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 :)

  • Nemean_lion@lemmy.caBannedEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Reddit has become just an absolute dumpster fire lately. Anything even remotely negative and bam you’re banned. Even the gifs i could post got so limited. I’m done with it, and am joining the exodus.

  • steever@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Is there any interest in taking donations on Librapay or Open collective again?

    • Otter@lemmy.caOPMEnglish
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      2 years ago

      We haven’t revisited our donation methods yet, but we will at some point.

      If you have a moment, could you share why you’d prefer to have Librapay / Open collective over the existing options? No wrong answers, I just wanted to copy it into our notes for when we revisit all that

      • steever@lemmy.caEnglish
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        2 years ago

        I think I’d like those options for a couple of reasons. First would be recurring payments in Canadian dollars. Second would be more visibility for financial contributions, help to see you’re apart of community of donors, and lastly I think these two institutions seem aligned with the values of federation, and bottom up community driven initiatives.

  • WorkshopBubby@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Hey so as a Canadian, we are about to get attacked by our long time ally and the worlds military superpower. We are probably going to be steamrolled, and then become second class citizens in the Trump dictatorship cult. Am I allowed to say violent things about how that makes me feel? Or will I get banned, like on reddit?

    • Otter@lemmy.caOPMEnglish
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      2 years ago

      We’re pretty reasonable with moderation here. The way Lemmy works, mod actions are recorded publicly for transparency. You can access those record here, but as a warning before you open the page, “Some deleted posts may contain disturbing or adult material”: https://lemmy.ca/modlog

      So far we’ve only banned users site wide when it was a consistent problem (ex. spam bot, harassing other users). However, we do need to remove comments that are clearly against the law in Canada, else we couldn’t keep operating.

      It really comes down to what the comment is. If you look through the threads on here, a lot of people are already expressing how they feel, or what Canada’s/Canadians’ response should be. Where it might be a problem is if someone says they’re going to do something violent/illegal, or call for someone else to do it

      Hopefully that makes sense?

      • wise_pancake@lemmy.cadeleted by creatorEnglish
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        2 years ago

        “don’t get the admins subpoenaed” is probably a good rule of thumb.

        (You folks do a great job, I appreciate the community you’ve fostered and tended to here)

    • Rentlar@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 years ago

      You will be less likely to be banned. Still, be reasonable, tactful and don’t be a dick about it, even if I get that you came here to express your genuine feelings.

      “Kill [person of interest]” is off limits here and on many other servers, but there are ways you can describe how your frustration in ways that aren’t illegal or personally charged. “Fuck [person of interest]” is nearly universally allowed here. Even if not banned, the outcome of whether you are upvoted to heaven or downvoted to hell will depend on the person and the context.

    • GrizzlyBur@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Purchase a long rifle and shoot it often. I say this as a staunch pacifist. Having a weapon and using it are two different things. For a thousand reasons, if a genuine war broke out it would likely destroy America. Unfortunately, likely taking Canada with it.

      Regardless, be armed and be prepared. It is not as bleak as you may think, even in the worst case scenario. Best case scenario nothing happens and you take up hunting or target shooting as a hobby!

  • rob200@lemmy.cadeleted by creatorEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Hi thanks for welcoming. I joined this community because I was looking for a non u.s based social platform, that was like a reddit/message board, while being close to. Seems like a great social community on the Fediverse.

  • GreenCavalier@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Bonjour, fellow Canadian Lemmies! I’d deleted my Reddit, account in November, and was only lurking, so it’s nice to have a voice in the conversation once more.

  • whoisearth@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Not a new user but I’m actually finally deleting my Reddit acct. Just updating all my comments and posts now using redact. The recent news about Elon getting them to massage their content was enough. Fuck them.

    • wise_pancake@lemmy.cadeleted by creatorEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I deleted my reddit account a while ago. Sometimes I still lurk, but it hasn’t been the same lately. I was a redditor since 2010.

      Welcome to lemmy! I hope you like it here!

    • Kichae@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 year ago

      So, Lemmy is software that lets you build an off-the-shelf content aggregation website, similar to how Wordpress lets you build an off-the-shelf blog. There are dozens of moderate to large websites running Lemmy, and hundreds of small or tiny ones running it.

      Each one of these websites can, if the users and admins enable it, subscribe to communities hosted on other Lemmy-based websites, which lets them comment on posts in those communities, or even make their own posts to them.

      Because this intercommunication allows users to treat remotely-hosted communities as if they are local to the user’s website, it’s common for people to think of the network of Lemmy-based websites as a signular entity. In this model, each of the independent websites running Lemmy gets called an “instance”.

      The same terminology is used for Mastodon-based websites, and other websites that allow for similar auto-syndication of content that creates a simulacra of a centralized content environment. So, a “Lemmy instance” is a “website running Lemmy that is participating in active content syndication”, a “Mastodon instance” is “a website running Mastodon that is participating in active content syndication”, etc. You can replace “Mastodon” or “Lemmy” with “mbin”, “Friendica”, “PieFed”, “Misskey”, “Hubzilla”, “PeerTube”, “PixelFed”, “BookWyrm”, “FunkWhale”, “nodeBB”, or any number of other website engines that are participating in this type of ecosystem.

    • Otter@lemmy.caOPMEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Welcome!

      I’d recommend looking through these two guides / infographics as they are a good introduction

      What is the fediverse

      How does Lemmy work, in detail

      If you consider the network of email providers, then “gmail” could be considered one “instance” of the network. You can use it as a self-contained service, but the strength comes from being a part of the wider network.

      So you can use lemmy.ca as if it was an isolated Canadian version of reddit, but the strength comes from being able to access communities from all over

  • GlenC@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Just joined after being recommended on Reddit. The straw for me was a recent 7 day ban because I stated a historical fact on guerrilla war and America. Not sure when Americans got so delicate and all snowflake like but whatever. Glad to be here.

    • Kichae@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 year ago

      The techno-authoritarians are making their play for absolute power now. They’re going to suppress opposition in general. They spent years getting everyone to use their tools, and this is why.

  • Snowstorm@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 years ago

    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.