former r/onguardforthee fan here … I’ve been on Lemmy.ca now for over a year … happy to see others are hopping on board and jumping off the burning train wreck

ADDITION TO MY ORIGINAL … one thing we current users of Lemmy should point out to any new users that are joining Lemmy either here at Lemmy.ca or any other fediverse instance is to REMIND EVERYONE TO DONATE TO AND SUPPORT THE INSTANCE THEY ARE ON. It’s great that all this stuff is free for us to use but there are people here who work to develop, maintain and upgrade the source software and there are groups of people who maintain and manage the instances that we all use. We can’t expect all these people to work for free. Many of them may not mind working for free and they might even enjoy it but there will come times when they either can’t do it any more or they just run out of money, resources and time and energy to manage things as they grow more and more popular. No one complains when things are working but everyone will scream and shout as soon as their instance fails for one reason or another. Everyone or as many people as possible should find a bit of money to support their instance or the developers. Even if everyone gave a dollar, that would add up to thousands. If we keep these instances and the people that work and maintain all this well funded then we can all be safe and secure from any corporate rot that might creep into our communities.