Wow, we have doubled in size in around a week! Next week should be interesting!
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.
Glad to have you here, bud.
French and English bilingual here, not Canadian though, so thought it’d be a good place to start my Lemmy adventure.
Canadians are a welcoming bunch. As long as tou enjoy maple syrup and Hockey (I kid).
Welcome aboard, Friend!!
Same,feels like home.
3 days later we’ve crossed 2k. Exciting stuff.
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! :)
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. :)
Happy to be part of it! Just joined today.
How are the hamsters in the wheel holding up @smorks@lemmy.ca ?
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!
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.
Boy oh boy, that old '486 this instance is running on is gonna get a workout!!
it’s actually a 386 DX. haven’t gotten around to upgrading it yet.
What kind of bandwidth and storage requirements might one expect with these user counts? I’m considering self-hosting an instance for migrating a couple of mostly text-based subs I work with (30-40K users).
that’s tough to say. i mean if it’s mostly text-based there shouldn’t be a lot of bandwidth or storage requirements.
Would you have a ratio of donations per user to keep this instance up and running?
More than happy to help keep this going.
if 5 users contributed $5/month, that would cover the hosting fees. does that help?
Any idea how the other Lemmies are faring? I’d guess ml must be expanding significantly faster….
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