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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by otter@lemmy.ca to c/main@lemmy.ca

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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 :)

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[-] senoculum@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 months ago

Bonjour amigos!

[-] Daryl@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 months ago

What exactly is an 'instance'?

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 months ago

Welcome!

I'd recommend looking through these two guides / infographics as they are a good introduction

What is the fediverse

How does Lemmy work, in detail

If you consider the network of email providers, then "gmail" could be considered one "instance" of the network. You can use it as a self-contained service, but the strength comes from being a part of the wider network.

So you can use lemmy.ca as if it was an isolated Canadian version of reddit, but the strength comes from being able to access communities from all over

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[-] imvii@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 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.

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[-] remotelove@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 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?

[-] DistressedDad@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 months ago

I start to respond to a post or comment that I see on NEW. I finish and right before I hit post, I notice the instance/server is completely unrelated to my response and I deleted my post :) - It's an added nuance to Lemmy that takes some getting used to.

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[-] rwczippy@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 months ago

New user question; why is it that I cannot upvote? am I missing something? I tap the arrow and get 'invalid_bot_action' I can assure you I am a real human - I can pass most captchas 😆

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