Otter @ otter @lemmy.ca

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

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We're pretty reasonable with moderation here. The way Lemmy works, mod actions are recorded publicly for transparency. You can access those records here, but as a warning before you open the page, "Some deleted posts may contain disturbing or adult material": https://lemmy.ca/modlog

So far we've only banned users site wide when it was a consistent problem (ex. spam bot, harassing other users). However, we do need to remove comments that are clearly against the law in Canada, else we couldn't keep operating.

It really comes down to what the comment is. If you look through the threads on here, a lot of people are already expressing how they feel, or what Canada's/Canadians' response should be. Where it might be a problem is if someone says they're going to do something violent/illegal, or call for someone else to do it

Hopefully that makes sense?

If you're on desktop, it might be possible to set up a JavaScript bookmarklet for that. I can take a look tonight.

You would still open the lemmy.ca link first, but you wouldn't need to modify the URL manually. You would click on the bookmarklet

Totally!

We were planning to do another census this winter, but we got busy with the new servers and spinning up new platforms.

You might have seen other comments asking about Pixelfed and Friendica. Pixelfed is to instagram in the way that Lemmy is to Reddit, and we're in the process of setting up a Canadian instance of Pixelfed right now. If all goes well, we may get more new people joining through there

Nope, lemmy.ca is Canadian and so is another big Lemmy instance called sh.itjust.works. There are also lots of smaller instances that are by Canadians. Since anyone can set up an instance, more technical users (with a background in that kind of thing) have set up instances for themselves or their friends / family. A university or local government could also set one up.

But the rest of the network is vast. A lot of the other Lemmy instances (ex. feddit.uk, jlai.lu) are European, aussie.zone is Australian, etc. Many of the instances are generalist instances not focusing on any location (lemmy.world, lemm.ee, etc) or topic specific (programming.dev is focussed on that).

I hope that's not too much information, I'm excited is all :)

Welcome! :)

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

For sure! If it helps, we put together this page on what the word means more generally (for all types of fediverse websites, and not just Lemmy). The infographic style images might be helpful

https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-started

For lemmy.ca specifically, you can think of the entire website as being one 'instance' of a larger network of similar websites. It is possible to shut down the 'federation' and just exist as our own isolated forum (similar to Reddit), but that defeats the purpose of running this kind of website.

This page should also help you see how it affects a Lemmy website like ours

https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/detailed-overview

What I like doing is posting to the small community first, and then cross posting from there

That way people in the larger community can follow the link back and learn about the community if they're interested. It also helps to mention the community at the start of the cross post since Lemmy doesn't do that automatically

We're in the process of getting pixelfed together :) see Shadow's comment

Here are some more tips, put together by @Rentlar@lemmy.ca in this post

Quick FAQ:

This is why the quantum expander device is helpful

What's the little guy snacking on 😄

I went to grab Bobby Tables and found this new variation

We can do that, which page do you feel needs it?

For example we moved some of the Lemmy introduction content to the detailed explanation page, and we can move more.

For some of the topic specific pages, I was thinking that anyone who was linked to the page might have already have gotten a brief TLDR from whoever linked to it

:)

Something fun on the point about dark / light modes, the screenshots on this page swap between dark and light versions when the site theme is toggled

https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/alternative-uis

The home page is here, and the Get Started button links to it

https://fedecan.ca/en/

We cut down on a lot of text from the initial drafts, so we can bring some of it back if the start is too jarring

Yup it did, we mentioned it here but I maybe we should make it more prominent? That video was one of the better explanations that I have seen so far, and there were a few things that we thought would be good to highlight on top of what it mentioned

https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/credits

Thanks for passing that along to us :)

This isn't really a federation problem, and more that there isn't a clear "winner" yet.

Even on centralized platforms, you end up with multiple communities for the same topic, until one of them grows enough to beat out the rest. Then eventually a scandal might cause it to fragment again. There are also separate communities that keep going independently because of ideological differences. See the various international news subreddits

The movies communities here were like that, but now there is a pretty clear "main community"

New Reddit gets a lot of complaints too (loading issues, freezing), but it's aimed at Reddit as a whole since newer users don't know that old Reddit is an option.

At the same time, if I only ever used new Reddit, I would also think that old Reddit looks wrong

It's also less likely to happen now. Back when that happened, users didn't have the ability to block instances and so it was up to the admins to do that for everyone.

It's now possible to block instances at the user level