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!

  • Guillaume Harvey
    150•6 days ago

    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!

  • @[email protected]English
    62•6 days 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!

      • @[email protected]English
        15•6 days ago

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

        • @[email protected]English
          10•5 days 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.

          • @[email protected]English
            5•5 days 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.

            • @[email protected]English
              1•3 days ago

              I like being in a regional instance, it means I can view local and see Australian news etc, it also means I don’t need to tell people where I’m from as often

          • turtle [he/him]English
            3•5 days 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?

          • @[email protected]English
            13•6 days ago

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

  • atomicpoet
    70•6 days ago

    Congrats. Canada needs to build its own social media infrastructure.

        • @tamal3
          5•5 days ago

          Let’s just put the argument to rest by becoming Canadian. Please?

  • Shadow
    58•6 days 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, so only things we federate with):

    Reddit’s announced some more changes but I suspect the whole tariff situation is pushing Canadians extra hard.

    • oce 🐆
      11•6 days ago

      Is this grafana public? I’d like to check for jlai.lu, we also had a recent influx of users.

      • Shadow
        24•6 days 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:

        • lemmyngEnglish
          7•6 days 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.

          • @[email protected]
            6•5 days 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
              5•5 days 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.

  • @[email protected]English
    15•5 days 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

  • @[email protected]
    39•6 days 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.

  • Lad
    23•6 days ago

    Wait you mean .ca is Canada and not California??

  • @CastorSulMush
    19•5 days ago

    Oh Canada, we must come together to protect our country from the insane monsters south of our border.

    • Avid Amoeba
      14•6 days ago

      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 (she/her)OP
        15•6 days ago

        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.

  • IninewCrowEnglish
    36•6 days ago

    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.