Hello. I’m new here ✌🏽

Just joined. O Canada, NO America. :)

'morning! I’m in. Though I scrubbed my reddit content back in the ‘strike’ my eyeballs still regularly contributed to their site. I guess I’m stopping that now too. Small steps, as they say. Looking forward it.

Hello. I don’t usually make personal posts but I am glad this site exists. I left reddit after 5 years. It was on reddit that I was pointed here. The Fediverse sounds like a beneficial collective and I am excited to see it grow.

Usually I just post stupid puns (which are very clever in my head) and topical quips which offer nothing (but are very genius in my head). I hope to have fun, get informed, and learn something from the pack along the way. Goodbye.

Hello Lemmy.ca,

Super new here, but super happy to find this exists. I hope it grows and keeps gaining in popularity despite the clunky nature which I think is inherent to the Fediverse (am I saying that right?).

My story is probably like a lot of people here. Reddit was my only actual social media account. Never did the Twitter/Facebook/Instagram, whatever else. Reddit was how I got my news and I was fine with that.

But back in January when this whole Tariff thing was first winding up, I decided to go hard and start my American boycott. I cancelled Netflix and Disney+ (I haven’t missed them for one second, which makes me wonder why I was paying for them anyway), I cancelled my Xbox Gamepass. I was already boycotting all things Amazon and Wal-mart. You get the idea. Reddit though, it didn’t feel like a betrayal - r/onguardforthee was my Canadian politics news source of choice and I wasn’t giving them any money.

But it occurs to me, when engagement numbers is how these guys convince investors to prop them up with no sustainable business model - I sort of was doing some damage. So, I set off looking for an alternative and here I am.

We have so little power to influence things these days it can feel pointless to make changes. Changes to our social media site of choice. Changes to our buying habits. How much does it really add up? But my father taught me, and I bet yours did too, you don’t do the right thing because it guarantees the right outcome. You do it so you can look in the mirror at the end of the day. Thanks for helping me look in the mirror.

Bonjour, fellow Canadian Lemmies! I’d deleted my Reddit account in November, and was only lurking, so it’s nice to have a voice in the conversation once more.

Elbows up!!!

Not a new user but I’m actually finally deleting my Reddit acct. Just updating all my comments and posts now using redact. The recent news about Elon getting them to massage their content was enough. Fuck them.

edit - 15 years of comments takes a fucking long time to update humourously I’ve been banned from multiple communities because of using redact.dev

I’m not new. This is my second post already.

Just joined today! Deleted all my posts on Reddit (thank you Shreddit) deleted my account, and now I’m here! The US can go to hell, well, it’s half way there already. Thank you Lemmy.ca

Thanks for having me! I’m glad to have finally made the switch over from Reddit and other conventional platforms. I’ve always been mostly a lurker but hey, maybe this time will be different. Looking forward to the fresh start!

Elbows up, hosers!

A couple of notes and unsolicited advice as someone who is almost an old hand already…

(1) Your front-page will be more interesting as you subscribe to more things. You can subscribe to things from other Lemmy servers and they will be pulled into your feed here.

(2) Communities that are hosted on this server will show up under “Local”.

(3) “All” shows all of the local content from (2), but also any content that this server had to fetch from other servers for others. Basically, when you subscribe to stuff, it’ll end up in All for everyone else on this server as well. If no one on the server has subscribed to specific content from another server, it won’t show up in All. As a result, All is sort of a cross section of our users’ interests.

(4) If you were to sign up for another server – say lemm.ee – you would get a different Local and All. But you should be able to subscribe to the same things regardless of the server you chose.

(5) Some servers are not connected to others, for reasons. This is called defederation. It’s basically a means to block an entire server who has a community not behaving in a way that doesn’t jive well on your local server. Lemmygrad.ml is blocked from this server, for example. You probably won’t notice, but on rare occasions you can’t subscribe to a community on a blocked server.

(6) You can help the quieter communities grow by shitposting. Throw your backlog of old saved memes into them. There isn’t as much traffic here as reddit, and the niche communities often don’t exist (or are silent).

(7) Find a larger community to post to for engagement. For example, on Reddit I would subscribe to the WinnipegJets team sub, but on Lemmy it is too quiet. So instead I post my Jets content to the more general Hockey community so we can have some discussion. This will change over time.

(8) A good place to find communities to subscribe to is: https://lemmyverse.net/communities – copy and paste the community name – eg: !technology@lemmy.world – into the search bar and then subscribe.

(9) Meow

(10) Try different sort options. New or Scales are my favourites.

A quick hello from a new community member. Thank you to the folks who set this up, and to participants in this community generally. You give me hope.

Hello. Nice to see a Canadian alternative to reddit.