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 !Canada@lemmy.ca. You can also ask about communities in places like !CommunityPromo@lemmy.ca.
We also encourage you to check out !NewToLemmy@lemmy.ca, so that others can help you / learn from your questions.
Welcome to Lemmy :)
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Hello, this place is kinda old school interwebs, I like it
Welcome!
We also have a few custom front ends, one of which is https://old.lemmy.ca/
Since it’s developed by a third party, it’s likely not as stable as the main interface, but it’s fun to look at 😄
New user question; why is it that I cannot upvote? am I missing something? I tap the arrow and get ‘invalid_bot_action’ I can assure you I am a real human - I can pass most captchas 😆
You are currently labeled as a bot. You can change that in your account settings, there should be a checkbox “Bot account”, uncheck it :)
Dang that was quick! Thank you! I am definitely not a bot, I enjoy human things like walking bipedally on my 2 legs and breathing oxygen rich air with my very human lungs!
That’s what a bot would say. A human would complain about their microplastics-filled brain. 😂
That was very fast, thank you for responding so quickly 😄
Hello. I don’t usually make personal posts but I am glad this site exists. I left reddit after 5 years. It was on reddit that I was pointed here. The Fediverse sounds like a beneficial collective and I am excited to see it grow.
Usually I just post stupid puns (which are very clever in my head) and topical quips which offer nothing (but are very genius in my head). I hope to have fun, get informed, and learn something from the pack along the way. Goodbye.
Thank you for posting!
Hello Lemmy.ca,
Super new here, but super happy to find this exists. I hope it grows and keeps gaining in popularity despite the clunky nature which I think is inherent to the Fediverse (am I saying that right?).
My story is probably like a lot of people here. Reddit was my only actual social media account. Never did the Twitter/Facebook/Instagram, whatever else. Reddit was how I got my news and I was fine with that.
But back in January when this whole Tariff thing was first winding up, I decided to go hard and start my American boycott. I cancelled Netflix and Disney+ (I haven’t missed them for one second, which makes me wonder why I was paying for them anyway), I cancelled my Xbox Gamepass. I was already boycotting all things Amazon and Wal-mart. You get the idea. Reddit though, it didn’t feel like a betrayal - r/onguardforthee was my Canadian politics news source of choice and I wasn’t giving them any money.
But it occurs to me, when engagement numbers is how these guys convince investors to prop them up with no sustainable business model - I sort of was doing some damage. So, I set off looking for an alternative and here I am.
We have so little power to influence things these days it can feel pointless to make changes. Changes to our social media site of choice. Changes to our buying habits. How much does it really add up? But my father taught me, and I bet yours did too, you don’t do the right thing because it guarantees the right outcome. You do it so you can look in the mirror at the end of the day. Thanks for helping me look in the mirror.
It made me happy to read that, thank you for writing it. Especially this part:
But my father taught me, and I bet yours did too, you don’t do the right thing because it guarantees the right outcome. You do it so you can look in the mirror at the end of the day. Thanks for helping me look in the mirror.
Welcome to lemmy.ca, please let us know if there’s anything we can help with 😊
Welcome! I think you’ll find that the clunkiness dissolves into the background pretty quickly. Peoples’ biggest stumbling block after signup is often that you can find communities with the same name on different websites, and that kind of offends some folks’ sensibilities. Coming from OGFT, though, I think you can already appreciate that Reddit had multiple communities fighting over names anyway.
The admins here have been absolute power houses, so I know they’ll be only too quick to provide any help that you need, or answer questions about the site or nuances about the underlying tech. And some of us regulars have been around here for a few years now, and even predate the site, thanks to the way federated services can communicate across site types (I started on Mastodon, for instance, and have been kicking the tires on nodeBB).
It’s a fun little experiment in internet anarchism.
Good on you. Most OGFT canucks fit right in here. 🍁
Bonjour, fellow Canadian Lemmies! I’d deleted my Reddit account in November, and was only lurking, so it’s nice to have a voice in the conversation once more.
Welcome 😊
Elbows up!!!
Not a new user but I’m actually finally deleting my Reddit acct. Just updating all my comments and posts now using redact. The recent news about Elon getting them to massage their content was enough. Fuck them.
edit - 15 years of comments takes a fucking long time to update humourously I’ve been banned from multiple communities because of using redact.dev
I deleted my reddit account a while ago. Sometimes I still lurk, but it hasn’t been the same lately. I was a redditor since 2010.
Welcome to lemmy! I hope you like it here!
Well, now I must give it a try!
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 😊
I’m not new. This is my second post already.
Welcome nonetheless 😄
A quick hello from a new community member. Thank you to the folks who set this up, and to participants in this community generally. You give me hope.
Welcome, glad to have you here! 😊
Elbows up, hosers!
Hello. Nice to see a Canadian alternative to reddit.
Welcome :) Let us know if you need help with anything!
Bonjour all.
Beinvenue!
Bonjour, et bienvenue 😊
Hi thanks for welcoming. I joined this community because I was looking for a non u.s based social platform, that was like a reddit/message board, while being close to. Seems like a great social community on the Fediverse.
Happy to have you here 😊
Glad to have you. Enjoy your time here!
Just joined after being recommended on Reddit. The straw for me was a recent 7 day ban because I stated a historical fact on guerrilla war and America. Not sure when Americans got so delicate and all snowflake like but whatever. Glad to be here.
The techno-authoritarians are making their play for absolute power now. They’re going to suppress opposition in general. They spent years getting everyone to use their tools, and this is why.
