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 🥳

  • Otter@lemmy.caOPMEnglish
    1·
    5 days ago

    Welcome!

    What’s the best way to contact moderators of a community (I almost said sub).

    Right now the best way would be to message one of the moderators. You can see a list of moderators in the sidebar. If it looks like none of the moderators are active (ex. no recent activity in the past few weeks or months), you would be better off reaching out to the admins.

    What community are you looking to contact the mods of? Maybe I can help

    Also, can someone explain all the different instances of Lemmy?

    Lemmy is a part of a decentralized network, similar to email. With email, you can make an account with one provider (ex. gmail.com) and then email someone on another provider (ex. yahoo mail).

    In this case, you made an account on the lemmy.ca instance. You can create posts, upvote/downvote, comment etc, as if everyone was on one website. You can’t use your username and password to log in on another instance, and that’s important because your login details are only given to the one organization you trusted enough to make an account with.

    I would recommend looking at these two pages from our guides. They have diagrams and infographics, and we’ve heard feedback that they are helpful :)

    I’m on Lemmy.ca but with a few clicks on something I ended up on Lemmyworld and didn’t have an account. help?

    I suspect you clicked on a link to another instance. When people comment a link, some apps can recognize that it’s a link to a Lemmy post and redirect you to the correct page on lemmy.ca, but others (ex. using the website in a browser) might not. It’s one of those things that isn’t handled that well right now, and is being worked on.

    For example, the following links both go to this current post that we are currently commenting on. You and I would use the lemmy.ca version, while people with accounts on lemmy.world would use the other one: