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Welcome New Users! (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by otter@lemmy.ca to c/main@lemmy.ca

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We have gotten a lot of new signups over the past few days, and we're all very excited to have you joining us! You'll find that people are more than happy to help you get started and learn how to use the site.

If you feel up for it, you can introduce yourself or ask questions below!

We have put together some resources to help new users get started:

You can also read:

These guides were published very recently, and we will be updating them over time. If you find that something is confusing or missing, please let us know and we can improve them further.

For an organized list of Canadian communities (provinces/territories, Cities / Local , Sports, Schools, BuyCanadian, CanadaPolitics etc.), see this post on !Canada@lemmy.ca. You can also ask about communities in places like !CommunityPromo@lemmy.ca.

We also encourage you to check out !NewToLemmy@lemmy.ca, so that others can help you / learn from your questions.

Welcome to Lemmy :)

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[–] otter@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Welcome!

If you open the website in a web browser, you should see a 'Create Community' button.

A more detailed step by step:

Name: ex. 'vancouver'

it will appear in the link (c/Vancouver), and can't be changed

Display Name: ex. Vancouver or Metro Vancouver etc.

you can keep changing this, but keep it relatively short

Icon & Banner are recommended

Sidebar for a description of the community and any rules are recommended

Under languages, select whichever languages users should select from when posting (ex. Undetermined, English, French)

Then you can post in places like !communitypromo@lemmy.ca and !newcommunities@lemmy.world so people know about the new community

Then keep posting to it till it gets rolling :)