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:

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 :)

  • remotelove@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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?

  • GrizzlyBur@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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?

  • Dappie@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Hi, I’m new to Lemmy Greetings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱🇨🇦🇪🇺

    • Otter@lemmy.caOPMEnglish
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      2 months ago

      We ban spammers and remove all their content fairly quickly once we get a report, sometimes within minutes if we’re online at the time. Could you report the post/message so we can deal with it?

      For what it’s worth, once in a while I’ll search the spam URLs and the same junk is posted across Reddit and other sites. Worse, some of those posts have been up for months

    • Otter@lemmy.caOPMEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I’m not sure if there was a particularly viral post (aside from a few mentions of r/BuyCanadian), but I know we’ve also been mentioned in comment sections all over. Copying from another comment:

      Going off of what people have mentioned in the registration applications, it is a combination of

      • wanting to support Canadian, and avoiding American tech companies (due to tariffs and other concerns)
      • concerns with how big tech has changed for the worse these past few months
      • Reddit’s recent actions, such as banning (and then reversing) a bunch of communities and the recent paywall announcement
      • learning about it for the first time and being excited about the concept

      The first point is why lemmy.ca has seen more relative growth this week than the others, but a lot of fediverse instances have seen growth recently

  • wreckus@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Learned about Lemmy recently and I immediately wanted to join so I can get out of Reddit

    Good to be here.

  • WorkshopBubby@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Hey so as a Canadian, we are about to get attacked by our long time ally and the worlds military superpower. We are probably going to be steamrolled, and then become second class citizens in the Trump dictatorship cult. Am I allowed to say violent things about how that makes me feel? Or will I get banned, like on reddit?

    • Otter@lemmy.caOPMEnglish
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      2 months ago

      We’re pretty reasonable with moderation here. The way Lemmy works, mod actions are recorded publicly for transparency. You can access those record here, but as a warning before you open the page, “Some deleted posts may contain disturbing or adult material”: https://lemmy.ca/modlog

      So far we’ve only banned users site wide when it was a consistent problem (ex. spam bot, harassing other users). However, we do need to remove comments that are clearly against the law in Canada, else we couldn’t keep operating.

      It really comes down to what the comment is. If you look through the threads on here, a lot of people are already expressing how they feel, or what Canada’s/Canadians’ response should be. Where it might be a problem is if someone says they’re going to do something violent/illegal, or call for someone else to do it

      Hopefully that makes sense?

      • wise_pancake@lemmy.caEnglish
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        2 months ago

        “don’t get the admins subpoenaed” is probably a good rule of thumb.

        (You folks do a great job, I appreciate the community you’ve fostered and tended to here)

    • GrizzlyBur@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Purchase a long rifle and shoot it often. I say this as a staunch pacifist. Having a weapon and using it are two different things. For a thousand reasons, if a genuine war broke out it would likely destroy America. Unfortunately, likely taking Canada with it.

      Regardless, be armed and be prepared. It is not as bleak as you may think, even in the worst case scenario. Best case scenario nothing happens and you take up hunting or target shooting as a hobby!

    • Rentlar@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 months ago

      You will be less likely to be banned. Still, be reasonable, tactful and don’t be a dick about it, even if I get that you came here to express your genuine feelings.

      “Kill [person of interest]” is off limits here and on many other servers, but there are ways you can describe how your frustration in ways that aren’t illegal or personally charged. “Fuck [person of interest]” is nearly universally allowed here. Even if not banned, the outcome of whether you are upvoted to heaven or downvoted to hell will depend on the person and the context.

  • RedDog@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    '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.

  • Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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

  • Clayhopper@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Hello All. I’m another new user hopping over from Reddit. Breaking the ice with this post.

  • Zero@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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!

    • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 months ago

      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.

      • Zero@lemmy.caEnglish
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        2 months ago

        That’s fair. It’s probably too small of a user base to warrant it’s own community today.

        • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
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          2 months ago

          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.

    • Otter@lemmy.caOPMEnglish
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      2 months ago

      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. Vancouver or Metro Vancouver etc.

      • you can keep changing this, but keep it relatively short

      Icon & Banner are recommended

      Sidebar for a description of the community and any rules are recommended

      Under languages, select whichever languages users should select from when posting (ex. Undetermined, English, French)

      Then you can post in places like !communitypromo@lemmy.ca and !newcommunities@lemmy.world so people know about the new community

      Then keep posting to it till it gets rolling :)

      • Zero@lemmy.caEnglish
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        2 months ago

        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.

  • Nemean_lion@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Reddit has become just an absolute dumpster fire lately. Anything even remotely negative and bam you’re banned. Even the gifs i could post got so limited. I’m done with it, and am joining the exodus.

  • imvii@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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.