Just joined. O Canada, NO America. :)
this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2025
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Welcome to Lemmy :)
Hello and welcome!
Hello. I’m new here ✌🏽
Welcome 😊
Hello, this place is kinda old school interwebs, I like it
Welcome!
We also have a few custom front ends, one of which is https://old.lemmy.ca/
Since it's developed by a third party, it's likely not as stable as the main interface, but it's fun to look at 😄
New user question; why is it that I cannot upvote? am I missing something? I tap the arrow and get 'invalid_bot_action' I can assure you I am a real human - I can pass most captchas 😆
You are currently labeled as a bot. You can change that in your account settings, there should be a checkbox "Bot account", uncheck it :)
Dang that was quick! Thank you! I am definitely not a bot, I enjoy human things like walking bipedally on my 2 legs and breathing oxygen rich air with my very human lungs!
That's what a bot would say. A human would complain about their microplastics-filled brain. 😂
That was very fast, thank you for responding so quickly 😄
Hi ho
Since Blaze's answer is comprehensive, I'm linking it here as well for anyone that comes across this: https://lemmy.ca/post/40668574/15756000
Hi thanks for welcoming. I joined this community because I was looking for a non u.s based social platform, that was like a reddit/message board, while being close to. Seems like a great social community on the Fediverse.
Glad to have you. Enjoy your time here!
Happy to have you here 😊
Salut/Hi there!
Welcome! 😊
Bonjour, all! 🙂
Bonjour! 😊
Bonjour all.
Beinvenue!
Bonjour, et bienvenue 😊
Hi everyone!
Welcome 😊
Bonjour, fellow Canadian Lemmies! I'd deleted my Reddit account in November, and was only lurking, so it's nice to have a voice in the conversation once more.
Welcome 😊
Not a new user but I'm actually finally deleting my Reddit acct. Just updating all my comments and posts now using redact. The recent news about Elon getting them to massage their content was enough. Fuck them.
edit - 15 years of comments takes a fucking long time to update humourously I've been banned from multiple communities because of using redact.dev
Well, now I must give it a try!
I deleted my reddit account a while ago. Sometimes I still lurk, but it hasn't been the same lately. I was a redditor since 2010.
Welcome to lemmy! I hope you like it here!
What exactly is an 'instance'?
Welcome!
I'd recommend looking through these two guides / infographics as they are a good introduction
How does Lemmy work, in detail
If you consider the network of email providers, then "gmail" could be considered one "instance" of the network. You can use it as a self-contained service, but the strength comes from being a part of the wider network.
So you can use lemmy.ca as if it was an isolated Canadian version of reddit, but the strength comes from being able to access communities from all over
So, Lemmy is software that lets you build an off-the-shelf content aggregation website, similar to how Wordpress lets you build an off-the-shelf blog. There are dozens of moderate to large websites running Lemmy, and hundreds of small or tiny ones running it.
Each one of these websites can, if the users and admins enable it, subscribe to communities hosted on other Lemmy-based websites, which lets them comment on posts in those communities, or even make their own posts to them.
Because this intercommunication allows users to treat remotely-hosted communities as if they are local to the user's website, it's common for people to think of the network of Lemmy-based websites as a signular entity. In this model, each of the independent websites running Lemmy gets called an "instance".
The same terminology is used for Mastodon-based websites, and other websites that allow for similar auto-syndication of content that creates a simulacrum of a centralized content environment. So, a "Lemmy instance" is a "website running Lemmy that is participating in active content syndication", a "Mastodon instance" is "a website running Mastodon that is participating in active content syndication", etc. You can replace "Mastodon" or "Lemmy" with "mbin", "Friendica", "PieFed", "Misskey", "Hubzilla", "PeerTube", "PixelFed", "BookWyrm", "FunkWhale", "nodeBB", or any number of other website engines that are participating in this type of ecosystem.
So, it sounds (actually, 'reads)' like a treatise written by someone indoctrinated into the 'Linux - C++' ideology (theocracy? The Religion of IT? Way back in the 'olden days', we referred to 'getting a job at IBM' as 'entering the Priesthood' ). The term 'instance' comes directly out of the obscure-to-the-masses lexicon of C++, Please, translate your indoctrinated terminology into something more identifiable and familiar to the masses in order for us plebians to follow it.
Or at least provide a 'definition of terms' translation service, written without any reference to exclusively in-house terminology in the description.
Also, it would be really, really useful to modify the 'messages' coding such that, when clicking to link to the post in 'messages' to see the original post, the reader went directly to their post in the thread, instead of starting at the top and having to scroll through page after page of other irrelevant posts in order to see just the activity on their original post.
That message behavior is more or less what happens in Boost for Lemmy. Whichever app/website you're using can implement that differently.
Just joined after being recommended on Reddit. The straw for me was a recent 7 day ban because I stated a historical fact on guerrilla war and America. Not sure when Americans got so delicate and all snowflake like but whatever. Glad to be here.
The techno-authoritarians are making their play for absolute power now. They're going to suppress opposition in general. They spent years getting everyone to use their tools, and this is why.
I'm not new. This is my second post already.
Welcome nonetheless 😄
Elbows up, hosers!
Elbows up!!!
Hello everyone, nice to e-meet you :D
Welcome :)
Hello. Nice to see a Canadian alternative to reddit.
Welcome :) Let us know if you need help with anything!
Hello! Still mostly hanging out at Reddit but I see the writing on the wall and am trying to at the very least diversify, and hopefully make a full switch soon. Very grateful that this is here - both Lemmy and this particular resource.
Welcome!
Still mostly hanging out at Reddit but I see the writing on the wall and am trying to at the very least diversify, and hopefully make a full switch soon
This is true for a lot of the new users, despite what the memes may suggest 😄
Is there a particular community on reddit that you'd like to see more of on here?
Established users, too. I'm still active on Reddit, just much less so than I used to be. And a lot of the biggest promoters of the Fediverse are still active there, doing what they can to promote Lemmy- and Mastodon-based sites.
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