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
Sorry to anyone that might be waiting for a reply from me on reddit or on here, I’ll be away for a few hours. You are in great hands here with the rest of the admin team and the wider community :)
I want to add to new users, to make sure to check Hot, Top every 6 hours, Scaled, Active, etc. if they aren’t seeing interesting things. For Lemmy, Active shows up as the default and it comes across as the least active.
And switching from Local to All lets you see the stream of posts from all the other Lemmy/Piefed/Etc. communities worldwide.