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!
Reddit old-timer from Toronto here. Happy to see how fast the Fediverse is evolving thanks to u/spez. Feels like the internet again.
Okay this federated stuff is really growing on me.
The idea that you can sign up on any server, and still have a feed from many different servers is pretty cool.
Hey fellow (mostly) Canadians! Reddit Refugee of 13 years, this is my first Lemmy experience. I originally made a Lemmy.world account, but moved here as I felt more comfortable having the server hosted in Canada for data integrity/security.
Seems like a neat place, the distributed/“federated” stuff was a bit confusing at first, but seems neat. I guess we’ll see how big the migration from Reddit to here is.
My first post, and hopefully the picture i attached works. This is Loki, my 27 year old macaw, one of 2 rainbow chickens i have
This here’s my birds
so friggin cute! i miss having chickens. no more free breakfast!
Lol this Mlem app is sweet but I can’t see your photo, it just shows up as large but I can’t scroll along it.
cute
BC here, yet another reddit refugee. New to the fediverse and still trying to figure it out.
New Brunswick Reddit refuge…
Redditor of 12 years chiming in from BC :P
Another Western Canadian reddit refugee here. I still can’t decide if I consider myself Albertan or British Columbian. I’ve spent about an equal amount of my life in each province. Alberta does have the lower drinking age and less taxes so it might edge out the competition.
Fifteen-year veteran of reddit checking in. So glad to be a part of this societal shift, and excited to see where we go from here!
If anyone else is missing an old-reddit/digg style UI on the desktop, I’ve published Rediggit for Lemmy. It’s very much a work-in-progress, but it should scratch that immediate itch for more legroom. Currently for light theme only, but more coming (and feel free to hack away and shape my mess into something even better).
nice work! if I have some free time I may work this into a custom theme (with your approval, of course).
By all means! Mine itself is based off DarkFox’s Old reddit-ish Lemmy. I hope to do a full rewrite in the coming weeks, to incorporate dark mode and make it all more robust, but wanted to share for any other ex-redditors looking for a hotfix.
Hello from the forests of Quebec. I’m a huge fan of decentralization and open source tools. I will be hanging around here and watching reddit implode from afar. I was one of the digg exodus crowd, so I know that there is no way I can live without a link aggregator and discussion platform, lemmy seems like an instant win to me!
Hi,
Yet another Reddit migrant here. Stopped using RIF the day the blackout started and never went back.
I downloaded a app today called Connect for Lemmy from the Google app store. Seems ok so far, and decided to connect to your instance since, hey I’m in Canada.
I seemed to find a lot of the local communities I was in on Reddit here, however the content is not nearly as much as in Reddit. Hopefully more people migrate here.
If you ever do set something up to help fund the ongoing costs I’m definately in.
Hello from Ontario! Too bad we could not sign up with our existing Mastodon user account (is that even possible?).
@lexcyn@lemmy.ca @smorks Actually I guess I could just use my Mastodon account to reply/etc but doing it this way is a lot more confusing, haha
i was just going to tell you that you could do that, but you figured it out yourself, haha. unfortunately there’s currently no way to the the reverse (lemmy to mastodon), i don’t believe.
Fair enough, I will keep them separate anyways because navigating from Mastodon to Lemmy is a nightmare lol
yes, agreed, it’s not the most intuitive thing in the world. hopefully it gets easier as the platforms mature.
True - although since I use a dedicated Mastodon app on my phone, it lets me get notifications - hopefully there’s a Lemmy app soon!
btw transitioning my 13 year old Reddit account over here :)
Thanks for the welcome! I am from Sask originally, but currently residing in STILL FLIPPING SNOWY Nunavut!
No, I’m not bitter. Not at all. Nope. Too cold to be bitter.
Hi all, happy to be here. Just joined a few moments ago. Looking forward to discovering how the fediverse works in this context (also a mastodon user)!
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?
