmy! I hope you like it here!

Well, now I must give it a try!

Welcome 😊

👋

Welcome :) Let us know if you need help with anything!

Welcome, glad to have you here! 😊

I'm not sure if there was a particularly viral post (aside from a few mentions of r/BuyCanadian), but I know we've also been mentioned in comment sections all over. Copying from another comment:

Going off of what people have mentioned in the registration applications, it is a combination of

• wanting to support Canadian, and avoiding American tech companies (due to tariffs and other concerns)
• concerns with how big tech has changed for the worse these past few months
• Reddit's recent actions, such as banning (and then reversing) a bunch of communities and the recent paywall announcement
• learning about it for the first time and being excited about the concept

The first point is why lemmy.ca has seen more relative growth this week than the others, but a lot of fediverse instances have seen growth recently

Also, assuming this is a Canadian small town, comment in this thread and I'll add it to the big list

https://lemmy.ca/...

Welcome!

If you open the website in a web browser, you should see a 'Create Community' button.

A more detailed step by step:

Name: ex. 'vancouver'

• it will appear in the link (c/Vancouver), and can't be changed

Display Name: ex. Vancouver or Metro Vancouver etc.

• you can keep changing this, but keep it relatively short

Icon & Banner are recommended

Sidebar for a description of the community and any rules are recommended

Under languages, select whichever languages users should select from when posting (ex. Undetermined, English, French)

Then you can post in places like !communitypromo@lemmy.ca and !newcommunities@lemmy.world so people know about the new community

Then keep posting to it till it gets rolling :)

With that said, if there's no activity in the small community, I'd post directly in !Canada. As we grow and we get more people, I think we'll naturally break out into the smaller geographical communities. I think this is valid even for provinces at this point.

Welcome!

We also have a few custom front ends, one of which is https://old.lemmy.ca/

Since it's developed by a third party, it's likely not as stable as the main interface, but it's fun to look at 😄

We haven't revisited our donation methods yet, but we will at some point.

If you have a moment, could you share why you'd prefer to have Librapay / Open collective over the existing options? No wrong answers, I just wanted to copy it into our notes for when we revisit all that

The techno-authoritarians are making their play for absolute power now. They're going to suppress opposition in general. They spent years getting everyone to use their tools, and this is why.

Welcome!

It's nice to see the word of mouth working, I've seen a lot of mentions recently of people being recommended here by friends and family members

Happy to have you here 😊

Glad to have you. Enjoy your time here!

Beinvenue!

Bonjour, et bienvenue 😊

Welcome! 😊

Welcome :)

Welcome!

Still mostly hanging out at Reddit but I see the writing on the wall and am trying to at the very least diversify, and hopefully make a full switch soon

This is true for a lot of the new users, despite what the memes may suggest 😄

Is there a particular community on reddit that you'd like to see more of on here?

Welcome 😊

Oooh, that's a good feature request but not something we could easily do.

Bonjour! 😊

Welcome 😊

Definitely check out the guides above, and drop by in !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca if you have any issues!

So, there are a couple of issues with 'streamlining', the big one being that Lemmy isn't a single service, controlled by a single entity. It's a website engine, that lets anyone create a reddit-like content aggregator service. There are a thousand "Lemmys" out there, each one owned and operated independently from each other. Most of them are just engaged in an implicit content free-trade agreement.

So, how do you streamline that?

The apps are also made by whoever wants to make them. And none of them are made by the development team behind the Lemmy software.

How do you streamline that?

And, importantly, do you want to? Because stream-lining means centralizing ownership of it all, which leads us right back to the kind of situation that every major social platform is currently experiencing: taking away control from the user.

The tech isn't the barrier. It's the communication. People keep saying "join Lemmy!" as if it's a place you can go to, and not 1000 different places.

I use both iOS and Android to access lemmy, I think Boost on Android is the best app, and I use mlem on iOS.

I had issues with jerboa when I switched over, I don't think I would recommend it to newcomers.

Kichae did a good job of explaining some of the limitations, and I also agree with you that there's more we can do for user-friendliness while still respecting decentralization.

