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!
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!
Let’s talk =)
Let the collaborations begin ;)
Let us know if you get this setup!
That’s so great yo, thank you from all fediversians
Also sorry from all USAians with brains 😭 srsly
I think I found Lemmy from r/EhBuddyHoser, sweet find!
May I ask which post has lead you here?
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!
We like to party too!
Question for you: are pretty much all of the users Canadian or in Canada? Is it possible to tell?
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.
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.
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
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?
You can join communities on other instances too if you have specific interests.
I would assume most users are Canadian as they would have more related interests here.
Hi, I use sh.itjust.works, another fantastic Canadian instance, and I’m British! Big love!
Welcome!
I’m not on lemmy.ca but as a moose I appreciate this post and my fellow Canadians 🇨🇦🫎
A moose once bit my sister
It means he’s playful.
She was making fun of the size of my antlers.
It was such a rough rut!
hey guys check out this moose over here.
Congrats. Canada needs to build its own social media infrastructure.
They should also build a wall so our stupid stays south of their sovereign border.
Not all of us are stupid. Just a majority. No more than 3/4. Maybe. On a really good day.
Let’s just put the argument to rest by becoming Canadian. Please?
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.
Is this grafana public? I’d like to check for jlai.lu, we also had a recent influx of users.
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:
Nice, thank you!
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.
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
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.
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.
A Facebook exodus!
Canadian Friendica will be here soon!
It’s URL is friendi.ca!
Thank you for informing me as that brings a smile to my face.
Also there’s a Quebec friendica instance called https://onjase.quebec/
They have 29 users and an uptime of 95%
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
Fuckin’ a. Welcome
Lemmy is love. Welcome everyone :)
We’re bunch of fluffy taneggs!
Wait you mean .ca is Canada and not California??
California would be .ca.us but nearly no one uses .us addresses, a few states point their .us domain at their .com domain
r/sellcalifornia
!sellcalifornia
I’ve known this for almost as long as I’ve been on lemmy… but I still read it as lemmy California at first.
Seize the memes of production!
that’s good
Update: we just hit 9.2k! Keep up the surge folks! Keep Shadow busy tonight!
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.
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.
Now that you spell out these numbers, probably not 100x. 😂
Oh Canada, we must come together to protect our country from the insane monsters south of our border.
The insane monsters in canada too. Cough pp Cough danielle Smith Cough cough
Unfortunately, she has a couple years of term left. Then Nenshi can eat her lunch.
It’s, “O Canada,” which means something very different than, “Oh, Canada.”
And a new AO3 tag is born…
Why did I never notice that before?
You’re probably just accustomed to the French, “Ô Canada!”
What? But O and Oh sound the same either way. Hmm.
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.
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.
There isn’t room for multiple social media in my life and i will try with only Lemmy for a few months. I did came from r/BuyCanadian with curiosity more than the US boycott in mind. I plead guilty!
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.
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.
Nice so they were talking about us there!
Welcome! Have fun!
