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:
- A quick overview of Lemmy
- A detailed guide on how Lemmy works
- A quick overview of ‘the Fediverse’
- Learn about the non-profit that runs this site
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 :)
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Can you please add Liberapay as a donation option? I don’t see it on your donation page.
It’s not currently there, but it’s on our list of things to look into when we revisit our donation options.
Recently another user checked in about Librepay, and I asked for more thoughts. If you have any additional points, we’d appreciate them! I’ll copy them into our notes alongside the previous comments
Accounts and anonymity?
For social media, I don’t mind using my real name and email to register as long as only my username shows on posts or image uploads.
When I upload an image, what can other users see?
I start to respond to a post or comment that I see on NEW. I finish and right before I hit post, I notice the instance/server is completely unrelated to my response and I deleted my post :) - It’s an added nuance to Lemmy that takes some getting used to.
Would you be able to share an example? (Short description or screenshot is fine)
We might be able to clarify or add it to the guides in the future
The question was “What type of stuff are you buying off Aliexpress?”
I started responding with “toys, cleaning supplies, phone cases, etc.” And then I noticed I was responding to a post on ** [email protected]**
So I felt like my response wouldn’t be as helpful or would be off-topic because I was responding on the programming.dev instance.
Right? That makes sense right? LOL
There’s actually no harm in commenting on communities from another instance!
Often there will be one large community for each topic, on some random instance, rather than individual communities on every instance. The diagrams on this doc might help to see how it works: https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/detailed-overview
It is possible that a community is intended for a certain group of people, and ideally the community name will indicate that. If not, you can open up the community and check the sidebar. For example, [email protected] is named ‘Medicine Canada’, and it is intended for Canadian medical professionals / Canadian medical news, while [email protected] is named ‘Medicine’, and it is the general community for the topic.
We didn’t have to make ‘Medicine Canada’ on lemmy.ca, and in fact, there are many non-Canadian communities on lemmy.ca. It all comes down to what the community mods want the community to be about. The instance is just where they chose to set up shop.
In your case, the sidebar at [email protected] says:
An unofficial English-speaking channel for discussing Aliexpress and Alibaba, interesting products you find, asking for product recommendations, and any scams by the sellers.
When in doubt, just check the community sidebar :)
Sub-forums here expect people from remote sites to comment on them. They’re not just for local users. Most sites aren’t going to have an Ali Express community on them for you to comment on.
Check the community’s rules before posting, in case it’s very specifically Ali Express discussion for software developers, and also so you know the nuances of that particular community, but don’t feel like you can’t engage with communities on the other side of the fence.
This whole space is best thought of “This forum I’m a member of, plus all these other things over there that I’d like to see, too!”
Thank you. I’m in, I need something that doesn’t feed me an algorithm.
Welcome :)
If anyone is curious, the post sorting calculations are also public (the code is open source). As a summary:
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/07-ranking-algo.html
- Active uses the post votes, and latest comment time (limited to two days).
- Hot uses the post votes, and the post published time.
- Scaled is similar to Hot, but gives a boost to smaller / less active communities.
No more hidden algorithms was a big one for me. I personally use ‘Scaled’, and sometimes flip to the other ones to take a peek
'morning! I’m in. Though I scrubbed my reddit content back in the ‘strike’ my eyeballs still regularly contributed to their site. I guess I’m stopping that now too. Small steps, as they say. Looking forward it.
Welcome aboard!
Welcome :)
Thanks!!
Just joined today! Deleted all my posts on Reddit (thank you Shreddit) deleted my account, and now I’m here! The US can go to hell, well, it’s half way there already. Thank you Lemmy.ca
Welcome!
Welcome :)
Hello All. I’m another new user hopping over from Reddit. Breaking the ice with this post.
*waves vigorously*
Heya, neighbour!
Welcome :)
👋
Welcome new folks!
Hi Everyone! I joined today. Have used Lemmy briefly in the past but never got into it fully.
Only question I have right now is - how does one create a Community? I’d like to start one for my small town to post news, events and open discussions for others to find and join as the server grows.
Thanks in advance!
Also, assuming this is a Canadian small town, comment in this thread and I’ll add it to the big list
Thanks Otter! It is a Canadian small town (Okotoks). I’ll try getting it set up via web this week if I have time! Appreciate the guidance.
Welcome!
If you open the website in a web browser, you should see a ‘Create Community’ button.
A more detailed step by step:
Name:ex. ‘vancouver’- it will appear in the link (c/Vancouver), and can’t be changed
Display Name:ex.VancouverorMetro Vancouveretc.- you can keep changing this, but keep it relatively short
Icon&Bannerare recommendedSidebarfor a description of the community and any rules are recommendedUnder languages, select whichever languages users should select from when posting (ex.
Undetermined,English,French)Then you can post in places like [email protected] and [email protected] so people know about the new community
Then keep posting to it till it gets rolling :)
With that said, if there’s no activity in the small community, I’d post directly in !Canada. As we grow and we get more people, I think we’ll naturally break out into the smaller geographical communities. I think this is valid even for provinces at this point.
That’s fair. It’s probably too small of a user base to warrant it’s own community today.
Can still make it but if you want people to see things related to it, dump 'em in !Canada. It’s what I do for Toronto.
Thanks for having me! I’m glad to have finally made the switch over from Reddit and other conventional platforms. I’ve always been mostly a lurker but hey, maybe this time will be different. Looking forward to the fresh start!
Welcome 😊
Hi hello. Just got my Lemmy account today. A refugee from Reddit. I had been a reddit user for over 11 years. Apparently I pissed off an admin saying something. I’m not sure exactly what because the comment was deleted and they banned me. I assume the comment was related to Canada and Trump nonsense. Whatever.
This is actually great timing because I didn’t want to use a social media company in the US given the state they are in now and the direction they’re heading.
Being a left leaning Canadian, getting banned from reddit was probably just a matter of time anyway.
Welcome friend the server is hosted in Canada!
Welcome 😊
Bonjour amigos!
I challenge every newbies to create 1-3 posts over the first 72 h here : what do you enjoy in social media usually? It doesn’t have to be perfectly new if it’s new on Lemmy: your favourite Reddit group isn’t represented here or silent for a while : show us a glimpse of what you like and see how much engagement you receive.
Well I challenge every newbie to create 72 new posts over the first 1 to 3 h here!
Hello! Coming over from Reddit and I’m new to Lemmy. So happy to easily find a Canadian Community!
Glad to have you here!
Thanks!
Welcome aboard!
Welcome 😊
Thank you! And thank you @[email protected] for the manual verification, much appreciated!
I had no idea that communities had taken off on Lemmy since 2 years ago! I didn’t even realize I still had an account on here.
Really excited to see where this goes, and to support a Canadian server. Fingers crossed that this gains more traction in Canada and can act as strong shield against misinformation and bad faith actors.
I’ll be certain to spread the word about this community more to fellow Canadians. I think with current events this could be the lightning in the bottle to see more usage here.
Any communities worth looking at?
Welcome back 😊
Any communities worth looking at?
If you’re looking for communities related to those recent events, then [email protected] and [email protected] come to mind as being relevant.
Otherwise a lot of new communities have emerged (or migrated) from 2 years ago. We have this guide now on finding communities, you could try the lemmyverse suggestion with topics you’re looking into
https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/how-to-find-communities
