Hey.Café - A Canadian Social Network
@hey.cafe
We are a social network, all about communities, ad free and supported by our users. Hello from 🇨🇦! We are a safe space to connect and share. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Give us a try: https://hey.cafe
Give us a try: https://hey.cafe
We have made the decision due to the new Australia law amendment for social media that now goes into effect to block access to Australia. We do not collect user data and due to this we have no way to do age verification.
December 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
We have made the decision due to the new Australia law amendment for social media that now goes into effect to block access to Australia. We do not collect user data and due to this we have no way to do age verification.
So exciting to see @hytale.bsky.social is back! We have added a community for it, so we have a place to talk about the game. The Hytale team also also have a discord you can find on the Hytale website.
hey.cafe/!hytale
hey.cafe/!hytale
Hytale (!hytale) / Hey.Café
Set out on an adventure built for both creation and play. Hytale blends the freedom of a sandbox with the momentum of an RPG: explore a procedurally generated world full of dungeons, secrets, and a va...
hey.cafe
November 18, 2025 at 7:35 AM
So exciting to see @hytale.bsky.social is back! We have added a community for it, so we have a place to talk about the game. The Hytale team also also have a discord you can find on the Hytale website.
hey.cafe/!hytale
hey.cafe/!hytale
Hope everyone is having a great Halloween evening!
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November 1, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Hope everyone is having a great Halloween evening!
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Should we post daily tips?
October 28, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Should we post daily tips?
Hum, guess it's a good thing we don't use American services anymore... It keeps us online.
October 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Hum, guess it's a good thing we don't use American services anymore... It keeps us online.
We just wanted to let everyone know that we just updated our Appropriate Use Policy & Community Guidelines with the help and feedback of the community.
https://hey.cafe/help/article/y7ejainr9ooj5gv
https://hey.cafe/help/article/y7ejainr9ooj5gv
Appropriate Use Policy (Rules) / Hey.Café
The rules on Hey.Café are really simple. This is a clean, safe space where abuse or threats of any kind will not be allowed. On top of the rules listed every café can have their own set of rules they can enforce, but our global rules supersede all others.
hey.cafe
October 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
We just wanted to let everyone know that we just updated our Appropriate Use Policy & Community Guidelines with the help and feedback of the community.
https://hey.cafe/help/article/y7ejainr9ooj5gv
https://hey.cafe/help/article/y7ejainr9ooj5gv
We will be updating our content rules here in the next day or so with the private messaged suggestions and let you all know when it's live. We want to make a few quick improvements to the documentation pages first.
October 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
We will be updating our content rules here in the next day or so with the private messaged suggestions and let you all know when it's live. We want to make a few quick improvements to the documentation pages first.
Did you know we have public stats and our API is open also?
https://admin.hey.cafe/stats
https://endpoint.hey.cafe
https://admin.hey.cafe/stats
https://endpoint.hey.cafe
Hey.Café Stats / Hey.Café Admin
The admin and staff area for Hey.Café built on the Hey.Café API.
admin.hey.cafe
October 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Did you know we have public stats and our API is open also?
https://admin.hey.cafe/stats
https://endpoint.hey.cafe
https://admin.hey.cafe/stats
https://endpoint.hey.cafe
We have a discord server, feel free to join. https://discord.gg/HPNWmDDtvV
Join the Hey.Café Open Mic Nights Discord Server!
Check out the Hey.Café Open Mic Nights community on Discord - hang out with 21 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.
discord.gg
October 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
We have a discord server, feel free to join. https://discord.gg/HPNWmDDtvV
Feedback wanted! Take a look at the upcoming "Appropriate Use Policy & Community Guidelines" and give us your feedback!
https://hey.cafe/conversation/6j9c2cgiid8rceh/we-have-been-working-on-a-new-appropriate-use-policy-community
https://hey.cafe/conversation/6j9c2cgiid8rceh/we-have-been-working-on-a-new-appropriate-use-policy-community
Hey.Café - A Canadian Social Network: We have been working on a new "** Appropriate Use Policy & Community Guidelines **" and this is our first draft of the new version. You can click the preview below to view it in full and give us feedback and any modifications you think we may need to make to keep this a safe network. / Hey.Café
We have been working on a new "** Appropriate Use Policy & Community Guidelines **" and this is our first draft of the new version. You can click the preview below to view it in full and give us feedback and any modifications you think we may need to make to keep this a safe network.
hey.cafe
October 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Feedback wanted! Take a look at the upcoming "Appropriate Use Policy & Community Guidelines" and give us your feedback!
https://hey.cafe/conversation/6j9c2cgiid8rceh/we-have-been-working-on-a-new-appropriate-use-policy-community
https://hey.cafe/conversation/6j9c2cgiid8rceh/we-have-been-working-on-a-new-appropriate-use-policy-community
We are working on new community guidelines and we want your feedback on our updated version before release. All feedback welcome!
https://hey.cafe/conversation/6j9c2cgiid8rceh/we-have-been-working-on-a-new-appropriate-use-policy-community
https://hey.cafe/conversation/6j9c2cgiid8rceh/we-have-been-working-on-a-new-appropriate-use-policy-community
Hey.Café - A Canadian Social Network: We have been working on a new "** Appropriate Use Policy & Community Guidelines **" and this is our first draft of the new version. You can click the preview below to view it in full and give us feedback and any modifications you think we may need to make to keep this a safe network. / Hey.Café
We have been working on a new "** Appropriate Use Policy & Community Guidelines **" and this is our first draft of the new version. You can click the preview below to view it in full and give us feedback and any modifications you think we may need to make to keep this a safe network.
hey.cafe
October 7, 2025 at 2:48 AM
We are working on new community guidelines and we want your feedback on our updated version before release. All feedback welcome!
https://hey.cafe/conversation/6j9c2cgiid8rceh/we-have-been-working-on-a-new-appropriate-use-policy-community
https://hey.cafe/conversation/6j9c2cgiid8rceh/we-have-been-working-on-a-new-appropriate-use-policy-community
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If youre looking for other friendly, smaller options that have a cool forum like vibe, the folks at @hey.cafe are wonderful and theyre one of my top 3 social media sites! They have lots of tech, art, and minecraft conversations if those fit your fancy!
