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They must be those cool folks from r/onguardforthee and r/fredericton! Lets get off those american Reddit servers eh!
Update: thereβs a thread on r/buycanadian with 93 upvotes, promoting the platform! Open the floodgates baby!
I do a double-take when I see somebody noticing social media stats.
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!
Can I pay you in maple syrup?
That's almost more stable than the canadian dollars these days, I might consider ;)
Congrats. Canada needs to build its own social media infrastructure.
They should also build a wall so our stupid stays south of their sovereign border.
Not all of us are stupid. Just a majority. No more than 3/4. Maybe. On a really good day.
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.
Is this grafana public? I'd like to check for jlai.lu, we also had a recent influx of users.
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:
Just joined to get away from Reddit - Iβm pleasantly surprised with how active it seems here despite the much smaller community! This is exciting!
We like to party too!
Question for you: are pretty much all of the users Canadian or in Canada? Is it possible to tell?
You can join communities on other instances too if you have specific interests.
I'm not on lemmy.ca but as a moose I appreciate this post and my fellow Canadians π¨π¦π«
There's some Facebook 'buy Canadian' groups with over half a million people in - this server occasionally comes up there too when people are looking for Canadian hosted discussion sites to ditch big American tech like reddit or Facebook groups.
Thank you for informing me as that brings a smile to my face.
former r/onguardforthee fan here ... I've been on Lemmy.ca now for over a year ... happy to see others are hopping on board and jumping off the burning train wreck
ADDITION TO MY ORIGINAL .... one thing we current users of Lemmy should point out to any new users that are joining Lemmy either here at Lemmy.ca or any other fediverse instance is to REMIND EVERYONE TO DONATE TO AND SUPPORT THE INSTANCE THEY ARE ON. It's great that all this stuff is free for us to use but there are people here who work to develop, maintain and upgrade the source software and there are groups of people who maintain and manage the instances that we all use. We can't expect all these people to work for free. Many of them may not mind working for free and they might even enjoy it but there will come times when they either can't do it any more or they just run out of money, resources and time and energy to manage things as they grow more and more popular. No one complains when things are working but everyone will scream and shout as soon as their instance fails for one reason or another. Everyone or as many people as possible should find a bit of money to support their instance or the developers. Even if everyone gave a dollar, that would add up to thousands. If we keep these instances and the people that work and maintain all this well funded then we can all be safe and secure from any corporate rot that might creep into our communities.
Update: we just hit 9.2k! Keep up the surge folks! Keep Shadow busy tonight!
Doesn't the new server support at least 10x-100x the current capacity? I think it was a huge machine compared to the old one. I guess storage is separate.
Thatβs a lot of potential wiggle room. 92k to 920k potential registered users while currently LW has 174k, thatβs one crazy hardware upgrade. The servers will become cheaper to run in the future as we put to use our economies of scale.
There isnβt room for multiple social media in my life and i will try with only Lemmy for a few months. I did came from r/BuyCanadian with curiosity more than the US boycott in mind. I plead guilty!
I switched to Lemmy.ca with the first wave and have found zero reasons to go back to Reddit since.
There are nifty migration tools that help you find Lemmy equivalent communities for the subreddits you were subscribed to.
Its a great time to join. I think many of us have been lurkers in reddit and now with the tides of change we need to also make Lemmy active, especially the Canadian sites
Ooo, there's a Canadian Rexit happening? Cool! I keep my Reddit usage much more focused on niche hobby communities now, and there's zero talk of Reddit politics on those yet, sadly.
Oh Canada, we must come together to protect our country from the insane monsters south of our border.
Nope, here for a break from the drama on r/ehbuddyhoser.
Should probably find a place to cross post some of their memes here now that I think of it. The Bay of Nova Scotia was gold.
I was going to post my standard Tankie Triad warning for new users, but looks like lemmy.ca defed's from the entire Triad already LMAO
...I need to move to Canada....
What caused it?
I heard Reddit was going to charge subscriptions for subreddits.
Also they banned a bunch of porn and lgbt subs.
