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!

  • Snowstorm@lemmy.caEnglish
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    6 days ago

    I challenge every newbies to create 1-3 posts over the first 72 h here : what do you enjoy in social media usually? It doesn’t have to be perfectly new if it’s new on Lemmy: your favourite Reddit group isn’t represented here or silent for a while : show us a glimpse of what you like and see how much engagement you receive.

  • tazzy@lemm.eeEnglish
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    7 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

  • Prince_SKyle@lemm.eeEnglish
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    7 days ago

    after seeing a thread on r/buycanadian saying “petition to rename the Americano, a Canadiano” I knew the next step was to head over here & make an account lol

  • ehpolitical@lemmy.caEnglish
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    7 days ago

    It’s is a bit embarrassing to admit, but this is the first time I’ve cried during our national anthem.

    God keep our land glorious and free!
    O Canada, we stand on guard for thee!

    O Canada

  • vastard@lemmynsfw.com
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    8 days ago

    Is there a problem using an email alias to sign up? I applied more than a week ago. I recognize it’s a lot of work but I was wondering if I had been accidentally been binned as a bot.

  • Shadow@lemmy.ca
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    8 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, only things we federate with):

      • Shadow@lemmy.ca
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        8 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:

        • lemmyng@lemmy.caEnglish
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          7 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.

          • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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            7 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@lemmy.ca
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              7 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.

    • Quokka@quokk.au
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      8 days ago

      I heard Reddit was going to charge subscriptions for subreddits.

      Also they banned a bunch of porn and lgbt subs.

      • Makeshift@sh.itjust.works
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        8 days ago

        Wait is there any validity to that first one?

        I know the second one happened for like a day and they tried to say ‘Just a bug!’ thinking no one would see past their totally brilliant cover-up.

        That first one would be huge. Maybe a hammer for all the nails they been gathering to their coffin!