It seems that a lot of new people have learned about these platforms from a popular post on Reddit. We currently see 78 notifications (and counting) and a pile of applications on piefed.ca too many registration applications for me to keep this up to date.

I am pinning this thread on both platforms for new users to pop in to and ask questions. Please give them a warm welcome!

Please let us know how we can help! For example, here are some tips on finding communities: https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/how-to-find-communities The guide says Lemmy, but the steps are the same on Piefed

Since a lot of people arrived here from r/BuyCanadian, maybe you will be interested in [email protected]

🍁 Finding Canadian Communities on Piefed

  • Open a topic from this list: https://piefed.ca/topics
  • Browse that entire topic, or subscribe to individual communities from the sidebar

edit: 392 new users on the first day and hundreds more since then, all from one post 🥳

    • Otter@lemmy.caOPMEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Downvotes should be enabled, what are you seeing on your client?

        • m-p{3}@lemmy.caMEnglish
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          7 months ago

          Downvote being enabled is an instance setting, not a per-user configuration

          it is currently enabled on lemmy.ca, where this community [email protected] resides

          and also enabled on piefed.ca, where your account resides

          Just to confirm, I don’t see any flags on your account that would restrict downvotes

        • Otter@lemmy.caOPMEnglish
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          7 months ago

          Another thing you can try is force refreshing the page. On a lot of browsers, you can do that by hitting the refresh button while holding down the shift key

                • [email protected]@piefed.caEnglish
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                  6 months ago

                  Interesting, I’m going to try and ban + unban your account in case that helps. You’ve likely already tried this but is the problem limited to a particular user/post/community or does it happen everywhere. Can you try downvoting this comment?

                  I’ll also tag a Piefed maintainer in this thread to see if there is something else we should be looking in to.