Welcome New Users!

2 years ago by Otter to c/main

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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rinze 27 points 2 years ago

First of all, thanks for all the work you do. I lived almost 10 years in Canada and having an account here makes me feel warm inside (not on the outside :-) ).

Any idea why the recent influx of new users? May it have anything to do with Reddit planning to put some subreddits behind a paywal?

Thanks again!

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otter 39 points 2 years ago

Welcome! :)

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

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Moonscythe 7 points 2 years ago

All of the above for me!

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