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Hi everyone.

There has been a lot of discussion lately about Piefed's rapid growth due to some strategic posts on Reddit, specifically the r/BuyCanadian subbreddit (see here: https://piefed.ca/post/497540). That's great! But I think we need to diversify a bit.

Because, if this growth is to be long-term and sustainable, then one thing our community needs, quite frankly, is more shitposts. Because right now the most active posts on lemmy.ca are links to news articles with serious discussions in the comments. And the memes that do exist are often not very lighthearted. And this sort of content is great! But it doesn't necessarily appeal to the masses.

Think of it: what does your average Jim the Plumber Joe Shmo from Winnipeg or Edmonton want? He wants memes! He wants to laugh! If we are to get more normies on this platform (which is essential for our growth) then we need more shitposts! We need meme pages with lots of engagement! So that is why I am suggesting a new type of Reddit-advertising campaign: one that targets the finest shitposters our Great Nation has to offer. If we can get those guys and gals to join our platform, then we're as golden as a Canada goose.

So the question then becomes, where to these talented shitposters and shitpostees reside? Where can we find them? The answer to that is clear: r/EhBuddyHoser, the beloved Canadian meme page. And what's the best way to advertise on a meme page? Well, through memes of course!

That's right folks, it's time we take our viral marketing campaign to the next level.

This is a monumental task, and it will require input from funny Canadians residing in all corners of the fediverse. But, in the spirit of getting the ball rolling, I have already thrown together a prototype. (Yes, I know its crappy, but it's just a prototype; feedback welcome.)

If you have the time, please also reply with your own memes in the comments, where we can critique them, build them, grow them, and eventually use them for our viral marketing campaign.

Finally, we will also need a brave soul with an established Reddit account to venture into r/EhBuddyHoser and shitpost on our behalf. We need someone to shitpost not just for our entire community, but for our entire country. We need someone to shitpost for Canada. Do we have any volunteers?

With the recent willingness of the US Government to pressure its tech agencies into revealing user data without a proper judicial warrant, we've decided it's overdue for us migrate away from Cloudflare.

We'll be transitioning our sites over to https://deflect.ca/ over the next week or so, starting with pixelfed first before doing lemmy and piefed.

I hope to be able to do this without any noticeable downtime, but it is a major config change that will require some backend changes as well. I'll make an announcement before/after and you can always check https://status.fedecan.ca/

Feel free to help out any lost redditors who might need some help and guide them.

I made this post today, https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1quso40/comment/o3evucz/ It got 150k+ views, piefed.social etc. has seen a big spike in users.

If possible I want to copy-paste that recipe in r/BuyCanadian tomorrow to get more Canadians onboard here. But I need a nice image of a graph for the post to work.

Anyone know where I can get a graph like that? Admins?

Nothing pressing in terms of questions or concerns, but I was just wondering how things are at Fedecan and with the instance(s)? It feels like it's been a hot minute since the last update (big or small), so I thought I'd show my interest in knowing how things are going.

We were still on 0.19.13 so I've bumped us up to 0.19.15

• Changes for 0.9.15: https://lemmy.ca/post/57400474
• Changes for 0.9.14: https://lemmy.ca/post/56551342

Since early December, someone has created 65+ accounts with variations of the same name, and they have used those accounts for vote manipulation.

We reached out to the admin of the instance 4 weeks ago, recommending that they enable registration applications, upgrade the captcha difficulty, and/or require an email address to prevent this. We have not received a reply.

When we checked the logs this week, we saw that a new chain of accounts was created. This is creating extra work for our admin team to find and ban these accounts.

Defederation will block the instance, their communities, and their users from everyone on lemmy.ca and piefed.ca. Similarly, it will block content from lemmy.ca and piefed.ca from going to their instance.

Currently, less than 10 users from lemmy.ca are subscribed to a community there, the majority of which are subscribed to 1 community max.

You can view their communities here: https://lemmy.org/communities

Please share your feedback about this action in this thread.

We will be closing the census this week, on January 15th, 2026.

Link: https://survey.fedecan.ca//s/cmjcnqzgd0002th01dh6naqm6

A lot has changed since our last census in 2023! We would like to take another opportunity to learn about our growing community.

Everyone is welcome to fill out this survey! While this census is being run by the admins of lemmy.ca, sh.itjust.works, piefed.ca, and pixelfed.ca, you do not need to have an account on these instances, and you do not need to be located in Canada. If you do have an account on one of our instances, you can indicate that on the census to be included in those separate graphs/visualizations.

No question is mandatory. You may skip any question by either selecting “no answer (skip this question)”, or by leaving the question blank.

Some questions will be hidden depending on your selections. For example, the Pixelfed specific questions will be hidden if you don't select that as one of the platforms you use.

Sections:

• Section 1: Location
• Section 2: Demographics
• Section 3a: Instance Usage (Forum/Threadiverse)
• Section 3b: Instance Usage (Pixelfed)
• Section 4: Feedback / Closing questions

When results are ready, we will share them on our website and with posts on the main/meta communities in our instances.

The questions were created with help from @Dave@lemmy.nz, based on the questions from their census this year. The banner image was made with icons from flaticon.com.

Due to some issues with the survey platform, you won't be able to click on external URLs while completing the census. You can access those links here:

• Speed test: https://fast.com/
• Ethnicity options: https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/ref/dict/app/index-eng.cfm?ID=a2_5
• Education options: https://canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/settle-canada/education/school-types/post-secondary.html

Link: https://survey.fedecan.ca//s/cmjcnqzgd0002th01dh6naqm6

The census will close on January 15th, 2026.