October 7, 2025 at 12:43 AM
If youre looking for other friendly, smaller options that have a cool forum like vibe, the folks at @hey.cafe are wonderful and theyre one of my top 3 social media sites! They have lots of tech, art, and minecraft conversations if those fit your fancy!
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I'll second this. I tried roughly a dozen social networks when I left Twitter, and @hey.cafe is the only one that didn't just feel like a clone of something else.
If youre looking for other friendly, smaller options that have a cool forum like vibe, the folks at @hey.cafe are wonderful and theyre one of my top 3 social media sites! They have lots of tech, art, and minecraft conversations if those fit your fancy!
October 7, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I'll second this. I tried roughly a dozen social networks when I left Twitter, and @hey.cafe is the only one that didn't just feel like a clone of something else.
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100% agreed!
October 7, 2025 at 1:11 AM
100% agreed!
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So Jay has been fucking it up and we don’t want to. We want to at hey.cafe take the feedback to rewrite and update our policies! We were in the process of the rewrite now and will share a doc soon to look for feedback!
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Anthony Lee: I wish to make Hey.Café the safest online space for many people in many different ways, while not unknowingly harming people and communities that are not about sharing hateful content. / ...
I wish to make Hey.Café the safest online space for many people in many different ways, while not unknowingly harming people and communities that are not about sharing hateful content.
hey.cafe
October 3, 2025 at 3:59 PM
So Jay has been fucking it up and we don’t want to. We want to at hey.cafe take the feedback to rewrite and update our policies! We were in the process of the rewrite now and will share a doc soon to look for feedback!
hey.cafe/conversation...
hey.cafe/conversation...
hey.cafe/conversation...
hey.cafe/conversation...
This day honours the children who never returned home and the Survivors of residential schools, along with their families and communities.
https://hey.cafe/conversation/kl52s1v354qumka/september-30th-is-national-day-for-truth-and-reconciliation-this-day
https://hey.cafe/conversation/kl52s1v354qumka/september-30th-is-national-day-for-truth-and-reconciliation-this-day
Hey.Café - A Canadian Social Network: September 30th is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. This day honours the children who never returned home and the Survivors of residential schools, along with their families and communities. Public commemoration of the tragic and painful history of residential schools and their ongoing impacts is essential to the reconciliation process. / Hey.Café
September 30th is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. This day honours the children who never returned home and the Survivors of residential schools, along with their families and communities. Public commemoration of the tragic and painful history of residential schools and their ongoing impacts is essential to the reconciliation process.
hey.cafe
September 30, 2025 at 8:55 PM
This day honours the children who never returned home and the Survivors of residential schools, along with their families and communities.
https://hey.cafe/conversation/kl52s1v354qumka/september-30th-is-national-day-for-truth-and-reconciliation-this-day
https://hey.cafe/conversation/kl52s1v354qumka/september-30th-is-national-day-for-truth-and-reconciliation-this-day
Done everything is moved over and we are back online on a faster database server!
September 2, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Done everything is moved over and we are back online on a faster database server!
Doing the export and import to the new server now.
September 2, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Doing the export and import to the new server now.
We are ready for the migration tonight for the new database server. We have done testing and have it all ready to go. https://hey.cafe/conversation/938wtngmn8dsvx1/
Anthony Lee: Alright so we have it figured out, we are doing a full migration to a new server instead of trying to scale. / Hey.Café
Alright so we have it figured out, we are doing a full migration to a new server instead of trying to scale.
hey.cafe
September 1, 2025 at 9:58 PM
We are ready for the migration tonight for the new database server. We have done testing and have it all ready to go. https://hey.cafe/conversation/938wtngmn8dsvx1/
Server scale failed, we will be looking at doing this another weekend.
September 1, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Server scale failed, we will be looking at doing this another weekend.
Going to attempt some maintenance, our database will be shutting down for a few hours.
September 1, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Going to attempt some maintenance, our database will be shutting down for a few hours.
Upgrade delayed until tonight due to a slow disk clone, we will do the scale later this evening as it looks like it may take a long time to complete.
August 31, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Upgrade delayed until tonight due to a slow disk clone, we will do the scale later this evening as it looks like it may take a long time to complete.
Upgrade still has not started yet, still waiting on a disk snapshot to complete.
August 31, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Upgrade still has not started yet, still waiting on a disk snapshot to complete.
Going to do a server scale up in 10 minutes to improve performance on our database. May last up to a hour, this is the first time trying to run a scale change and swap to different type of hardware with our provider.
August 31, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Going to do a server scale up in 10 minutes to improve performance on our database. May last up to a hour, this is the first time trying to run a scale change and swap to different type of hardware with our provider.