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2025 Fedecan Instance Census is now open (survey.fedecan.ca)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by otter@lemmy.ca to c/main@lemmy.ca

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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:

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

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[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Just so you know, when you click the speed test link, it opens it in the same page as the survey and you lose your progress on the survey.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Good to know, we just added some warnings about it. We're trying out FormBricks for the first time with this survey, and this is one of the issues we'll need to look into

edit: We've made the links unclickable in the meantime. 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

[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 days ago

In this context, I always open links in a new tab because it's quite a common issue with survey software.