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 too many registration applications for me to keep this up to date.

I am pinning this thread on both platforms for new users to pop in to and ask questions. Please give them a warm welcome!

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

🍁 Finding Canadian Communities on Piefed

  • Open a topic from this list: https://piefed.ca/topics
  • Browse that entire topic, or subscribe to individual communities from the sidebar

edit: 392 new users on the first day and hundreds more since then, all from one post 🥳

          • Otter@lemmy.caOPMEnglish
            15·
            16 days ago

            It’s also more genuine and transparent. Mod actions are public and votes are auditable, out of necessity for how the software works.

            On Reddit the votes are private, fuzzed, and people buying upvotes/downvotes have been a consistent problem for years.

            If you get 10 upvotes on here, you’re much more likely to have reached 10 real human beings than on Reddit.

        • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
          10·
          16 days ago

          I mean when you get 5 upvotes here, you should feel like you got 50 upvotes on Reddit. Because of our smaller population.

              • ageedizzle@piefed.caEnglish
                2·
                8 days ago

                Okay well thats better than nothing I guess. Blorp is also a good app that supports Piefed. Don’t know which country it originates from though

                • moseschrute@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  2·
                  7 days ago

                  Blorp dev here. I’m based out of US. But since I actually lose money on Blorp, I would argue you are kinda supporting Canada indirectly. If that’s not enough to convince you, I would consider moving to Canada if you’re accepting applications.

                  • ageedizzle@piefed.caEnglish
                    1·
                    7 days ago

                    Hi! Your app is great. I’ve tried a lot of different ones but yours is my favourite.

                    As per moving to Canada, I’m sure if you applied at some Canadian tech companies you could get a work visa. Alternatively you could move up north, where there’s a lot of job opportunities and you’re more likely to get permanent residency (but it’s very cold up there tho, Winter averages of below -30C in some places, so prepare yourself). If you’re going for citizenship then things will be a lot easier if you learn to speak French.