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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Bonjour all.
Beinvenue!
Bonjour, et bienvenue 😊
Hi everyone!
Welcome 😊
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 😊
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!
What exactly is an ‘instance’?
So, Lemmy is software that lets you build an off-the-shelf content aggregation website, similar to how Wordpress lets you build an off-the-shelf blog. There are dozens of moderate to large websites running Lemmy, and hundreds of small or tiny ones running it.
Each one of these websites can, if the users and admins enable it, subscribe to communities hosted on other Lemmy-based websites, which lets them comment on posts in those communities, or even make their own posts to them.
Because this intercommunication allows users to treat remotely-hosted communities as if they are local to the user’s website, it’s common for people to think of the network of Lemmy-based websites as a signular entity. In this model, each of the independent websites running Lemmy gets called an “instance”.
The same terminology is used for Mastodon-based websites, and other websites that allow for similar auto-syndication of content that creates a simulacrum of a centralized content environment. So, a “Lemmy instance” is a “website running Lemmy that is participating in active content syndication”, a “Mastodon instance” is “a website running Mastodon that is participating in active content syndication”, etc. You can replace “Mastodon” or “Lemmy” with “mbin”, “Friendica”, “PieFed”, “Misskey”, “Hubzilla”, “PeerTube”, “PixelFed”, “BookWyrm”, “FunkWhale”, “nodeBB”, or any number of other website engines that are participating in this type of ecosystem.
Welcome!
I’d recommend looking through these two guides / infographics as they are a good introduction
How does Lemmy work, in detail
If you consider the network of email providers, then “gmail” could be considered one “instance” of the network. You can use it as a self-contained service, but the strength comes from being a part of the wider network.
So you can use lemmy.ca as if it was an isolated Canadian version of reddit, but the strength comes from being able to access communities from all over
I’m not new. This is my second post already.
Welcome nonetheless 😄
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.
Elbows up, hosers!
Elbows up!!!
Hello. Nice to see a Canadian alternative to reddit.
Welcome :) Let us know if you need help with anything!
Hello everyone, nice to e-meet you :D
Welcome :)
Hello! Still mostly hanging out at Reddit but I see the writing on the wall and am trying to at the very least diversify, and hopefully make a full switch soon. Very grateful that this is here - both Lemmy and this particular resource.
Welcome!
Still mostly hanging out at Reddit but I see the writing on the wall and am trying to at the very least diversify, and hopefully make a full switch soon
This is true for a lot of the new users, despite what the memes may suggest 😄
Is there a particular community on reddit that you’d like to see more of on here?
Established users, too. I’m still active on Reddit, just much less so than I used to be. And a lot of the biggest promoters of the Fediverse are still active there, doing what they can to promote Lemmy- and Mastodon-based sites.
New here, looking to move from redd it also. Got recommended lemmy by my brother this morning and I like what I see so far. Keep up the good work.
Welcome!
It’s nice to see the word of mouth working, I’ve seen a lot of mentions recently of people being recommended here by friends and family members
absolutely new to here (and to Lemmy, just learn that this exist today from… well … reddit) Glad to be here and glad to move on from there. Thanks to all the folks who host this, setting this up, and making this happen!
Welcome 😊
Definitely check out the guides above, and drop by in !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca if you have any issues!
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! 😊
