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The Lemmy community of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada!

To contact the mods, we recommend sending a modmail on Reddit until there is an equivalent feature on Lemmy. If you want, you can also message @Otter on Lemmy.



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Summarized Guidelines:

  1. Be polite: Treat each other with respect. No slurs (ex. racial, gender, homophobic, mental health, etc.)

  2. Engage in good faith: If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything.

  3. Use Megathreads: If your question can go in a megathread or stickied post, you must post it there.

  4. Keep content relevant: Posts must be related to UBC or its community. All memes must be OC and/or explicitly related to UBC.

  5. Follow community rules: This includes illegal activities, linking to unauthorized copyrighted materials, doxxing, and violations of UBC academic conduct policy (read more).

  6. Advertisements: UBC affiliated non-profit organizations may advertise within reasonable limits. Everyone else must contact us before posting. No private advertisement of any sale or purchase. (read more).

  7. Surveys: Surveys should be posted only if they are related to UBC or are of unique interest to the UBC community. Only some survey types are allowed (read more).

  8. No discussion of foreign politics unless it has clear and direct implications for the UBC community (read more).

  9. Lost & Found Posts are only allowed for some items (read more). Found posts SHOULD NOT include images or descriptors (color, location) of the item. Pictures with personal information are also prohibited.

In addition, we strongly frown upon reposts and LQ posts, and such posts may be removed.

If you see a post or comment which is not in accordance with these guidelines please use the report feature and DO NOT ENGAGE with it.


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If anyone's interested, I've created a [email protected].

Someday, we may have one-sided meme wars!

edit: I just read the sidebar note about contacting the mod team first about advertising. Apologies! Please remove this post with my enthusiastic blessing if you think that this isn't sufficiently relevant to the UBC community.

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Title. With the ubc subreddit opening back up again it'll probably be much harder to enough of a network effect going unless we have some coordination with the reddit mods.

Personally I'm trying to transition away from user-hostile software and minimize my exposure to proprietary software in general. The reddit API changes didn't affect me personally but I don't want to support the company by continuing to use it. How about you guys?

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What's everyone's favourite study spot on campus? I'll start with the Asian Library: it's so peaceful and quiet and I swear nobody knows that it exists. Plus, you get to walk around in the garden.

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Course registration is definitely on everybody's minds right now. Feel free to discuss any insights you have or questions that you need answers to.

Here's a list of fun electives/GPA booster that served me well:

  • PSYC 350A - Human sexuality
  • COMM 412 - Negotiation
  • COMM 312 - Business ethics leadership
  • PHIL 333 - Biomedical ethics
  • PHIL 331 - Business ethics
  • PHIL 250 - Minds and Machines
  • CNPS 363 - Career Counselling
  • FNH 355 - International Nutrition
  • EOSC 478 - Intro to Fisheries Science
  • FMST 210 - Family Context of Human Development
  • COHR 486D - Negotiation for Leaders
  • SPPH 381A - Public Health Ethics
  • SPPH 302 - Health Infomatics
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Wondering how people got started in research, specifically in CS/ECE?

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If you found this post, you're an eager beaver since we haven't set things up yet. Please bear with us as we work on setting up this community. We may change things rapidly as we learn more. We're all new to Lemmy / the fediverse just like you :)

If you have any feedback or thoughts on setting up the community, please let us know in this thread.

How do I make an account?

If you have already made an account on a different Lemmy instance/website, you can use that same account. Just copy "[email protected]" into the search bar on your Lemmy instance. You may need to wait a few minutes if you're the first one to look for it from that instance.

If this is your first time, you can make an account by clicking the sign-up button above. You may need to wait for your account to be approved by the admins of lemmy.ca.

Plan for the future of this community

As of now, there is no formal plan for this community. However, you're welcome to discuss what you want to see moving forwards :)

I'm bored, what else can I do?

  • Make some memes
  • Complain about Reddit / about UBC
  • Link some resources or other cool things you've found recently

To come:

  • Guide on Lemmy / Fediverse
  • Plan for the future of this community
  • Updated resources (off site from Reddit)