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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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[–] Greg@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 days ago (4 children)

As an immigrant to Canada, I wasn't sure how to answer the "where are you from?" question. I consider myself Canadian but when someone asks where I'm from I assume they've picked up on my accent and are asking where my accent is from. So I answered as though I had been asked IRL. I hope that doesn't skew the results.

[–] Cheesus@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I also wasn't sure how to answer, as a Canadian who lives abroad.

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

As an immigrant Canadian who now lives abroad, I also had a hard time answering that question.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In Toronto, the question "Where are you from?" typically means what's your country of origin. If you respond with "Canada" cause you've lived here for a long time, it's often followed up with "Oh yes, but where are you really from?" In vaccuum that all sounds a bit problematic but in TO more than half of the population is foreign-born so it's an acceptable request for multicultural exchange. 😅

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago

In Toronto, the "Where are you from?" Question is also correctly responded to with your neighbourhood or nearest major intersection. E.g. Danforth and Pape.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So this was actually intentional, and @Dave@lemmy.nz and I discussed how we could word it in order to let people pick the option that made the most sense to them.

I think a lot of people are in a similar situation as you, and would be making a similar choice

[–] Greg@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

Great, that means I got the answer right 😁

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

Not an immigrant. Born Canadian with a Scottish last name. I have no Scottish culture in my life, just Canadian culture. Where I'm from: Canada. What is my ethnicity: Scottish. I think.