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Welcome to the lemmy.ca/c/main community!

All new users on lemmy.ca are automatically subscribed to this community, so this is the place to read announcements, make suggestions, and chat about the goings-on of lemmy.ca.

For support requests specific to lemmy.ca, you can use [email protected].

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Welcome New Users! (lemmy.ca)

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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 :)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 56 minutes ago (1 children)

Hi hello. Just got my Lemmy account today. A refugee from Reddit. I had been a reddit user for over 11 years. Apparently I pissed off an admin saying something. I'm not sure exactly what because the comment was deleted and they banned me. I assume the comment was related to Canada and Trump nonsense. Whatever.

This is actually great timing because I didn't want to use a social media company in the US given the state they are in now and the direction they're heading.

Being a left leaning Canadian, getting banned from reddit was probably just a matter of time anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 minutes ago

Welcome 😊

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Bonjour amigos!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Accounts and anonymity?

For social media, I don't mind using my real name and email to register as long as only my username shows on posts or image uploads.

When I upload an image, what can other users see?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Hello! Coming over from Reddit and I'm new to Lemmy. So happy to easily find a Canadian Community!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Welcome aboard!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Glad to have you here!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Welcome 😊

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Thank you! And thank you @[email protected] for the manual verification, much appreciated!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I had no idea that communities had taken off on Lemmy since 2 years ago! I didn't even realize I still had an account on here.

Really excited to see where this goes, and to support a Canadian server. Fingers crossed that this gains more traction in Canada and can act as strong shield against misinformation and bad faith actors.

I'll be certain to spread the word about this community more to fellow Canadians. I think with current events this could be the lightning in the bottle to see more usage here.

Any communities worth looking at?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Welcome back 😊

Any communities worth looking at?

If you're looking for communities related to those recent events, then [email protected] and [email protected] come to mind as being relevant.

Otherwise a lot of new communities have emerged (or migrated) from 2 years ago. We have this guide now on finding communities, you could try the lemmyverse suggestion with topics you're looking into

https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/how-to-find-communities

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Hi, I'm new to Lemmy Greetings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱🇨🇦🇪🇺

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Welcome! Hope you like it here.

FYI, feddit.nl exists too. You could create an alt account on that site if you ever find the ping times to Canada too slow for your liking :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Welcome!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

@[email protected], do you know what the catalyst was for the recent influx? It’s great news!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days 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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Learned about Lemmy recently and I immediately wanted to join so I can get out of Reddit

Good to be here.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

Welcome! Glad to have you here

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Welcome :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Thanks :)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

Welcome new folks!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I challenge every newbies to create 1-3 posts over the first 72 h here : what do you enjoy in social media usually? It doesn’t have to be perfectly new if it’s new on Lemmy: your favourite Reddit group isn’t represented here or silent for a while : show us a glimpse of what you like and see how much engagement you receive.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

Well I challenge every newbie to create 72 new posts over the first 1 to 3 h here!

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