Lemmy.ca's Main Community

I'm planning on upgrading lemmy to v0.18.0 tonight, probably around 9pm CDT. So there will be a bit of downtime, but I don't think it should take too long.

Release Announcement: https://lemmy.ca/post/862306

edit: kids baseball game went long, should start around 10pm CDT.

edit2: going to start in about 5 minutes. 9:55pm CDT.

edit3: looks like we're updated. let me know if you notice any issues!

Users coming here from reddit might know that the main canada subreddit and offshoots such as metacanada and canada_sub are havens for the far-right. I'm concerned that as Lemmy.ca is growing, a small number of far-right posters might be able to influence the culture that Lemmy.ca develops.

Namely, a transphobic user shared a transphobic conspiracy theory from a far right disinformation outlet yesterday. Their post history has enough disinformation links that they should be getting paid for it:

• https://lemmy.ca/comment/475603
• https://lemmy.ca/comment/464473
• https://lemmy.ca/comment/451659
• https://lemmy.ca/comment/423565

Here is my proposal:

• This user is breaking 3 of the 4 rules posted in the sidebar (no transphobia, be respectful, no spamming.) Ban the user from lemmy.ca.
• Add far-right disinformation outlets to a domain blocklist. If Lemmy doesn't support this feature yet, post those domains in the sidebar and ban users who submit links to them.
• Make it clear that bigotry and intolerance is 100% instantly bannable.

Thanks for reading this, I look forward to hearing your thoughts.

I've been talking to many people about the controversy with Reddit, why I left it and why I went onto Lemmy, Kbin and Mastadon instead. Some of my friends have commented that the control is still a problem as other platforms and it is all dependent on who owns the software, who owns the hardware, who are the admins, who are the moderators and which community or group has the most influence.

Who are these people that influence the most control on the fediverse? Are they Conservative? Are they Liberal? Are they Republican? Are they Democrat? Do they lean to the left of politics? to the right? or are they center? Are they even political? But also if they had to be would they easily or not so easily influenced?

So .. for the ELI5 version of the question ... Who owns the fediverse?

Just curious as this is all fun and open till it scales to expensive. What is the lemmy.ca plan to sustain / fund it self?

Constant donation nagging like Wikipedia?

Growth! Line is going up! Discuss.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/722986

I mentioned in one of my previous posts that emails from lemmy.ca didn't appear to be working for a small number of people. This issue should hopefully resolved now. Please let me know if you aren't receiving them still.

Also, I created a !meta@lemmy.ca community, where all the news about this instance will go. I'll cross post it to main for a while before switching over to meta only eventually.

I’m totally cool with the federation with lemmyNSFW instance and actually I made an account over there so I could subscribe to my favorite porn subs.

But, I’d also prefer to keep it separate from my lemmy.ca account feed. I don’t like to use the block nsfw option in my profile because NSFW isn’t just sexual content/porn. So basically, it would be awesome if there were a way to optionally block the entire instance on an account level, or optionally just not have posts from lemmyNSFW show up in All & Local. Communities are rapidly being created and I’ll never keep up blocking them one by one. I know not everyone likes to keep things separate and that’s why I’m wondering if this can be an option in a future update.

https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2023/06/11/lemmy-migration-find-subreddits-communities/

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1204463

Discuss it here: https://lemmy.ca/post/623204

I wrote a guide to help users with their migration to Lemmy

This guide will help new lemmy users find and subscribe-to (remote) lemmy ~~subreddits~~ communities

Wow, we have doubled in size in around a week! Next week should be interesting!

Hello all!

I've got a few things to announce.

We've grown by over 200 users since May 30. That's about 28 users/day, which is huge compared to what it's been before that. I'm very happy to see the increased activity, and hope this place (and lemmy/the fediverse in general) will become the goto spot for social interactions and link sharing. I'm excited for what the future will bring! Also thanks to many of you for making me laugh in your registration applications.

As this server grows, I think it would be a good idea to have some admins (I'm thinking 2 to start), to help with approving new user registrations, and dealing with Reports. Ideally, I'd like to leave most reports up to the community moderators, but for things that go against the site-wide rules, I'd like to have a team of 3 so we can deal with these things as a group. I haven't fully decided on how I will pick the admins, but I will make another post when I'm ready to do that.

I've thought about a new logo for lemmy.ca. Are there any graphic designers here that would like to create a new logo? I don't really have anything in mind other than something to do with Canada, obviously.

Lastly, since some users have asked, I've setup two places where users can donate to support the server. The monthly costs to run the server is currently around $25 CAD/month, which includes weekly backups (which I may change to daily). Anyways, donations are completely optional, but greatly appreciated! They can be made here:

https://liberapay.com/lemmy.ca/
https://opencollective.com/lemmy-ca

I'll add those links to the main sidebar as well.

If you have any feedback for anything above, let me know!

hey,

for some reason i can't see the vancouver community from my beehaw account (eg https://beehaw.org/c/vancouver@lemmy.ca returns a 404 and it doesn't show up in https://beehaw.org/communities), but https://lemmy.ca/c/vancouver works just fine, any idea why that would be?

thanks!

Sorry for the extended downtime, I messed up when attempting to copy over the media. I should have just rsync'd it to begin with, rather than attempting to compress it first.

Anyways, everything looks to be working, but it may take a bit for DNS to be updated for everyone.

Let me know if you have any issues!

So what's the policy - official or otherwise - on creating communities? Should I just re-create my favourite Reddit communities, if they don't already exist, and see if there's any uptake?

it was recommended for all instances. it would definitely cut down on spammers, but may discourage actual users from signing up too? just wanted to get everyone's thoughts on the matter.

if you're wondering who i am, i previously posted in the announcements community, but didn't realize that there aren't many subscribers there, i've taken over the hosting of lemmy.ca.

Lemmy.ca currently shows 22 comments on this post, but its native instance, lemmy.ml, shows 35 comments.

It's not (or not only) a matter of only older comments being present, or of comments being from different instances: for example, this comment from a lemmy.ml user doesn't appear on lemmy.ca but this later comment from a different lemmy.ml user does.

Is this a known problem?

Happy after-Labour-Day Tuesday!

Lemmy 0.12 was released last week, and there's already been a couple of bugfix releases (part of why it's so good to have patience when a new software release that has major new features or rewrites come along).

So we've jumped to 0.12.2:

Announcement of lemmy 0.12: https://lemmy.ca/post/12783 Announcmeent of lemmy 0.12.1: https://lemmy.ca/post/12841 Release notes that include the 0.12.2 release: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/RELEASES.md

Enjoy!

Howdy all!

I know we're a brand new instance, but as we're public and users are joining up, I felt that I should post this.

I know we're past Christmas already, but I hope everyone is doing as well as possible, staying safe, and having an enjoyable end of the year.

I'm very much looking forward to Lemmy developments and refinements, and lemmy.ca specifically being a fantastic and useful spot for people.

Here's hoping the bugs of 2020 take a hike in 2021 and that it's a much merrier year over all.

Peace to all!