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: https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2023/06/11/lemmy-migration-find-subreddits-communities/
i should have added it here a while ago!
Thanks for the warm welcome smorks! Also here from reddit, and I can already tell that this is the online community I’ve been yearning for. People connecting with each other, engaging in discussion. There’s a lot of good things that came from reddit over the years, but as I’ve read so many times in various relationship subreddits “When people show you who they are, believe them the first time” (sorry Maya Angelou).
Spez showed us what he really thinks of his userbase, and I’m proud to add reddit to the list of corporations I won’t use because they’re dicks.
Ahem.
Really glad to see a strong Canadian contingent here. May your timmies be hot and your beer cold 😁
Fifteen-year veteran of reddit checking in. So glad to be a part of this societal shift, and excited to see where we go from here!
If anyone else is missing an old-reddit/digg style UI on the desktop, I’ve published Rediggit for Lemmy. It’s very much a work-in-progress, but it should scratch that immediate itch for more legroom. Currently for light theme only, but more coming (and feel free to hack away and shape my mess into something even better).
nice work! if I have some free time I may work this into a custom theme (with your approval, of course).
By all means! Mine itself is based off DarkFox’s Old reddit-ish Lemmy. I hope to do a full rewrite in the coming weeks, to incorporate dark mode and make it all more robust, but wanted to share for any other ex-redditors looking for a hotfix.
Checking in from Nova Scotia! Fellow Rexxiter (?) looking for a new location to plant roots with a good community. Primary interests are in automotive, woodworking, cycling, and electronics.
Happy to be here with you all!
No need for a question mark, rexxit is great, haha.
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.
It’s like email but Reddit style
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.)
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)
It’s easy with Mlem on iOS
Yeah, I read that before, but I didn’t really understand what that meant.
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.
Reddit old-timer from Toronto here. Happy to see how fast the Fediverse is evolving thanks to u/spez. Feels like the internet again.
Hi, I’m a programmer living in beautiful rural New Brunswick. I guess you can say I’m part of the Reddit exodus, but still unsure if I’ll leave that platform for good. Hoping for a much better experience and interactions here. Have an awesome day, everyone!
Good Afternoon My Fellow Canucks (Canadians) and Canadian Lovers Eh!
Like many of you, I have also left Reddit and plan to make my home here. I’m in York Region in Ontario and well have a distributed set of friends all over the place. Lots of love to my brothers and sisters in the surrounding Provinces.
As for me, well I tend to read about technology, play allot of board games, and seem to dabble in Linux land while helping people with techie issues. I’m currently trying to learn the board game “Earth” which at some point will teach at game night.
Hope you all have a great day!
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.
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
This here’s my birds
so friggin cute! i miss having chickens. no more free breakfast!
Lol this Mlem app is sweet but I can’t see your photo, it just shows up as large but I can’t scroll along it.
New Brunswick Reddit refuge…
BC here, yet another reddit refugee. New to the fediverse and still trying to figure it out.
Another Western Canadian reddit refugee here. I still can’t decide if I consider myself Albertan or British Columbian. I’ve spent about an equal amount of my life in each province. Alberta does have the lower drinking age and less taxes so it might edge out the competition.
Redditor of 12 years chiming in from BC :P
Hi everybody! Nice to meet you all. :D I’m over in Ottawa, and I’m completely new to Lemmy (immigrating from Reddit), so I hope I can learn the culture of this place okay!
First thing’s first: I’m going to figure out how to navigate this place, and then I’m going to start talking to folks. Wish me luck (or wish me a For Redditors help guide). :P
Edit: This is probably going to make the OG Lemmings (Lemmites?) cry, but I think this place makes easier sense if I go at it like:
- Instance = subreddit
- Community = post flair
Because each instance is its own website with its own admin, and each community is a group within that instance. I can join a community to chat about whatever the community’s about, but if I want to go to the communities in a different instance, it’s like going to a different subreddit; I can’t just find it by trying to ‘filter’ the communities by their ‘flair’ since that community isn’t ‘here’. It’s at a completely different subreddit/instance/website. :)
Hello from Ottawa , the 613. Can anyone point me to url for the history of the Lemmy site, perhaps even the backstory of Lemmy.ca ? I didn’t check into Reddit back in 2015. I am interested. I was led here by a reddit moderator in the electronics industry.
Edit2 I found Michaels intro post and the ten tutorial inks and I will start there
i can give you the quick history of lemmy.ca. kinetix started this instance back in 2020 i believe. around January, 2022, he was asking if anyone wanted to take over the site. so i volunteered, and around the beginning of February 2022 it had been transferred over.
it’s been pretty quiet here since then, until the whole reddit fiasco recently, and it’s great to see all the new users and increased activity!