One of the things we've done is put together the guides above, which I'm hoping can help reduce confusion on how this new platform works and what the differences / benefits are. If they DO help, then one solution could be to share the guides around and hope that it acts as the first introduction for people. There are a lot of confusing resources out there (ex. that infographic that gets posted around), so I'm hoping that over time we can improve these guides over time to be as helpful as possible.

We'd love some feedback on the guides if you have a chance to go through them! In particular, these seem relevant to the areas you were confused about:

• Quick overview of Lemmy (goes over account creation)
• Where to find mobile apps (discusses why there are multiple, and how to pick one
• Quick overview of the Fediverse (goes over why decentralization is key to the Fediverse, and important for fixing the problems with old social media)

In addition, if you have any thoughts on the order of the guide pages and areas that are still confusing

The Lemmy software itself is also open-source, and there's often discussion about what can be improved. Similarly, there are a few other Lemmy compatible projects in the works that are doing things slightly differently, such as Piefed and Mbin. As you get settled in and familiar with things, these communities might be of interest to you:

• !lemmy@lemmy.ml
• !fediverse@lemmy.world

Welcome to lemmy.ca / the fediverse 😊

Welcome :)

If anyone is curious, the post sorting calculations are also public (the code is open source). As a summary:

https://join-lemmy.org/...

• Active uses the post votes, and latest comment time (limited to two days).
• Hot uses the post votes, and the post published time.
• Scaled is similar to Hot, but gives a boost to smaller / less active communities.

No more hidden algorithms was a big one for me. I personally use 'Scaled', and sometimes flip to the other ones to take a peek

Welcome 😊

Welcome friend the server is hosted in Canada!

So, Lemmy is software that lets you build an off-the-shelf content aggregation website, similar to how Wordpress lets you build an off-the-shelf blog. There are dozens of moderate to large websites running Lemmy, and hundreds of small or tiny ones running it.

Each one of these websites can, if the users and admins enable it, subscribe to communities hosted on other Lemmy-based websites, which lets them comment on posts in those communities, or even make their own posts to them.

Because this intercommunication allows users to treat remotely-hosted communities as if they are local to the user's website, it's common for people to think of the network of Lemmy-based websites as a signular entity. In this model, each of the independent websites running Lemmy gets called an "instance".

The same terminology is used for Mastodon-based websites, and other websites that allow for similar auto-syndication of content that creates a simulacrum of a centralized content environment. So, a "Lemmy instance" is a "website running Lemmy that is participating in active content syndication", a "Mastodon instance" is "a website running Mastodon that is participating in active content syndication", etc. You can replace "Mastodon" or "Lemmy" with "mbin", "Friendica", "PieFed", "Misskey", "Hubzilla", "PeerTube", "PixelFed", "BookWyrm", "FunkWhale", "nodeBB", or any number of other website engines that are participating in this type of ecosystem.

Welcome!

I'd recommend looking through these two guides / infographics as they are a good introduction

What is the fediverse

How does Lemmy work, in detail

If you consider the network of email providers, then "gmail" could be considered one "instance" of the network. You can use it as a self-contained service, but the strength comes from being a part of the wider network.

So you can use lemmy.ca as if it was an isolated Canadian version of reddit, but the strength comes from being able to access communities from all over

Welcome! 😊

If you have any questions while getting settled, feel free to post in !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca

Would you be able to share an example? (Short description or screenshot is fine)

We might be able to clarify or add it to the guides in the future

Hello and welcome!

Elbows up!

Since Blaze's answer is comprehensive, I'm linking it here as well for anyone that comes across this: https://lemmy.ca/post/40668574/15756000

You are currently labeled as a bot. You can change that in your account settings, there should be a checkbox "Bot account", uncheck it :)

It's not currently there, but it's on our list of things to look into when we revisit our donation options.

Recently another user checked in about Librepay, and I asked for more thoughts. If you have any additional points, we'd appreciate them! I'll copy them into our notes alongside the previous comments

https://lemmy.ca/comment/14581793

We ban spammers and remove all their content fairly quickly once we get a report, sometimes within minutes if we're online at the time. Could you report the post/message so we can deal with it?

For what it's worth, once in a while I'll search the spam URLs and the same junk is posted across Reddit and other sites. Worse, some of those posts have been up for months