Wow, we have doubled in size in around a week! Next week should be interesting!

  • @[email protected]
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    292 years ago

    As a Canadian, I really appreciate this Lemmy instance. This might sound silly, but I feel a little bit of patriotism logging into a .ca website hosted in Canada.

    • @eric3a
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      52 years ago

      French and English bilingual here, not Canadian though, so thought it’d be a good place to start my Lemmy adventure.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 years ago

        Canadians are a welcoming bunch. As long as tou enjoy maple syrup and Hockey (I kid).

        Welcome aboard, Friend!!

  • @[email protected]
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    222 years ago

    I think this is great. I’m following the spez shitshow whilst my reddit comments delete in the background. I’m going all in on lemmy.ca.

    I hope to see more users and engagement in a few weeks. :)

    • Mars
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      42 years ago

      Planning to also wipe my Reddit history and go all-in on Lemmy.

      What have you been using to mass-delete your Reddit content? RES?

      • @[email protected]
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        42 years ago

        I discovered Redact (https://redact.dev/) which looks pretty awesome for mass deleting Reddit, Twitter, Facebook & dozens more. It’s got lots of options for mass deleting, auto-deleting based on criteria or even picking through your posts and choosing specifically which ones you want to delete.

  • Em Adespoton
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    142 years ago

    Any idea how the other Lemmies are faring? I’d guess ml must be expanding significantly faster….

      • SR Gray
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        42 years ago

        They’re just over 2.7k right now, probably be over 3k by end of day.

        I wouldn’t expect our 1.1k to balloon nearly as quickly, but it will be nice to snag more Canadians from the reddit-exodus.

    • @[email protected]
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      62 years ago

      When I was looking for an instance to sign up a few days ago, lemmy.ml had a notice suggesting people sign up on another instance, as they’re being absolutely flooded with new people. Seems like a good problem to have

    • @[email protected]OPM
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      62 years ago

      according to archive.org, on June 1 .ml was at 26.7k, and they are now at 32.9k, so that’s quite a gain in just over a week.

      they are also working on (and i think close to releasing) some performance improvements which should help too.

  • @[email protected]
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    2 years ago

    The reason I joined was because I saw that Lemmy’s developer account had been suspended on Reddit.

  • @[email protected]
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    92 years ago

    When I migrated from Digg to Reddit, I didn’t look back, even if reddit was much smaller at that time.

    Similarity, I won’t look back at Reddit now. I’m happy to be among others that are like minded.

    • @[email protected]
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      42 years ago

      Size doesn’t matter as much as people think it does. As long as there’s enough size for communities to talk to each other, you don’t need giant threads with thousands of votes and comments. Hell, most of the subreddits I liked the best were some of the smaller ones dedicated to a more niche interest

  • @[email protected]
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    82 years ago

    Wouldn’t have found this without the whole Reddit fiasco and it’s a great thing I did. I would still be mindlessly scrolling through posts that are uninteresting with ads everywhere (I didn’t know Apollo existed). Hopefully this is a start to something exciting here!

    • masterofn001
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      12 years ago

      I fewl that I’ve read more articles from comments today on Lemmy than the rest of this year on Reddit.

      Something about Lemmy seeems, I don’t know, a little less dumpster-fire rage-bait hate-fuel.

      There was a moment earlier today where I received a reply notification from Reddit and was almost tempted. But, no, I’m here now.

  • @[email protected]
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    52 years ago

    I’ve been spreading the word on Reddit, and I’ve started the board games and TabletopRPGs communities, I’m excited to see this take off! :)

  • @[email protected]
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    42 years ago

    Would you have a ratio of donations per user to keep this instance up and running?

    More than happy to help keep this going.