They must be those cool folks from r/onguardforthee and r/fredericton! Lets get off those american Reddit servers eh!

Update: there’s a thread on r/buycanadian with 93 upvotes, promoting the platform! Open the floodgates baby!

  • Kichae@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 years ago

    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.

  • ThePrivacyPolicy@lemmy.ca
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    2 years ago

    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.

  • slax@sh.itjust.worksdeleted by creatorEnglish
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    2 years ago

    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

  • ehpolitical@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 years ago

    It’s is a bit embarrassing to admit, but this is the first time I’ve cried during our national anthem.

    God keep our land glorious and free!
    O Canada, we stand on guard for thee!

    O Canada

  • tazzy@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I’ll still learning how to use it and I don’t know what the lemmys are or how the communities work but I’m happy I’m not supporting Reddit eh

  • Spruce_Gum@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Just joined to get away from Reddit - I’m pleasantly surprised with how active it seems here despite the much smaller community! This is exciting!

      • Werewolf_Cop@lemmy.caEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Question for you: are pretty much all of the users Canadian or in Canada? Is it possible to tell?

        • Kichae@lemmy.caEnglish
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          2 years ago

          Users that you see with an email-like suffix to their name are using different websites and are less likely to be Camadian (though, as you know/ we are everywhere). Users without the suffix (if your client omits local addressing) are on lemmy.ca and are much more likely to be Canadian.

          • turtle [he/him]@lemm.eedeleted by creatorEnglish
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            2 years ago

            Users without the suffix (if your client omits local addressing) are on lemmy.ca

            Just FYI, I don’t believe that this is strictly true. In most cases it is, but I’ve seen many users outside my instance without the suffix. I believe that if someone edits their display name it drops the suffix, or at least it used to. Maybe that’s been corrected?

          • nyan@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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            2 years ago

            though, as you know/ we are everywhere

            True enough. I joined a British instance for reasons that seemed good enough to me at the time I signed up. I kind of pity any Canadian who decided to sign up with an American instance somewhere back in the depths of time, though—I don’t think Trump will manage to put a tariff on electrons, but I wouldn’t put it past him to try, and the last I checked, migration of accounts between servers in the Fediverse was still kind of half-baked.

  • Prince_SKyle@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 years ago

    after seeing a thread on r/buycanadian saying “petition to rename the Americano, a Canadiano” I knew the next step was to head over here & make an account lol

  • Shadow@lemmy.ca
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    2 years ago

    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, only things we federate with):

      • Shadow@lemmy.ca
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        2 years ago

        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:

        • lemmyng@lemmy.caEnglish
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          2 years ago

          A suggestion from someone who frequently deals with observability infrastructure: it’s a good idea to set up a postgres exporter and record your data as Prometheus metrics, that way querying the metrics does not hit any of the production stack.

          • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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            2 years ago

            Prometheus is the goat, and is built into a surprisingly large amount of FOSS service tools. JupyterHub for example includes Prometheus metrics out of the box

            • Shadow@lemmy.ca
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              2 years ago

              Eh. Calling it the goat is excessive. I’m planning to go victoriametrics instead.

              Yes the exporter format is common and widely supported though, which is nice.