Canada @lemmy.ca Sunshine (she/her) @lemmy.ca 7d ago

I had to do a double take when I saw Lemmy.ca spiked to 9.1k registered users

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!

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- Let's talk =)
  
  Let the collaborations begin ;)
- Can I pay you in maple syrup?
  
  That's almost more stable than the canadian dollars these days, I might consider ;)
  
  Supplied from beautiful Quebec!
  
  rare hockey cards only, chum
- That’s so great yo, thank you from all fediversians
  
  Also sorry from all USAians with brains 😭 srsly
I think I found Lemmy from r/EhBuddyHoser, sweet find!
- May I ask which post has lead you here?
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!
- We like to party too!
  
  Question for you: are pretty much all of the users Canadian or in Canada? Is it possible to tell?
- Welcome!
I'm not on lemmy.ca but as a moose I appreciate this post and my fellow Canadians 🇨🇦🫎
- hey guys check out this moose over here.
  
  Are you a tiny moose?
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:
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.
- A Facebook exodus!
  
  Canadian Friendica will be here soon!
- Thank you for informing me as that brings a smile to my face.
- Also there's a Quebec friendica instance called https://onjase.quebec/
  
  They have 29 users and an uptime of 95%
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
- Fuckin' a. Welcome
Wait you mean .ca is Canada and not California??
- California would be .ca.us but nearly no one uses .us addresses, a few states point their .us domain at their .com domain
- It could be both if you joined us
  
  Would they join Canada, or we we join them? Does it even matter?!
- r/sellcalifornia
  
  !sellcalifornia
- I've known this for almost as long as I've been on lemmy... but I still read it as lemmy California at first.
Seize the memes of production!
- that's good
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.
  
  That’s a lot of potential wiggle room. 92k to 920k potential registered users while currently LW has 174k, that’s one crazy hardware upgrade. The servers will become cheaper to run in the future as we put to use our economies of scale.
Oh Canada, we must come together to protect our country from the insane monsters south of our border.
- The insane monsters in canada too. Cough pp Cough danielle Smith Cough cough
  
  Unfortunately, she has a couple years of term left. Then Nenshi can eat her lunch.
- It's, "O Canada," which means something very different than, "Oh, Canada."
  
  And a new AO3 tag is born...
  
  Why did I never notice that before?
- Do we? Because this feels to me like a ruling class problem. Labour class is a lot less affected, and our efforts are mostly helping the exact same set of oligarchs who are working both sides of the border.
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.
There isn’t 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.
  
  Likewise, but I still go to reddit via searches if the other results aren't helping me out. At this point it's more an act of desperation than desire, though.
- Nice so they were talking about us there!
- No need to feel guilty about doing the right thing.
  
  And there's not an endless stream of content on lemmy, so it doesn't eat up too much time.
- Welcome! Have fun!
Lemmy is love. Welcome everyone :)
- We’re bunch of fluffy taneggs!
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
Just joined today. Happy to be here and away from reddit!!
- Good on you mate. Welcome
- You made it to safety! Welcome!
It’s a new world for me too. Thanks for having me.
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
- If you're talking coffee, Australia calls that a long black, though some are trying to import "americano" to mean "like a long black, but add the coffee before the water"
- That’s enough reddit for one day!
Yesssss! So cool!
- Your account is as fresh as bread!
  
  Lol, I hope that's a good thing.
Good day, eh!
- Struth, mate!
  
  ...wait
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.
Doing my part and reporting in! 🫡
- A fresh cadet!
Update 2: 9.3k users has been hit! It keeps going!
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.
- Done [email protected]
- Making c/ehbuddyhoser is an option
  
  Do it. [email protected] needs friends.
- Please. That's one of the few reasons I go to Reddit, getting some of that maple memes.
Welcome everyone.
- It’s getting crowded in here! There are so many moose now!
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....
- Well except for Lemmy.ml. You must be thinking about Lemmy.cafe.
  
  Oh I double checked and you don't, but I saw enterprise.lemmy.ml and voyager.lemmy.ml sub domains and assumed the main lemmy.ml was as well lol
What caused it?
- I heard Reddit was going to charge subscriptions for subreddits.
  
  Also they banned a bunch of porn and lgbt subs.
  
  Wait is there any validity to that first one?
  
  I know the second one happened for like a day and they tried to say ‘Just a bug!’ thinking no one would see past their totally brilliant cover-up.
  
  That first one would be huge. Maybe a hammer for all the nails they been gathering to their coffin!
Welcome all , lets keep it going . Also thanks for the super admin we got here .
I pictured something more like this.
- I'm not Canadian but I have watched letterkenny at a Holiday Inn Express.
- Be nice to Canadians especially those ones.
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
I challenge every newbies to create 1-3 posts over the first 72 h here : what do you enjoy in social media usually? It doesn’t have to be perfectly new if it’s new on Lemmy: your favourite Reddit group isn’t represented here or silent for a while : show us a glimpse of what you like and see how much engagement you receive.
Welcome fellow canucks!

I look forward to the communities you create and contribute to!
Why not sh.itjust.works?
- Your instance doesn’t really matter that much but personally, I feel like the bigger instances will be the ones more prone to enshitification.
  
  The admins over here are Canadian and have set up a non-profit to keep everything they’re doing above board, so I like them. :)
  
  Check out https://fedecan.ca/en/
  
  Feddit.uk are also using a nice opencollective funding model, so it seems like these projects are nicely decentivised against a rogue admin selling the domain or selling the actual server
- We can promote both! I just know Lemmy.ca more.
- Why not lemmygrad, hexbear, or .ml?
  
  because of the tankies lol. don't pretend you don't know about the reputation those instances have.
  
  Those aren't Canadian to start....
Is there a problem using an email alias to sign up? I applied more than a week ago. I recognize it’s a lot of work but I was wondering if I had been accidentally been binned as a bot.
- Not usually. Can you dm me the account name or email and I'll look later tonight?
  
  canadAsucks@[email protected]
- @[email protected]
That's awesome
- All the new people are pretty cute!
And us Americans from reddit and month old Rednote accounts.
- Welcome!
  
  Please check out the open-source [email protected]
- Welcome!
I do a double-take when I see somebody noticing social media stats.

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