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 :)

  • DistressedDadEnglish
    1·
    8 hours ago

    The question was “What type of stuff are you buying off Aliexpress?”

    I started responding with “toys, cleaning supplies, phone cases, etc.” And then I noticed I was responding to a post on ** [email protected]**

    So I felt like my response wouldn’t be as helpful or would be off-topic because I was responding on the programming.dev instance.

    Right? That makes sense right? LOL

    • KichaeEnglish
      2·
      4 hours ago

      Sub-forums here expect people from remote sites to comment on them. They’re not just for local users. Most sites aren’t going to have an Ali Express community on them for you to comment on.

      Check the community’s rules before posting, in case it’s very specifically Ali Express discussion for software developers, and also so you know the nuances of that particular community, but don’t feel like you can’t engage with communities on the other side of the fence.

      This whole space is best thought of “This forum I’m a member of, plus all these other things over there that I’d like to see, too!”