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canada·CanadabySunshine (she/her)

I had to do a double take when I saw Lemmy.ca spiked to 9.1k registered users

They must be those cool folks from r/onguardforthee and r/fredericton! Lets get off those american Reddit servers eh!

Update: there’s a thread on r/buycanadian with 93 upvotes, promoting the platform! Open the floodgates baby!

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Guillaume Harvey
lemmy.ca

Hi! If you need reliable canadian hosting for lemmy.ca let me know. I am a co-founder of a Canadian Cloud and I will be happy to provide the infra for free. We are happy to help canada going out of American Corporation. If you are interested, let me know!

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ehpoliticalreply
lemmy.ca

Quebec really is beautiful. Haven't been in ages, would love to go back one day.

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brbpostingreply
sh.itjust.works

That’s so great yo, thank you from all fediversians

Also sorry from all USAians with brains 😭 srsly

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atomicpoet
kbin.earth

Congrats. Canada needs to build its own social media infrastructure.

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tamal3reply
lemmy.world

Let's just put the argument to rest by becoming Canadian. Please?

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Spruce_Gum
lemmy.ca

Just joined to get away from Reddit - I’m pleasantly surprised with how active it seems here despite the much smaller community! This is exciting!

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Werewolf_Copreply
lemmy.ca

Question for you: are pretty much all of the users Canadian or in Canada? Is it possible to tell?

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Kichaereply
lemmy.ca

Users that you see with an email-like suffix to their name are using different websites and are less likely to be Camadian (though, as you know/ we are everywhere). Users without the suffix (if your client omits local addressing) are on lemmy.ca and are much more likely to be Canadian.

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nyanreply
lemmy.cafe

though, as you know/ we are everywhere

True enough. I joined a British instance for reasons that seemed good enough to me at the time I signed up. I kind of pity any Canadian who decided to sign up with an American instance somewhere back in the depths of time, though—I don't think Trump will manage to put a tariff on electrons, but I wouldn't put it past him to try, and the last I checked, migration of accounts between servers in the Fediverse was still kind of half-baked.

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psudreply
aussie.zone

I like being in a regional instance, it means I can view local and see Australian news etc, it also means I don't need to tell people where I'm from as often

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turtle [he/him]reply
lemm.ee

Users without the suffix (if your client omits local addressing) are on lemmy.ca

Just FYI, I don't believe that this is strictly true. In most cases it is, but I've seen many users outside my instance without the suffix. I believe that if someone edits their display name it drops the suffix, or at least it used to. Maybe that's been corrected?

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Sunshine (she/her)reply
lemmy.ca

I would assume most users are Canadian as they would have more related interests here.

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Shadow
lemmy.ca

I did some playing around with grafana. This data is all just number of signups per day, grouped by instance.

Here you can see our recent spike in users compared to normal:

Adding in some other large instances we all got an increase in traffic, but ours seems to be more sustained:

And for completeness, compared to all of lemmy (as visible by lemmy.ca, so only things we federate with):

Reddit's announced some more changes but I suspect the whole tariff situation is pushing Canadians extra hard.

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oce 🐆reply
jlai.lu

Is this grafana public? I'd like to check for jlai.lu, we also had a recent influx of users.

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Shadowreply
lemmy.ca

No, I want to start exposing a grafana instance but for now I'm keeping this internal since it hits our live postgres.

The query if you want it is:

SELECT
  DATE(published AT TIME ZONE 'UTC') AS date,
  COUNT(*) FILTER (WHERE instance_id IN (SELECT id FROM instance WHERE domain = 'lemmy.ca')) AS lemmy_ca,
  COUNT(*) FILTER (WHERE instance_id IN (SELECT id FROM instance WHERE domain = 'sh.itjust.works')) AS sh_itjust_works,
  COUNT(*) FILTER (WHERE instance_id IN (SELECT id FROM instance WHERE domain = 'lemmy.world')) AS lemmy_world,
  COUNT(*) FILTER (WHERE instance_id IN (SELECT id FROM instance WHERE domain = 'lemmy.dbzer0.com')) AS dbzer0,
  COUNT(*) FILTER (WHERE instance_id IN (SELECT id FROM instance WHERE domain = 'jlai.lu')) AS jlai_lu,
  count(*) as all_lemmy
FROM person
GROUP BY 1
ORDER BY 1;

Or here's your instance overlayed with us to provide a comparison:

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lemmyngreply
lemmy.ca

A suggestion from someone who frequently deals with observability infrastructure: it's a good idea to set up a postgres exporter and record your data as Prometheus metrics, that way querying the metrics does not hit any of the production stack.

