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!

  • slym@lemmy.ca
    4·
    4 hours ago

    Welcome all , lets keep it going . Also thanks for the super admin we got here .

  • Spruce_Gum@lemmy.caEnglish
    53·
    19 hours 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!

      • Werewolf_Cop@lemmy.caEnglish
        13·
        18 hours ago

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

        • Kichae@lemmy.caEnglish
          7·
          8 hours 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.

          • nyan@lemmy.cafeEnglish
            51·
            8 hours 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.

  • g3ek@lemmy.ca
    130·
    24 hours 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!

  • ThePrivacyPolicy@lemmy.ca
    36·
    20 hours 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.

  • slax@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    28·
    20 hours ago

    Its a great time to join. I think many of us have been lurkers in reddit and now with the tides of change we need to also make Lemmy active, especially the Canadian sites

    • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
      13·
      21 hours 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)@lemmy.caOP
        15·
        20 hours 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.

  • Shadow@lemmy.ca
    59·
    24 hours 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.

      • Shadow@lemmy.ca
        25·
        22 hours 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:

        • lemmyng@lemmy.caEnglish
          5·
          10 hours 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.

          • tetris11@lemmy.ml
            4·
            7 hours 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