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 :)

  • ZeroEnglish
    8·
    3 days ago

    Hi Everyone! I joined today. Have used Lemmy briefly in the past but never got into it fully.

    Only question I have right now is - how does one create a Community? I’d like to start one for my small town to post news, events and open discussions for others to find and join as the server grows.

    Thanks in advance!

    • Avid AmoebaEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      With that said, if there’s no activity in the small community, I’d post directly in !Canada. As we grow and we get more people, I think we’ll naturally break out into the smaller geographical communities. I think this is valid even for provinces at this point.

      • ZeroEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        That’s fair. It’s probably too small of a user base to warrant it’s own community today.

        • Avid AmoebaEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          Can still make it but if you want people to see things related to it, dump 'em in !Canada. It’s what I do for Toronto.

      • ZeroEnglish
        4·
        3 days ago

        Thanks Otter! It is a Canadian small town (Okotoks). I’ll try getting it set up via web this week if I have time! Appreciate the guidance.

    • OtterOPMAEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      Welcome!

      If you open the website in a web browser, you should see a ‘Create Community’ button.

      A more detailed step by step:

      Name: ex. ‘vancouver’

      • it will appear in the link (c/Vancouver), and can’t be changed

      Display Name: ex. Vancouver or Metro Vancouver etc.

      • you can keep changing this, but keep it relatively short

      Icon & Banner are recommended

      Sidebar for a description of the community and any rules are recommended

      Under languages, select whichever languages users should select from when posting (ex. Undetermined, English, French)

      Then you can post in places like [email protected] and [email protected] so people know about the new community

      Then keep posting to it till it gets rolling :)