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!
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.
Is this grafana public? I’d like to check for jlai.lu, we also had a recent influx of users.
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:
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.
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
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.
Nice, thank you!
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!Just joined today. Happy to be here and away from reddit!!
You made it to safety! Welcome!
Good on you mate. Welcome
Good day, eh!
Struth, mate!
…wait
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
Fuckin’ a. Welcome
Yesssss! So cool!
Your account is as fresh as bread!
Lol, I hope that’s a good thing.
I still hear the crunch. You’re good bread!
Lol, phew, good!
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!
Let’s talk =)
Let the collaborations begin ;)
Let us know if you get this setup!
Can I pay you in maple syrup?
Supplied from beautiful Quebec!
Quebec really is beautiful. Haven’t been in ages, would love to go back one day.
There’s great fishing in Quebec.
And cheese!
That’s almost more stable than the canadian dollars these days, I might consider ;)
rare hockey cards only, chum
That’s so great yo, thank you from all fediversians
Also sorry from all USAians with brains 😭 srsly
Seize the memes of production!
that’s good
Welcome all , lets keep it going . Also thanks for the super admin we got here .
Lemmy is love. Welcome everyone :)
We’re bunch of fluffy taneggs!
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.
Also there’s a Quebec friendica instance called https://onjase.quebec/
They have 29 users and an uptime of 95%
Thank you for informing me as that brings a smile to my face.
A Facebook exodus!
Canadian Friendica will be here soon!
It’s URL is friendi.ca!
There isn’t room for multiple social media in my life and i will try with only Lemmy for a few months. I did came from r/BuyCanadian with curiosity more than the US boycott in mind. I plead guilty!
Nice so they were talking about us there!
I switched to Lemmy.ca with the first wave and have found zero reasons to go back to Reddit since.
There are nifty migration tools that help you find Lemmy equivalent communities for the subreddits you were subscribed to.
Likewise, but I still go to reddit via searches if the other results aren’t helping me out. At this point it’s more an act of desperation than desire, though.
Welcome! Have fun!
No need to feel guilty about doing the right thing.
And there’s not an endless stream of content on lemmy, so it doesn’t eat up too much time.
Ooo, there’s a Canadian Rexit happening? Cool! I keep my Reddit usage much more focused on niche hobby communities now, and there’s zero talk of Reddit politics on those yet, sadly.
Welcome everyone.
It’s getting crowded in here! There are so many moose now!
I think I found Lemmy from r/EhBuddyHoser, sweet find!
May I ask which post has lead you here?
