See crosspost(s) for more discussion:
This is the first big step in the process to develop comprehensive guidelines for the Fedecan non-profit and the various platforms.
While this will mostly involve converting tacit knowledge and experience into an explicit written form, we expect that this process will inevitably bring up some points of disagreement on the best way to deal with different issues. We ask everyone participating in these discussions to please contribute constructively and in good faith. We encourage you to bring up any concerns or issues you have with the proposed structure and drafted guidelines, so that we can work together to fix them early on. However, in order to keep a productive environment for those discussions, we will be pruning any comment chains that devolve into personal attacks, slap fights, etc.
To help ground your feedback, consider these thought experiments when evaluating a potential guideline:
- Veil of ignorance: Would it still feel fair to you if you switched places with someone else on the platform (ex. a new user, a moderator, an admin, a member of a vulnerable group, etc.)?
- Equal Applicability: These rules will be enforced uniformly on everyone. A poorly written rule that helps "your side" today, can easily harm "your side" in the future as circumstances change.
The full guidelines, including governance details like the annual review cycle, can be found on the website: https://fedecan.ca/en/guidelines/
We plan to structure the guidelines as follows:
Tier 1: Fedecan Rules
Internal Conduct
These rules apply to Fedecan team members (directors, officers, admins, and anyone with elevated access). They set expectations for how team members should act.
Universal Rules
These are the baseline rules that apply to every user on every Fedecan platform. They cover the things that are prohibited by Canadian law (threats, hate speech, CSAM, non-consensual intimate imagery) as well as universal policy rules (privacy/doxxing, harassment, fraud, content that could cause harm, labelling of sensitive content, etc.).
Tier 2: Platform-Specific
Each platform has different functionality and norms, so this is where we can be more specific with the rules. The threadiverse platforms (lemmy.ca, piefed.ca, sh.itjust.works) share similar rules around community creation, moderation, vote manipulation, and content labelling. Pixelfed has its own rules tailored to its platform.
Tier 3: Community-Level Rule Templates
These are optional templates that communities can link to, or use as a starting point for their own rules. The idea is that moderators can point users to a clearly written explanation of why a rule exists, and any relevant exceptions, rather than trying to fit everything into the sidebar. Additionally, if many communities are enforcing a particular rule in the same way, then users will have an easier time understanding and following them.
The post title standards template has been drafted, and we plan to add more as the need arises. I have a few others that are in the works, but they have some overlap with the other sections, so I thought that it would be better to let people discuss first.
After taking a lot longer than I was expecting to, I'm pleased to announce the results of the census we ran earlier this year!
This year, the results are on our website instead of being copied into a post here. I'm hoping that this is better since the website charts are interactive, with additional details if you click/tap on something. They also support dark and light mode. The full results contain discussion on how we processed the results, any assumptions we made, and all of our recommendations for how to improve this process for next time.
fedecan.ca/en/announcements/2026-04-03_censusResults
If you have any issues with the site, let us know and we will take a look.
I can also add screenshots in the comments so that people reading the comments don't have to search through the article for context.
A few sample charts
Section 1.5: Internet Speed
Section 1.8: Most common pets
Yes, the 200 cherry shrimp were all from one response.
Section 2.01: Age Distribution
Section 2.08: Education
Section 2.10: Desktop Operating System
The question on specific distro / version had a pretty low sample size, but you can find that too on the article.
Section 3.1.08: Most popular desktop UIs
Section 3.1.10: Most Popular Mobile Apps
Section 3.1.13: How often people use centralized forums/threaded platforms
Section 3.2.05: What people post on Pixelfed
Section 3.2.06: What people follow on Pixelfed
Section 3.3.04: Donations (of time or money)
Section 4.4: Favourite genre of music
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 🥳
cross-posted from: https://toast.ooo/post/14579547
https://canvas.fediverse.events/
July 18th (4am UTC) to July 20th (also 4am UTC)
Canvas 2026 is in roughly 30 days!
Canvas is an annual event hosted for the Fediverse, allowing everyone to contribute to a pixel canvas, one pixel at a time
Check out the website for a live countdown, login testing, chat room (matrix/discord), and what last year's Canvas was!
If you are a developer, check out the source, and if you're a Fediverse app dev check the docs to add Canvas functionality to your app 👀
Mlem is adding support for Fediverse Events within their app ✨
Thanks to a particularly annoying botnet, everyone's favorite anime cat girl firewall is now helping protect piefed.ca & lemmy.ca from bots and scrapers.
This is requests per second and these are all thousands of scrapers on residential IPs hammering us:
They'd increase their usage until the site started struggling, then move on. I banned their user agents, but have no interest in a cat & mouse game. Anubis should hopefully keep things running much smoother for everyone.
Let me know if you have any trouble!
Hi Lemmy!
I spent a long time making these botanical micro-art trading cards for myself. They are for each province and territory of Canada. Kind of a hobby. I did everything by hand, locally and offline, so every individual card has some variations to them.
I'm really curious if others would ever want something like this as Canadian made micro-art collectables, happy to figure out if it's just me who likes them or?
Thanks
We will be closing the census this week, on January 15th, 2026.
Link: https://survey.fedecan.ca//s/cmjcnqzgd0002th01dh6naqm6
A lot has changed since our last census in 2023! We would like to take another opportunity to learn about our growing community.
Everyone is welcome to fill out this survey! While this census is being run by the admins of lemmy.ca, sh.itjust.works, piefed.ca, and pixelfed.ca, you do not need to have an account on these instances, and you do not need to be located in Canada. If you do have an account on one of our instances, you can indicate that on the census to be included in those separate graphs/visualizations.
No question is mandatory. You may skip any question by either selecting “no answer (skip this question)”, or by leaving the question blank.
Some questions will be hidden depending on your selections. For example, the Pixelfed specific questions will be hidden if you don't select that as one of the platforms you use.
Sections:
- Section 1: Location
- Section 2: Demographics
- Section 3a: Instance Usage (Forum/Threadiverse)
- Section 3b: Instance Usage (Pixelfed)
- Section 4: Feedback / Closing questions
When results are ready, we will share them on our website and with posts on the main/meta communities in our instances.
The questions were created with help from @Dave@lemmy.nz, based on the questions from their census this year. The banner image was made with icons from flaticon.com.
Due to some issues with the survey platform, you won't be able to click on external URLs while completing the census. You can access those links here:
Lemmy.ca's Main Community
Welcome to the lemmy.ca/c/main community!
All new users on lemmy.ca are automatically subscribed to this community, so this is the place to read announcements, make suggestions, and chat about the goings-on of lemmy.ca.
For support requests specific to lemmy.ca, you can use !lemmy_ca_support@lemmy.ca.