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: 384 392 new users today, 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

    • OtterOPMAEnglish
      18·
      1 day ago

      We’re also configuring our server to handle the load. It definitely has the capacity for it, but there may be intermittent outages as we restart things.

      Judging by the time of our comment, I think we were making a config change right around when you made that comment

        • bdonvr@thelemmy.clubEnglish
          3·
          23 hours ago

          I’d be curious on this too. First instinct would be Lemmy has to be more efficient with Rust over Piefed with Python. But I’d like to actually know that rather than assume.