That would be awesome! All of this is a bit above my head, I wish I could be of more help. History/culture is my professional, not computer science. I appreciate the help and it’s really encouraging to see admins active and approachable on here.

Unless if I am severely missing something, I don’t believe there is any way for me to take any moderation actions on posts or comments through the old.lemmy.ca interface. So if I ever need to pin posts, remove posts/comments, or see reports I need to switch over to www.lemmy.ca instead. Not the end of the world, but a bit bothersome. I also cannot see the languages tagged on to posts.

Glad to see its in the pipeline at least! Fingers crossed the old interface keeps on being updated. It is honestly the only thing that has been making me use lemmy.ca. I don’t like change. The day reddit drops the old format, is the day I might finally stop using reddit altogether.

Its my weird hill I’m choosing to die on.

I agree that having the government do it would be ideal, though a government could fumble it just as bad or worse than any private company. I’ll take a flawed domestic starlink/rocket launches over none at all. Especially if the alternative means relying on America/Musk even more.

I don’t know about the toxins from launches, but I think it must be a drop in the bucket compared to air travel, cars, and dirty electricty generation. If that is what it takes to get us space infrastructure, I’d call that the cost of doing business. I also have faith that there can be reasonable way to mitigate the damage such as choice of where they are launched and further developing the technology. Much of the tech has gone largely unchanged from the moon landing era, afaik.

You are really good at taking the good and the bad, but throwing away the good so you only have the bad.

These guys have given us no reason to believe that they will be anything like Musk. There are hundreds and thousands of private companies that operate within the law and/or ethically in general. Other people have already given you many reasons why being able to do our own domestic (albeit private) rocket launches is extremely beneficial. Such as doing our own starlink instead of using Musks’.

I’m pretty anti-capitalist and a Musk-hater as they come too, but I feel you are just speaking from a place of anger, not reason. Even if it were the government doing this, space infrastructure development is just as important for Canadian citizens as more dental coverage and overhauling public transit.

“If everything goes right, his company, NordSpace, will make history by orchestrating Canada’s first commercial rocket launch.”

This is a private entity, not the government. Unless you mean you want a private company to somehow do more dental coverage and a private company to make private transit public.

You could have at least read the blurb I put in the body text of the post.

Last I heard, Mark Carney has been making moves toward weaning us off of American trade/economic co-dependency. I think zero will be impossible (and unwise, imo), but we can definitely do better.

Same as the other commenter. I did a little looksie at the wiki for the slogan, and I understand that it doesn’t mean death to the American people, but I really think that the slogan is far too easily misconstrued to imply death to Americans.

It really sounds like a call to violence, which is generally frowned upon in online communities and this one as well. I would recommend saying something else, personally.

Stuff like that makes me a little worrisome about my ambitions to one day move to Quebec/Montreal. I despise fearmongering and blind hatred, but you find that everywhere nowadays.

To quote a bit of Gandalf, I hope to be a person who gifts many small acts of kindness and love to keep the darkness at bay. Wherever I find myself. It is one of my biggest motivators to work on my French, so I can connect better with more people of Canada. The jump in pay and jobs exclusive for bilingual folks helps too though!

I’ve got mixed feelings about this. On one hand I mostly like the idea of the Quebec social contract, the whole “democracy, the French language, gender equality, and secularism” bit.

But how would this be fairly enforced? What would make a person gender equality-y enough? Or pro-democratic enough? I think the secularism is the most egregious. I’m secular myself, but I don’t think its morally right to try to take that away from other people, so long as their beliefs don’t hurt others.

It really does read as targeting a particular religous/cultural ethnic group :(

The owner of those two communities deleted his account. They passed moderation of maplemusic to me and one other person, but givergaming got deleted with their account.

I’ve created !canadiangaming@lemmy.ca to refill the void. Out of the two, a canadian gaming community was the one I was hoping to take off the most since I’m more of a gamer person than a music person. I’ve got some plans for fostering a community on there. I’ll post about it in !communitypromo once I’ve got it set up a bit nicer, it is sorta barebones at the moment.

Strange how I didn’t want to mod any communities on here but ended up moderating 3!

Yep, lemmy is mostly flying under the radar at the moment but I suspect it would be rather trivial to do the same stuff here as on reddit. The Canadian subreddits there are infamous for heavy astroturfing allegations.

Same, but to a lesser degree. I don’t ever lie about who I am, but I split it between several accounts to keep a veil of plausible deniability. And most critically, I never post photos of me or anything or anywhere people who know me could identify.

That is actually why I enjoy lemmy.ca, it is a mostly safe bet to assume most people on here, especially the Canadian communities, are actual real Canadians. But that will surely change once the community grows and more bad faith actors or general idiots come on to these discussions.

As Lemmy.ca gets bigger and bigger I think there should be serious consideration put into how to tackle these issues. I’m fine speaking with anonymous people globally, but for certain topics I’d prefer to know if the person I’m speaking to is even Canadian.

How to verify that while keeping privacy is a tough one, I don’t have an answer. IP locking would help, but it is insanely trivial to get a VPN nowadays. A good start would probably be making verification entirely voluntary, and just see how that goes. Or, just give user flairs (once they are added) to users who have a history of engaging with local Canadian communities on Lemmy. It would be a safe bet to assume they are Canadians, or at least having to put in exorbitant amounts of effort to lie.

I know google can give you temporary phone numbers that are intended to be used for work so you don’t give your private number. Could probably be used for this. Although if you ever need to recover your email using that phone number, you might be SOL.

On the other other hand, it could somewhat make sure only Canadians are using it? Assuming it accepts only Canadian phone numbers. Although I don’t think that really means anything with email accounts.

Ngl, I’d love to see online communities where you have to actually verify that you are a real Canadian citizen speaking and not an astroturfing bot or troll-baiter. It’s so annoying seeing a person online roleplaying or misleading people to believe they are a Canadian and then you check their post history and they’re blatantly not. Or the people that feel compelled to give their wildly uninformed opinions on Canadian topics. I hate to imagine how many people are smart enough to hide they’re not Canadian and influencing Canadian online forums.

I think anonymity on the internet is a double edged sword, but one side is getting a lot duller while the side that cuts us only gets sharper. Especially considering the implications of AI.

There are two communities I would really like to see some traffic driven to:

!maplemusic@lemmy.ca - Celebrating Canadian music

!givergaming@lemmy.ca - Celebrating Canadian games, gamedevs and studios

I think these would be an easy add to the Canadian Social / Culture section.