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tetris11reply
lemmy.ml

Prometheus is the goat, and is built into a surprisingly large amount of FOSS service tools. JupyterHub for example includes Prometheus metrics out of the box

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Shadowreply
lemmy.ca

Eh. Calling it the goat is excessive. I'm planning to go victoriametrics instead.

Yes the exporter format is common and widely supported though, which is nice.

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Moose
moose.best

I'm not on lemmy.ca but as a moose I appreciate this post and my fellow Canadians 🇨🇦🫎

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mPonyreply
lemmy.world

hey guys check out this moose over here.

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ThePrivacyPolicy
lemmy.ca

There's some Facebook 'buy Canadian' groups with over half a million people in - this server occasionally comes up there too when people are looking for Canadian hosted discussion sites to ditch big American tech like reddit or Facebook groups.

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IninewCrow
lemmy.ca

former r/onguardforthee fan here ... I've been on Lemmy.ca now for over a year ... happy to see others are hopping on board and jumping off the burning train wreck

ADDITION TO MY ORIGINAL .... one thing we current users of Lemmy should point out to any new users that are joining Lemmy either here at Lemmy.ca or any other fediverse instance is to REMIND EVERYONE TO DONATE TO AND SUPPORT THE INSTANCE THEY ARE ON. It's great that all this stuff is free for us to use but there are people here who work to develop, maintain and upgrade the source software and there are groups of people who maintain and manage the instances that we all use. We can't expect all these people to work for free. Many of them may not mind working for free and they might even enjoy it but there will come times when they either can't do it any more or they just run out of money, resources and time and energy to manage things as they grow more and more popular. No one complains when things are working but everyone will scream and shout as soon as their instance fails for one reason or another. Everyone or as many people as possible should find a bit of money to support their instance or the developers. Even if everyone gave a dollar, that would add up to thousands. If we keep these instances and the people that work and maintain all this well funded then we can all be safe and secure from any corporate rot that might creep into our communities.

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Avid Amoebareply
lemmy.ca

Doesn't the new server support at least 10x-100x the current capacity? I think it was a huge machine compared to the old one. I guess storage is separate.

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Sunshine (she/her)reply
lemmy.ca

That’s a lot of potential wiggle room. 92k to 920k potential registered users while currently LW has 174k, that’s one crazy hardware upgrade. The servers will become cheaper to run in the future as we put to use our economies of scale.

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Em Adespotonreply
lemmy.ca

I switched to Lemmy.ca with the first wave and have found zero reasons to go back to Reddit since.

There are nifty migration tools that help you find Lemmy equivalent communities for the subreddits you were subscribed to.

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GreyEyedGhostreply
lemmy.ca

Likewise, but I still go to reddit via searches if the other results aren't helping me out. At this point it's more an act of desperation than desire, though.

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SpaceCowboyreply
lemmy.ca

No need to feel guilty about doing the right thing.

And there's not an endless stream of content on lemmy, so it doesn't eat up too much time.

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slax
sh.itjust.works

Its a great time to join. I think many of us have been lurkers in reddit and now with the tides of change we need to also make Lemmy active, especially the Canadian sites

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0opsreply
lemm.ee

I've known this for almost as long as I've been on lemmy... but I still read it as lemmy California at first.

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psudreply
aussie.zone

California would be .ca.us but nearly no one uses .us addresses, a few states point their .us domain at their .com domain

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Kichae
lemmy.ca

Ooo, there's a Canadian Rexit happening? Cool! I keep my Reddit usage much more focused on niche hobby communities now, and there's zero talk of Reddit politics on those yet, sadly.

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CastorSulMush
lemmy.world

Oh Canada, we must come together to protect our country from the insane monsters south of our border.

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Devanismynamereply
lemmy.ca

The insane monsters in canada too. Cough pp Cough danielle Smith Cough cough

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Jerkface (any/all)reply
lemmy.ca

Do we? Because this feels to me like a ruling class problem. Labour class is a lot less affected, and our efforts are mostly helping the exact same set of oligarchs who are working both sides of the border.

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dylanjustice
lemmy.ca

Nope, here for a break from the drama on r/ehbuddyhoser.

Should probably find a place to cross post some of their memes here now that I think of it. The Bay of Nova Scotia was gold.

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Avid Amoebareply
lemmy.ca

Please. That's one of the few reasons I go to Reddit, getting some of that maple memes.

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cm0002
lemmy.world

I was going to post my standard Tankie Triad warning for new users, but looks like lemmy.ca defed's from the entire Triad already LMAO

...I need to move to Canada....

