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 :)

  • Otter@lemmy.caOPMEnglish
    13·
    4 days 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