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 :)

    • Shadow@lemmy.caMEnglish
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      7 days ago

      Oooh, that’s a good feature request but not something we could easily do.

        • Otter@lemmy.caOPMEnglish
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          7 days ago

          If you’re on desktop, it might be possible to set up a JavaScript bookmarklet for that. I can take a look tonight.

          You would still open the lemmy.ca link first, but you wouldn’t need to modify the URL manually. You would click on the bookmarklet

          • ehpolitical@lemmy.caEnglish
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            7 days ago

            Thanks, but I don’t want to put you through all that trouble. I’m guessing you’re busy enough already. I’m also getting used to lemmy.ca… starting to feel more at home :)

            • Otter@lemmy.caOPMEnglish
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              6 days ago

              That’s very considerate, thank you :)

              I’ve played with bookmarklets before, so it wasn’t too much trouble. I don’t normally use Alexandrite, but from my quick exploration it seems that Alexandrite URLs are very similar to the default ones, where it just appends alex.lemmy.ca/ to the start. If that is the case, the following steps should work. The steps are for Firefox, but it should be similar on other browsers:

              1. Right-click on the bookmark bar and click Add Bookmark
              2. Put anything you want in the name
              3. In the URL field, paste in this block of code:
              javascript:(function(){
    let currentURL = window.location.href;
    if (currentURL.startsWith('https://lemmy.ca/')) {
        window.location.href = currentURL.replace('https://lemmy.ca/', 'https://alex.lemmy.ca/lemmy.ca/');
    }
})();

              When you are on any lemmy.ca page, clicking on the bookmark should take you to the corresponding alex.lemmy.ca page. You can also make one to go in the opposite direction, with this block of code:

              javascript:(function(){
    let currentURL = window.location.href;
    if (currentURL.startsWith('https://alex.lemmy.ca/lemmy.ca/')) {
        window.location.href = currentURL.replace('https://alex.lemmy.ca/lemmy.ca/', 'https://lemmy.ca/');
    } else if (currentURL === 'https://alex.lemmy.ca/lemmy.ca') {
        window.location.href = 'https://lemmy.ca/';
    }
})();

              Hopefully that works!