otter

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[–] otter 6 points 20 hours ago

I'm not sure if there was a particularly viral post (aside from a few mentions of r/BuyCanadian), but I know we've also been mentioned in comment sections all over. Copying from another comment:


Going off of what people have mentioned in the registration applications, it is a combination of

  • wanting to support Canadian, and avoiding American tech companies (due to tariffs and other concerns)
  • concerns with how big tech has changed for the worse these past few months
  • Reddit's recent actions, such as banning (and then reversing) a bunch of communities and the recent paywall announcement
  • learning about it for the first time and being excited about the concept

The first point is why lemmy.ca has seen more relative growth this week than the others, but a lot of fediverse instances have seen growth recently

[–] otter 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] otter 3 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

We ban spammers and remove all their content fairly quickly once we get a report, sometimes within minutes if we're online at the time. Could you report the post/message so we can deal with it?

For what it's worth, once in a while I'll search the spam URLs and the same junk is posted across Reddit and other sites. Worse, some of those posts have been up for months

[–] otter 10 points 1 day ago

I'll edit the context into the title so it's not clickbait, I thought it was worth sharing a younger person's perspective is all 😄

 

From the newsletter

I'm not a gamer, but my 13-year-old son is. All of his classmates play games on Windows, and he has tried almost everything too.

But now he has found a Linux gaming console, and we are both happy with it. He can play, and he doesn't spend all his money on a Windows gaming PC which will never work the way he wants. And what's the best? The Arch Linux and the KDE desktop on it!

If you are interested, he wrote about it here: https://www.hellotux.com/2025_02_16_Finally-a-Linux-gaming-console

Hellotux being that family business that partners with open source projects / linux distros to make merch for them

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Disclaimer: The newsletters are put out by an investment management company. While the content may be helpful in some ways, there is a potential bias:

[–] otter 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not sure if this one counts as PC gaming, so if it doesn't quite fit I'm happy to delete it

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/39264127

Flashpoint Archive is a community effort to preserve games and animations from the web.

Internet history and culture is important, and the web is evolving at such a rapid pace that what might be commonplace today could be obsolete tomorrow. This project is dedicated to preserving as many experiences from these platforms as possible, so that they aren't lost to time. Since December 2017, over 200,000 games and animations have been preserved across more than a hundred browser plugins and web technologies.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/39264127

Flashpoint Archive is a community effort to preserve games and animations from the web.

Internet history and culture is important, and the web is evolving at such a rapid pace that what might be commonplace today could be obsolete tomorrow. This project is dedicated to preserving as many experiences from these platforms as possible, so that they aren't lost to time. Since December 2017, over 200,000 games and animations have been preserved across more than a hundred browser plugins and web technologies.

 

Flashpoint Archive is a community effort to preserve games and animations from the web.

Internet history and culture is important, and the web is evolving at such a rapid pace that what might be commonplace today could be obsolete tomorrow. This project is dedicated to preserving as many experiences from these platforms as possible, so that they aren't lost to time. Since December 2017, over 200,000 games and animations have been preserved across more than a hundred browser plugins and web technologies.

[–] otter 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How does that work, is it done through school?

There was some discussion about it here (Canada) last summer

https://globalnews.ca/news/10610765/bc-mandatory-swimming-lessons/

[–] otter 1 points 1 day ago

They're from a good while before, and I'm not sure it would be appropriate for your use case.

Matrix is much closer to the Slack / Discord format. It IS a bit more complicated than those two, especially if you're self hosting it, but it has a lot of similar functionality

[–] otter 8 points 1 day ago

Adding to the question, keep an eye out for any songs by Canadian artists! We can submit the best ones in the next [email protected]

 

I mashed my keyboard and that Wikipedia article came up.

More links:

[–] otter 2 points 1 day ago

Thanks! I've noted that down

[–] otter 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's very considerate, thank you :)

I've played with bookmarklets before, so it wasn't too much trouble. I don't normally use Alexandrite, but from my quick exploration it seems that Alexandrite URLs are very similar to the default ones, where it just appends alex.lemmy.ca/ to the start. If that is the case, the following steps should work. The steps are for Firefox, but it should be similar on other browsers:

  1. Right-click on the bookmark bar and click Add Bookmark
  2. Put anything you want in the name
  3. In the URL field, paste in this block of code:
javascript:(function(){
    let currentURL = window.location.href;
    if (currentURL.startsWith('https://lemmy.ca/')) {
        window.location.href = currentURL.replace('https://lemmy.ca/', 'https://alex.lemmy.ca/lemmy.ca/');
    }
})();

When you are on any lemmy.ca page, clicking on the bookmark should take you to the corresponding alex.lemmy.ca page. You can also make one to go in the opposite direction, with this block of code:

javascript:(function(){
    let currentURL = window.location.href;
    if (currentURL.startsWith('https://alex.lemmy.ca/lemmy.ca/')) {
        window.location.href = currentURL.replace('https://alex.lemmy.ca/lemmy.ca/', 'https://lemmy.ca/');
    } else if (currentURL === 'https://alex.lemmy.ca/lemmy.ca') {
        window.location.href = 'https://lemmy.ca/';
    }
})();

Hopefully that works!

[–] otter 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

We haven't revisited our donation methods yet, but we will at some point.

If you have a moment, could you share why you'd prefer to have Librapay / Open collective over the existing options? No wrong answers, I just wanted to copy it into our notes for when we revisit all that

[–] otter 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

We're pretty reasonable with moderation here. The way Lemmy works, mod actions are recorded publicly for transparency. You can access those records here, but as a warning before you open the page, "Some deleted posts may contain disturbing or adult material": https://lemmy.ca/modlog

So far we've only banned users site wide when it was a consistent problem (ex. spam bot, harassing other users). However, we do need to remove comments that are clearly against the law in Canada, else we couldn't keep operating.

It really comes down to what the comment is. If you look through the threads on here, a lot of people are already expressing how they feel, or what Canada's/Canadians' response should be. Where it might be a problem is if someone says they're going to do something violent/illegal, or call for someone else to do it

Hopefully that makes sense?

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Image source for anyone that came across the post anyway: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canadian_Beaver_-_Castor_du_Canada.jpg

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We have gotten a lot of new signups over the past few days, and we're all very excited to have you joining us! You'll find that people are more than happy to help you get started and learn how to use the site.

If you feel up for it, you can introduce yourself or ask questions below!

We have put together some resources to help new users get started:

You can also read:

These guides were published very recently, and we will be updating them over time. If you find that something is confusing or missing, please let us know and we can improve them further.

For an organized list of Canadian communities (provinces/territories, Cities / Local , Sports, Schools, BuyCanadian, CanadaPolitics etc.), see this post on [email protected]. You can also ask about communities in places like [email protected].

We also encourage you to check out [email protected], so that others can help you / learn from your questions.

Welcome to Lemmy :)

 

The New Brunswick Medical Society is calling on Horizon Health and the Department of Health to cancel the virtual care service being tested at two rural emergency departments.

The professional association, which represents more than 2,000 physicians, argues that Horizon's contract with Teladoc Health Canada is a misuse of nearly $866,000 in a time of "crisis," and warns that it will lead to more small ERs closing.

The medical society worries small and rural ERs will have an even harder time recruiting doctors if they can sign up to be on-call virtually to see the least-critical patients for the same pay as doctors who work full time on site and see all levels all levels of patients. (Horizon Health Network/Facebook)

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Please see [email protected]

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