It seems that a lot of new people have learned about these platforms from a popular post on Reddit. We currently see 78 notifications (and counting) and a pile of applications on piefed.ca

I am pinning this thread on both platforms for new users to pop in to and ask questions. Please give them a warm welcome!

edit: 392 new users on the first day and hundreds more since then, all from one post 🥳

Please let us know how we can help! For example, here are some tips on finding communities: https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/how-to-find-communities The guide says Lemmy, but the steps are the same on Piefed

Since a lot of people arrived here from r/BuyCanadian, maybe you will be interested in !buycanadian@lemmy.ca

🍁 Finding Canadian Communities on Piefed

  • Open a topic from this list: https://piefed.ca/topics
  • Browse that entire topic, or subscribe to individual communities from the sidebar
  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
    19·
    6 days ago

    To all new fellow canucks:

    • Switch your feed to All
      • All shows posts from the worldwide Lemmy/Piefed network. This is equivalent to Reddit
      • Local shows posts only from lemmy.ca or piefed.ca, whichever you’re logged into
      • Subscribed shows posts from communities (subreddits) you’ve subscribed to, from local and the worldwide network
    • Switch your sorting to one of Hot/Active/Scaled
      • Hot is similar to Reddit’s
      • Active is also similar in surfacing actively discussed posts
      • Scaled is like Hot but it also surfaces more posts from smaller communities
    • To curate your feed, subscribe to communities (equiv of subreddit) and switch your feed to Subscribed with Scaled sorting

    A curated list of Canadian communities (subreddits): https://lemmy.ca/post/2890824