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Lemmy.ca's Main Community

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Welcome to the lemmy.ca/c/main community!

All new users on lemmy.ca are automatically subscribed to this community, so this is the place to read announcements, make suggestions, and chat about the goings-on of lemmy.ca.

For support requests specific to lemmy.ca, you can use [email protected].


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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

There seems to be an issue with the signup process on lemmy.ca. I've been trying to signup for a while today but the Sign Up button just keeps spinning when I click it. I've tried numerous things to try to fix it and nothing seems to work. Signed up on a different server so I could report the issue.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I had a similar issue, turns out the username I'd chosen was too long. After I shortened the name it went through.

Of course if your username was greg that's not it, but leaving this for anyone else who may find it.

edit: in hindsigh might have been a taken username.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm not Canadian nor do I live in Canada however I have been following Canadian issues for some time now and am thinking about joining CanadaPolitics. I am from New Zealand (hence my username). I would like to interact with average Canadians to find out what life is like over there. Don't panic, I am not thinking of emigrating there. I understand you have a housing crisis over there at the moment. I watch a lot of Canadian YouTube channels. My interest is more about what life is like over there.

I suppose I should mention I am a long time Reddit user which looks like it is imploding these days.

As I am new here are there any rules I should know about?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Coming from Reddit also, and trying to navigate around here - Happy Canada Day!🍁

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Hey neighbours! West coast checking in here.

Like pretty much everyone else in this thread, I've got a nerdy background and I'm jumping ship from Reddit before spez completely implodes the site. Time to grab some poutine and enjoy the fireworks, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Redditor of 11 years chiming in from BC.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

New to lemmy as a previous redditor. I'm having a hell of a time trying to subscribe to other server's communities. For instance, if I search [email protected] on lemmy.ca, nothing is found, having the same issue with [email protected]. How do I subscribe to these communities from a lemmy.ca account? Thanks in advance for any help!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

i first tried the search for [[email protected]](/c/[email protected]), but then tried the url (https://lemmy.world/c/indieheads), and it found it. a bit weird, but it now looks like if you search either one now it'll come up. maybe a weird federation quirk.

the wine one is weird though. going to https://lemmy.world/c/wine gives a 404, and if i search for it on their site i get this: https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected], but searching for that here doesn't appear to work either.

i'm guessing it's an issue related to this: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3017

i can contact their admin to see if they can "fix" that community for now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Thanks for your help! Searching [email protected] still doesn't work for me but https://lemmy.ca/c/[email protected] does now work for me. Any followup on the wine one is greatly appreciated too!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

you're welcome! and yes, i will let you know if i hear anything.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm from Kansas City! We're kinda like Canadians!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

hi everyone! one more from the reddit exodus… currently living in southwestern ON. hoping to join some communities focused on gaming, hiking and beer drinking in the area! if you got any suggestions, let me know!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Any reason why my front page is mostly posts from a week ago, regardless of whether i set it to "Hot" or "Active"?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Top of the Day or New seem to be the best options right now. Top of the Day should return new posts with lots of activity, while New will often return posts that don't yet have comments.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I agree this is a complaint that I hope will soon go away. It seems the algorithm also takes into account comments as "activity" so the front page posts get the most comments and thus stay "active" for too long.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

yeah, that seems to be the case. there's never been enough activity here before the last few weeks for me to notice it probably, ahah.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I just signed up tonight. I tried to log in about an hour after signing up, and it worked. Now I have to see whether I can find a community that lives elsewhere on lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Hello Lemmians... Lemmites? Lemmons?

What's the preferred nomenclature for the denizens of this site?

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[–] Burstar 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Can somebody explain to me why this is "Canadian Server, run by Canadians"... but located in the Netherlands?

Edit: thanks for the informative responses!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Hello fellow humans. I’m actually from a different CA, California. But I’m a believer that you should choose an instance based upon the administration not on topic, and this one feels much more in line with my sensibilities than the other large ones. Sorry to stereotype, but the conversations feel kinder here than elsewhere (even by the already nice standards of lemmy instances overall.)

I don’t much like sharing personal type information online, so I hope you’ll forgive my brevity. I don’t work in tech, but have had a lifelong interest in it so I feel right at home here at the ground floor of a new community.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Hello everyone. It's nice to meet everyone, it's so warm here. You may call me Lenny since it's the real nickname of mine people have started referring to me as. I'm a 23-year-old woman from Vermont who works for a reporting place (sort of) and likes art and cryptography. I'm on both Lemmy and Reddit but Lemmy has truly grown on me. Thanks for having me here, and feel free to ask questions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Hello all! Posting from Mlem on iOS 17!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Hey again, been a while since I posted in this thread! Was hoping to clarify a bit on the Lemmy.ca rules if I could. I have two questions:

  1. What is the stance on NSFL/gore content? Allowed, discouraged, banned?
  2. We have the rule "No porn." This sounds simple, but what is classified as porn. Is all nudity porn? Is nudity alright in an artistic context such as the Statue of David? What about a medical/injury setting, or a non-pornographic setting such as "public freakout" videos?

I ask these questions as I moderate !roadcam which could have both of these sorts of content posted to it, if not often. I am unsure if I want to ban that content outright, but it would be handy to know the instance rules first.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sorry for the delay, I talked this over with the other admins, and here's what we decided:

  1. NSFL/gore content is not allowed.
  2. That's a tough one. Artistic should be fine. Medical/injury should also be fine, as long as it's not wading into NSFL/gore stuff.

Hope that helps!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Not at all, it's a tough question. Thank you so much for the answers, I will revise my community's rules to stay in line with that then. :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Omg did I actually figure out how to join? Yay

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Hello from Eastern Ontario. I am a Reddit Refugee and this is my first day on Lemmy. I'm happy to make lemmy.ca my home. I'm interested in maple syrup making, microcontrollers and using them to make maple syrup, and my first computer was a Commodore 64 and I recently completed a SixtyClone 250466 Commodore 64 clone. I'm a small farmer, amateur welder, and I am an information security sales engineer by day. I've created three communities and hope to contribute to Lemmy. If you think I might be interested in a community please point me in the right direction.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why do other some communities I'm subbed to when viewing through lemmy.ca show no posts, no users, etc?

Like if I view [email protected] through lemmy.ca, it shows no posts.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Aloha. I see that "mamot.fr" is a linked instance here. Can I subscribe here, to something like mamot.fr/@pluralistic?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

unfortunately not. I too enjoy Cory's writings. I think that following users might be a planned feature?

mastodon users can post/comment on stuff at lemmy however.

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