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

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[–] Moose@moose.best 48 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I'm not on lemmy.ca but as a moose I appreciate this post and my fellow Canadians πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ«Ž

[–] mPony@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

hey guys check out this moose over here.

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[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago (9 children)
[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 months ago

We can promote both! I just know Lemmy.ca more.

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[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I pictured something more like this.

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[–] Spruce_Gum@lemmy.ca 63 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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!

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Werewolf_Cop@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 months ago (6 children)

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.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I would assume most users are Canadian as they would have more related interests here.

[–] tigolbitties@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 months ago

Hi, I use sh.itjust.works, another fantastic Canadian instance, and I'm British! Big love!

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[–] Slax@sh.itjust.works 29 points 3 months 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

[–] ThePrivacyPolicy@lemmy.ca 41 points 3 months ago (5 children)

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.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 18 points 3 months ago

Thank you for informing me as that brings a smile to my face.

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[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 35 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Update: we just hit 9.2k! Keep up the surge folks! Keep Shadow busy tonight!

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago

Now that you spell out these numbers, probably not 100x. πŸ˜‚

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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....

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well except for Lemmy.ml. You must be thinking about Lemmy.cafe.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

Heck yeah! Let’s make this ship rad!

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 months ago

Welcome fellow canucks!

I look forward to the communities you create and contribute to!

[–] LMurch@thelemmy.club 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

And us Americans from reddit and month old Rednote accounts.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 months ago

Welcome!

Please check out the open-source !loops@midwest.social

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