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 :)

  • GreenCavalier@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 days 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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    3 days 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.caEnglish
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      21 hours 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!

    • Otter@lemmy.caOPMEnglish
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      3 days 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

    • Kichae@lemmy.caEnglish
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      3 days 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.

  • GlenC@lemmy.caEnglish
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    4 days 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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      3 days 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.

  • Ferdzy@lemmy.caEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Hello! Still mostly hanging out at Reddit but I see the writing on the wall and am trying to at the very least diversify, and hopefully make a full switch soon. Very grateful that this is here - both Lemmy and this particular resource.

    • Otter@lemmy.caOPMEnglish
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      6 days ago

      Welcome!

      Still mostly hanging out at Reddit but I see the writing on the wall and am trying to at the very least diversify, and hopefully make a full switch soon

      This is true for a lot of the new users, despite what the memes may suggest 😄

      Is there a particular community on reddit that you’d like to see more of on here?

      • Kichae@lemmy.caEnglish
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        4 days ago

        Established users, too. I’m still active on Reddit, just much less so than I used to be. And a lot of the biggest promoters of the Fediverse are still active there, doing what they can to promote Lemmy- and Mastodon-based sites.

  • wreckus@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 month ago

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

    Good to be here.