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Welcome new users to piefed.ca and lemmy.ca! (thelemmy.club)

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

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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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[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

To all new fellow canucks:

Switch your feed to All
- All shows posts from the worldwide Lemmy/Piefed network. This is equivalent to Reddit
- Local shows posts only from lemmy.ca or piefed.ca, whichever you're logged into
- Subscribed shows posts from communities (subreddits) you've subscribed to, from local and the worldwide network
Switch your sorting to one of Hot/Active/Scaled
- Hot is similar to Reddit's
- Active is also similar in surfacing actively discussed posts
- Scaled is like Hot but it also surfaces more posts from smaller communities
To curate your feed, subscribe to communities (equiv of subreddit) and switch your feed to Subscribed with Scaled sorting

A curated list of Canadian communities (subreddits): https://lemmy.ca/post/2890824

this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2026

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