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 [email protected]. You can also ask about communities in places like [email protected].

We also encourage you to check out [email protected], so that others can help you / learn from your questions.

Welcome to Lemmy :)

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    6 days ago

    A Friendica server would be amazing!

    I feel like the similarity to Facebook is way overstated. I wonder how much that association hurts Friendica since even people who use FB a lot think it’s super lame. It’s the most similar to FB compared to others but it’s really the Swiss Army knife of the Fediverse – and the most powerful tool for accessing it. Coming from Mastodon, and even the Misskey forks, it’s crazy what you can do with Friendica.

    A Canadian server would be incredible but it’d also be such a benefit to Friendica to have more servers run by people who know what they’re doing.

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      5 days ago

      If you have time, could you share more about what speciically makes Frendica so powerful.

      Im only just dipping my toes into fediverse and I’m super curious.

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        5 days ago

        Rather than list features, I think the best place to start is this incredible article by Elena Rossini. She’s just such a great communicator and approaches it as a new user, covering many of the biggest features. There are other great resources linked in the article too.

        I’d be happy to help with any other Qs you might have too if I can.