A lot has changed since our last census in 2023! We would like to take another opportunity to learn about our growing community.

Everyone is welcome to fill out this survey. You do not need to be located in Canada, and you do not need to have an account on one of our platforms. If you do have an account on lemmy.ca, sh.itjust.works, piefed.ca, and/or pixelfed.ca, you can indicate that on the census in order to be included in those separate graphs/visualizations.

No question is mandatory. You may skip any question by either selecting “no answer (skip this question)”, or by leaving the question blank. Some questions will be hidden depending on your selections. For example, the Pixelfed specific questions will be hidden if you don't select that as one of the platforms you use.

Sections:

• Section 1: Location
• Section 2: Demographics
• Section 3a: Instance Usage (Forum/Threadiverse)
• Section 3b: Instance Usage (Pixelfed)
• Section 4: Feedback / Closing questions

When results are ready, we will share them on our website and with posts on:

• !main@lemmy.ca
• !main@sh.itjust.works
• !main@piefed.ca
• A pinned post on pixelfed.ca

The questions were created with help from @Dave@lemmy.nz, based on the questions from their census this year :)

EDIT: We've made the links unclickable (see comments). The census is long, so I didn't want people to lose their progress near the end. The links are here:

• Speed test: https://fast.com/
• Ethnicity options: https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/ref/dict/app/index-eng.cfm?ID=a2_5
• Education options: https://canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/settle-canada/education/school-types/post-secondary.html

I see links to 'that site' owned by 'that billionaire' all the time, be it in posts or comments...

Is it possible to auto-suggest using xcancel.com instead, if direct links are in posts or comments, or even auto-fix them?

Barely enough time in the day to develop new features? Quit using your "full time job" to post genocide denial and Stalin apologism.

I can't remember the last time Lemmy added a new feature that actually benefits admins or users. The Piefed devs are constantly coming out with new features, maybe it's because they don't waste the whole day banning people for left wing political views like saying genocide is bad.

Does anyone know of any useful extensions for Lemmy? The site is pretty usable without any extensions, but that's what I thought about Reddit before I learned about Reddit Enhancement Suite many years ago.

Hey y'all, keep an eye out for trolls. I have the impression there are a few accounts on here with users whose only purpose is to instigate others and get angry reactions out of people.

Are there any way to report these users? I haven't found a report button for users specifically.

If I follow these links from Summit correctly I'm banned from news@lemmy.world & politicalmemes@lemmy.world

I don't know why, I'm usually a pretty cool uncontroversial dude.

Any way to find out how I got banned? Or at least verify it's legit?

Apologies if this is the wrong place. How do I create a community? There’s a community called NotTheOnion that is great at posting News articles that seem satirical but are true. There is another community called LeopardsAteMyFace which highlights dumb fucks getting what they asked for. I want to combine the two into a new community called NoFuckingShit. A place to post news articles that completely miss the point and state the obvious.

We received a message noting that the previous mod has not been active in some time, and that there is interest in building up this community. The admin team is hoping to add a few mods to the community during this process.

If you are interested in moderating this community, please reply in this thread.

@shadow@lemmy.ca made the following updates this week.

For lemmy.ca:

• photon.lemmy.ca has been updated to v2.1.1
• blorp.lemmy.ca has been added

For piefed.ca:

• photon.piefed.ca has been added
• blorp.piefed.ca has been added 

We have a guide about the frontends here: https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/alternative-uis

We haven't updated the guide with these recent changes yet. In the meantime, you can learn more about Photon and Blorp in these communities:

• !photon@lemdro.id
• !blorp@lemmy.zip

Both frontends have support for multiple accounts. You can also log in to other instances (not lemmy.ca / piefed.ca) if you wanted to.

Enjoy!

Anyone else getting these donation ads? Was it just shoved onto an update by the Lemmy devs, or is this coming from the instance admins? It doesn't seem to show on clean browser sessions to lemmy.ca

Hello, World!

https://fedidb.com/servers/maga.place

We're now running 0.19.13

Lots of little bug fixes: https://join-lemmy.org/news/2025-09-10_-_Lemmy_Release_0.19.13

Every time I post something for sale on Craigslist/Kijiji/FB I get reminded that this is a use case we should be able to handle. We could also offer a non-profit alternative for wider audiences instead of generating revenue for Meta. It could also serve as another channel for new users to our Fediverse, people not necessarily interested in social media alternatives. The American corporate services won't be getting any better over time so an alternative is likely to be needed.

This project seems to be implementing a federated marketplace. If a Fedecaner finds themselves with even more time to donate than they already have and a similar desire, maybe that could be the next service to standup. :D

Thoughts?

In order to comply with the bylaw, they would need to hire someone on-call who could respond to emergencies within an hour, and who could check the carbon monoxide and smoke detectors after every stay.

Wow, you mean you need to have someone who can actually respond to issues, particularly in a time-sensitive manner? Imagine that.

Hotels/Motels have extra fees they need to pay to the municipality, why should short term rentals be any different?

Just curious, I don't know if this feature would be in fedecans or lemmy's court to implement. I just know that it would be quite helpful to further develop communities.

If so, I hope it works with old.lemmy. I can't stand any other formats and it already frustrates me that certain features don't work with this format.