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: 392 new users on the first day and hundreds more since then, all from one post ๐ฅณ
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
๐ 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
Is there any difference between lemmy.ca and piefed.ca?
They run Lemmy and Piefed. Other than the differences in software and some of the differences in features that come with it, they work together, can cross-read, cross-post, cross-comment, etc.
That's what I thought. Thank you. I didn't see any info on the differences or similarities.
Piefed has a few more features than Lemmy at the moment. AFAIK many of them are expected to land in Lemmy 1.0 which is currently undergoing testing.
We have some information here, but that page is already out of date since Piefed is pretty stable now.
https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/fedecan/our-platforms
It's been harder to make an accurate comparison as both projects are under active development and either have, or are working on many of the same features.
The extra features on Piefed that I personally use are scheduled posts and topic lists.