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!

  • Guillaume Harvey@lemmy.ca
    152·
    4 天前

    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!

  • tazzy@lemm.eeEnglish
    15·
    3 天前

    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

  • Spruce_Gum@lemmy.caEnglish
    63·
    4 天前

    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!

      • Werewolf_Cop@lemmy.caEnglish
        15·
        4 天前

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

        • Kichae@lemmy.caEnglish
          10·
          4 天前

          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.

          • turtle [he/him]@lemm.eeEnglish
            3·
            3 天前

            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?

          • nyan@lemmy.cafeEnglish
            61·
            4 天前

            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.

            • psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
              1·
              1 天前

              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

          • tigolbittiesEnglish
            12·
            4 天前

            Hi, I use sh.itjust.works, another fantastic Canadian instance, and I’m British! Big love!

  • Shadow@lemmy.ca
    59·
    4 天前

    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.

      • Shadow@lemmy.ca
        25·
        4 天前

        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:

        • lemmyng@lemmy.caEnglish
          7·
          4 天前

          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.

          • tetris11@lemmy.ml
            6·
            4 天前

            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

            • Shadow@lemmy.ca
              5·
              3 天前

              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.

  • Snowstorm@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    2 天前

    I challenge every newbies to create 1-3 posts over the first 72 h here : what do you enjoy in social media usually? It doesn’t have to be perfectly new if it’s new on Lemmy: your favourite Reddit group isn’t represented here or silent for a while : show us a glimpse of what you like and see how much engagement you receive.

  • Prince_SKyle@lemm.eeEnglish
    10·
    3 天前

    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

    • psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
      1·
      1 天前

      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”