Otter @ otter @lemmy.ca

I waddled onto the beach and ~~stole~~ *found* a computer to use.

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Good to hear it worked out :)

The AI chats don't seem to give a straight answer on ANY issue. They always give a waffle-y answer that tries to account for 'both sides'

Odd, I did have some issues myself when I signed up with the pixelfed.social instance a while back, which resolved by themselves later on.

Do you have the same issue on incognito?

Welcome Welcome!

Thank you! I've edited the post now

We've messaged back and forth :) Nothing official yet

Would be pretty cool if we could support the mastodon folks in some way as well!

Agreed!

I always need more cat pictures

I guess it should be 'How did a Delta plane crash-land and end up upside down'

Dr. Doom & MF Doom approve

Welcome 😊

Welcome back 😊

Any communities worth looking at?

If you're looking for communities related to those recent events, then !buycanadian@lemmy.ca and !canada@lemmy.ca come to mind as being relevant.

Otherwise a lot of new communities have emerged (or migrated) from 2 years ago. We have this guide now on finding communities, you could try the lemmyverse suggestion with topics you're looking into

https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/how-to-find-communities

I'm not sure if there was a particularly viral post (aside from a few mentions of r/BuyCanadian), but I know we've also been mentioned in comment sections all over. Copying from another comment:

Going off of what people have mentioned in the registration applications, it is a combination of

• wanting to support Canadian, and avoiding American tech companies (due to tariffs and other concerns)
• concerns with how big tech has changed for the worse these past few months
• Reddit's recent actions, such as banning (and then reversing) a bunch of communities and the recent paywall announcement
• learning about it for the first time and being excited about the concept

The first point is why lemmy.ca has seen more relative growth this week than the others, but a lot of fediverse instances have seen growth recently

Welcome :)

We ban spammers and remove all their content fairly quickly once we get a report, sometimes within minutes if we're online at the time. Could you report the post/message so we can deal with it?

For what it's worth, once in a while I'll search the spam URLs and the same junk is posted across Reddit and other sites. Worse, some of those posts have been up for months

I'll edit the context into the title so it's not clickbait, I thought it was worth sharing a younger person's perspective is all 😄

How does that work, is it done through school?

There was some discussion about it here (Canada) last summer

https://globalnews.ca/news/10610765/bc-mandatory-swimming-lessons/

They're from a good while before, and I'm not sure it would be appropriate for your use case.

Matrix is much closer to the Slack / Discord format. It IS a bit more complicated than those two, especially if you're self hosting it, but it has a lot of similar functionality

Thanks! I've noted that down

That's very considerate, thank you :)

I've played with bookmarklets before, so it wasn't too much trouble. I don't normally use Alexandrite, but from my quick exploration it seems that Alexandrite URLs are very similar to the default ones, where it just appends alex.lemmy.ca/ to the start. If that is the case, the following steps should work. The steps are for Firefox, but it should be similar on other browsers:

1. Right-click on the bookmark bar and click Add Bookmark
2. Put anything you want in the name
3. In the URL field, paste in this block of code:

    
javascript:(function(){
    let currentURL = window.location.href;
    if (currentURL.startsWith('https://lemmy.ca/')) {
        window.location.href = currentURL.replace('https://lemmy.ca/', 'https://alex.lemmy.ca/lemmy.ca/');
    }
})();

  

When you are on any lemmy.ca page, clicking on the bookmark should take you to the corresponding alex.lemmy.ca page. You can also make one to go in the opposite direction, with this block of code:

    
javascript:(function(){
    let currentURL = window.location.href;
    if (currentURL.startsWith('https://alex.lemmy.ca/lemmy.ca/')) {
        window.location.href = currentURL.replace('https://alex.lemmy.ca/lemmy.ca/', 'https://lemmy.ca/');
    } else if (currentURL === 'https://alex.lemmy.ca/lemmy.ca') {
        window.location.href = 'https://lemmy.ca/';
    }
})();

  

Hopefully that works!

We haven't revisited our donation methods yet, but we will at some point.

If you have a moment, could you share why you'd prefer to have Librapay / Open collective over the existing options? No wrong answers, I just wanted to copy it into our notes for when we revisit all that