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cm0002reply
lemmy.world

Oh I double checked and you don't, but I saw enterprise.lemmy.ml and voyager.lemmy.ml sub domains and assumed the main lemmy.ml was as well lol

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tazzy
lemm.ee

I’ll still learning how to use it and I don’t know what the lemmys are or how the communities work but I’m happy I’m not supporting Reddit eh

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Quokkareply
quokk.au

I heard Reddit was going to charge subscriptions for subreddits.

Also they banned a bunch of porn and lgbt subs.

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Makeshiftreply
sh.itjust.works

Wait is there any validity to that first one?

I know the second one happened for like a day and they tried to say ‘Just a bug!’ thinking no one would see past their totally brilliant cover-up.

That first one would be huge. Maybe a hammer for all the nails they been gathering to their coffin!

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Quokkareply
quokk.au

In a video Ask Me Anything (AMA) session hosted by CEO Steve Huffman following the company’s quarterly earnings report (which went poorly), the founder and exec said Reddit is actively testing ways to make some content require payment to access and plans to roll out a “paid subreddit” feature later this year.

https://gizmodo.com/reddit-ceo-says-paywalls-are-coming-soon-2000564245

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Spacehooksreply
reddthat.com

What tha hell? I thought he misspelled change with charge. But no.

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Em Adespotonreply
lemmy.ca

Supposedly it will just be new subreddits, at least to start.

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Makeshiftreply
sh.itjust.works

Woowww.

I hope it finally kills them. With the economy going to shit and everyone becoming poorer and LESS able to afford subscriptions, what a perfect time to paywall it!

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MehBlahreply
lemmy.world

I'm not Canadian but I have watched letterkenny at a Holiday Inn Express.

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Prince_SKyle
lemm.ee

after seeing a thread on r/buycanadian saying “petition to rename the Americano, a Canadiano” I knew the next step was to head over here & make an account lol

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psudreply
aussie.zone

If you're talking coffee, Australia calls that a long black, though some are trying to import "americano" to mean "like a long black, but add the coffee before the water"

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wirebeads
lemmy.ca

Just joined today. Happy to be here and away from reddit!!

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wise_pancake
lemmy.ca

Welcome fellow canucks!

I look forward to the communities you create and contribute to!

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vastard
lemmynsfw.com

Is there a problem using an email alias to sign up? I applied more than a week ago. I recognize it’s a lot of work but I was wondering if I had been accidentally been binned as a bot.

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Shadowreply
lemmy.ca

Not usually. Can you dm me the account name or email and I'll look later tonight?

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Mongosteinreply
lemmy.ca

Your instance doesn’t really matter that much but personally, I feel like the bigger instances will be the ones more prone to enshitification.

The admins over here are Canadian and have set up a non-profit to keep everything they’re doing above board, so I like them. :)

Check out https://fedecan.ca/en/

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tetris11reply
lemmy.ml

Feddit.uk are also using a nice opencollective funding model, so it seems like these projects are nicely decentivised against a rogue admin selling the domain or selling the actual server

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ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝reply
feddit.uk

We also have one Admin in charge of the domains (me) and one in charge of the domains (GA), so we'd have to team up to go rogue. We also have processes to handover control if we get hit be a bus.

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Luffyreply
lemmy.ml

Why not lemmygrad, hexbear, or .ml?

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thedirtyknapkinreply
lemmy.world

because of the tankies lol. don't pretend you don't know about the reputation those instances have.

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thedirtyknapkinreply
lemmy.world

"communists" that are mainly concerned with defending everything that the modern Russian and Chinese governments do and shitting on everything America does. i can vibe with the America bashing, especially right now, but China and Russia also generally suck in many of the ways that America is currently getting worse in.

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tetris11reply
lemmy.ml

Nothing to add other than "yup", though with the caveat that if you block some users and their pro-Russia/China posts, its quite a peaceful place

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hydration9806reply
lemmy.ml

Yeaaa, I made my account on .ml a while ago. Looking forward to when migrating accounts is supported to move home to .ca

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mPonyreply
lemmy.world

it's hard to tell a Canadian from a non-Canadian on the internet. It's not like there's a Captcha test for it. Can you imagine

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slym
lemmy.ca

Welcome all , lets keep it going . Also thanks for the super admin we got here .

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ehpolitical
lemmy.ca

It's is a bit embarrassing to admit, but this is the first time I've cried during our national anthem.

God keep our land glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee!

O Canada

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Sicsurfer
lemmy.ca

I think I found Lemmy from r/EhBuddyHoser, sweet find!

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Sicsurferreply
lemmy.ca

I think I saw a link in ehbuddyhoser. Still haven’t completely figured out Lemmy but Reddit is full of bots

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