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

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    1 year 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.

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    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. :)

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      1 year 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?

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        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.

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      1 year ago

      Yep I shredded my ancient account before deletion, no google search revenue for spez.

  • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

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

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    1 year ago

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

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    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.

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      1 year 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

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    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@lemmy.ca
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      1 year 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.

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    1 year 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! :)

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    1 year 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.

    • smorks@lemmy.caOPM
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      1 year ago

      if 5 users contributed $5/month, that would cover the hosting fees. does that help?