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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by otter@lemmy.ca to c/main@lemmy.ca

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 !buycanadian@lemmy.ca

🍁 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 🥳

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[-] otter@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Sorry to anyone that might be waiting for a reply from me on reddit or on here, I’ll be away for a few hours. You are in great hands here with the rest of the admin team and the wider community :)

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 week ago

I want to add to new users, to make sure to check Hot, Top every 6 hours, Scaled, Active, etc. if they aren't seeing interesting things. For Lemmy, Active shows up as the default and it comes across as the least active.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

And switching from Local to All lets you see the stream of posts from all the other Lemmy/Piefed/Etc. communities worldwide.

this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2026
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